RACING SENSATION

Evening Star, Issue 17919, 15 March 1922, Page 7

RACING SENSATION

THE PEEL CASE. r.-sss Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 13. The trial of Mrs Peel has commenced at the Old Bailey. The prosecution stated that. Mrs Peel had an income of £7,000 a year, and allowed her husband £2OO a month.- Counsel incidentally drew attention to -a mysterious £2OO paid into the bankino account of Mr Dow (sharebroker). -A. and N.Z. Cable. MRS PEEL ACQUITTED. MALE DEFENDANT RECEIVES TWELVE MONTHS. LONDON, March 14. (Received March 15, at 10 a.m.) Mrs Peel was acquitted, Mr Justice Darling holding the doctrine that when a woman committed a crime like this in the physical presence of her husband the law prescribed that she had acted under his coercion. Peel was .sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in the second division.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Captain Owen Peel and his wifo were charged in connection with the despatch of i'riity-live telegrams to various bookmakers" backing Paragon in the Duke of York Stakes, the prosecution alleging Unit the Peels ascertained by telephone that the horse had won before they presented the telegrams at a countryside post oQico. Home bookmakers paid out tho bets, while others questioned the time of lodgement, and requested inquiries. It is further alleged that Peel induced the postmaster to enter a false time of receipt on the messages. Counsel stressed tho point that I::.-' Postmaster-General was prosecuting lil'.i ;ni.-e the bookmakers were reluctant, na tiu' Pools were able to introduce clients lor business to the bookmakers.]