COURT NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 22 November 1927, Page 6

COURT NEWS.

WOMEN BOOKMAKERS. (Pres® A Y AUCKLAND, Nov. 21. Mary Smith and Hilda Jane Wigg pleaded guilty to bookmaking at Otahuliu Trots. Smith was fined forty pounds, or two months’ imprisonment. Wigg, this being her first attempt, was fined ten pounds, or twenty-one days’ imprisonment. A charge of carrying on the business of a bookmaker on August 6 was preferred against Harry Marks in the Police Court to-day. William Henry Bonner said he took a double from Marks at £2O to 5s on Beau Cavalier in the Grand National Steeplechase and Wharneliffc in the Grand National Hurdles. Both horses won, but when asked about paying out, Marks said he would pay when he pleased. They had an argument, and witness said he punched the accused. The following day he again asked the accused to pay hnn, and accused said witness was anything but a gentleman, because he called at his house for the money. Evidence was given by the police regarding other alleged bookmaking transaction on the part of the accused. Accused pleaded not guilty, and reserved his defence, and was committed to the Supreme Court for'trial. FASHIONABLE WOMAN’S THEFTS. AUCKLAND, November 21. At the Police Court, a fashionably dressed young woman, Enid Rachel Halm, 23, was charged with the theft of a snuff box, valued at £2O, and £l7 in money, belonging respectively to William Goodhall and lan Keith. She pleaded guilty. Chief Detective Cummings said that accused arrived from Sydney on October 4th, and took rooms at one of tho leading hotels. She "was requested to leave this and three other leadinghotels on account of her behaviour and too many male friends. The thefts with which she was charged were from business premises. She was convicted and remanded for sentence, pending information from Australia. MEMORIAL SITE DISPUTED. WANGANUI, November 21. Wh "n the balance sheet was published, on the completion of the City War Memorial Tower on Durie Hill, the name of W. J. Polson was shown as the donor of the land on which the Tower was built. After throe years, the matter was given a new aspect to-day, when Polson and another claimed £413 from Hope Gibbons, a former Mayor of Wanganui, for tho land, which, it was striked, was not a gift, but was sold, Gibbons allegedly having given an undertaking to accept personal responsibility for the . e.moifnt. Gibbons was a member of the Memorial Committee. Judge Ostler reserved his decision.