FRAUD ALLEGED.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15901, 12 April 1912, Page 7

FRAUD ALLEGED.

TELEGRAPHIC BETTING CASE. [Pee Press Association.] BLENHEIM, April 11. Edmund John Walsh, grocer, and John Vernon Binlev telegraphist, appeared at the Magistrate’s Court to-day charged with conspiracy with intent to defraud the firms of Ross and Bradshaw and Scott and Martindale, of Wellington, of sums amounting to £34 and £SO 103 respectively on certain betting transactions. It was alleged ..that Binley arranged that Walsh should go to the Wanganui races, leaving signed telegrams to the firms mentioned containing the names of horses likely to win at Wanganui, tho telegrams to be handed in prior to the timo of the race. Walsh telegraphed the winners to an address •at Blenheim, while Binley watched the Wanganui wires, held back the telegrams to the abovementioned firms, erased the horses’ names and substituted the name of the winning horse. The firms’ suspicions were aroused, and they made inquiries resulting in the prosecution. Inspector Ellison is appearing for the police. The case is prooeeding.