SUPREME COURT.
THE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY
[By Telegraph .Press Association.] Christchurch, last night,
Charles Ross was sentenced to two years for forging and uttering. Tho Judge remarked on the frequency of this class of crime, due to the facility with which blank loose cheques can be obtained, and said persons asking for such should bo referred to their banker if they represented that they had an account. John Mowat. a commercial traveller, and Charles Frederick Winstanlcy, telegraphist, was charged with having in April last conspired to defraud Edward Patterson, a bookmaker, by sending a hotting telegram after tho race had been run on which the bet was made, and antetiming the telegram. They were also charged with having cheated in betting. Similar evidence was adduced to that
given in the lower Court. Later.—Charles Winstanlcy, telegraph operator, and John Mouatt, commercial ‘traveller, were convicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud Patterson Bros., bookmakers, of W ellington : and of cheating in betting on sport (horse-racing). A sentence of six months' imprisonment each was passed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 182, 9 August 1901, Page 3
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