TROTTING CASES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 7 May 1924, Page 5

TROTTING CASES.

"RINGING-IN" ALLEGED

TWO ACCUSED ON TRIAL

(BY TEL.EGRAFH PRESS ASSOCIATION ) a. « DUNEDIN, May 6. t l c Su Preme Court the trial of John Richards and Walter Leonard .James Cameron on charges of conspiring to defraud the public and the Gore Racing Club by representing the trotter The Dingo to be Kin^sdale, was commenced at noon, the Crown Prosecutor's address occupying over an hour. There are twenty witnesses in the case, which is expected to last over to-morrow.

His Honor Mr. Justice Reed intimated that this wa s a case in which it was wise for the jury to be kept together until the hearing of the case was concluded. The jury were therefore locked up for the nign"t. The Crown Prosecutor addressed the court at length, and evidence was given for the Crown by Patrick McNeiil a tamer at Lauriston; Johnson Fitzgerald, postmistress at Dunback; Francis Walter Allan, railway porter at Waitati; Henry Albert White, chemist at Dunedm; Harold Outram, chemist at Dunedin; Constable Connor, of Waitati; Isaac McQueen, railway porter at Lauder; Alfred George Austin, clerk in the railway goods office at Dunedin ; Harry Logic James, secretary of the Dunedin Jockey Club; John Donald Forbes, secretary of the Oamaru Trotting Club; Frank Youn«;, secretary of the Gore Racing Cl-iK; David Brittan Cameron, farmer of Outram; Henry Thomas Trevenna, saddler at Dunedin; and William Francis James, totalisator proprietor.