ALLEGED RINGING-IN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18702, 7 May 1924, Page 8

ALLEGED RINGING-IN.

THE KINGSLAND CASE. (

SUPREME COURT " HEARING. - . | s [BY telegraph.—press association.] ; '■; DUNEDIN. Tuesday ; A; In the Supreme Court to-day John Richards and Walter Leonard : James y- ;? Cameron were charged wish having, conspired to defraud the public and the { Gore Racing • Club by representing •a >; plf trotter called The Dingo to be Kingsdale. This is the first of a series of alleged - ''ringing-in" cases to be heard .in the /. Dominion. There are some 20 witnesses to give evidence on behalf of the Crown ?. and the case is likely to last the whole of to-morrow. His Honor, Mr. Justice Reed, said it was a case in which it r would be wise for the jury to be kept together until the hearing was concluded. ' The jury was consequently locked up for " the night. ■■■•' /||g The Crown Prosecutor addressed the Court at length and evidence was give® folll by Patrick McNeill (farmer, Lauriston)# Johann Fitzgerald (postmistress, Punback), Francis Walter Allan (railway i-X porter, Waiati), . Henry Albert Whi'3e (chemist, Dunedin), Harold Outran $jj| (chemist, Dunedin), Constable Connor (Waiati), Isaac McQueen (railway porter, Lauder), Alfred George Austin (clerk■ in the railway goods office, Danedin), Barry .*£o Logie James (secretary of ■the Dunedin Jockey Club), John Donald Forbes • (sec- , retary of the Oamaru Trotting Club)> Frank Young (secretary of the Gore Ris- ; ing Club), David Brittan Cameron (far mer, Outram), Henry Thomas Treveona (saddler, Dunedin), and Wm. Francis V, James (totalisator proprietor).