SUPREME COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXVIII, 21 June 1912, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

BLENHEIM SESSIONS,

BY Tfcr.EGBAPH-PB.F.-3 ASSOCIATION,

BLENHEIM, June 20. In the Supreme Court the Grand Jury brought down true bills against Binley and Walsh in connection with the telegraph betting cases, and delivered the following presentment: "That as bookmftking and bookmakers in the present state of the law arc illegal, steps should be taken to prevent the Telegraph Department being utilised by bookmakers and their clients to carry on bettmg." Charles Colin Walter Wilkan, aged Zo, tor stealing a cheque and forgino- an endorsement thereon, was found'guilty with a recommendation to mercy on •account pf prisoner not understanding the gravity of tlie offence. The Judo-e deferred sentence, till the morning. A oharcre of conspiring to defraud Scott and Martindale nnd Ross and Bradshaw by the ure of tele-rams, gainst Edw in ,Tol m n and.. John Vernon Binley, ;s proceeding. The latter is a telegraph, operator, and altered the names of horses on telegrams endorsed by W alsh to winners of races