ALLEGED GATING HOUSE
PALMERSTON NORTH CASE. “INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.” (By Telegraph.—-Special to “Times.”) PALMERSTON N., May 29. Reserved judgment was delivered hj Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., to-day, in the alleged gaming-house charges preferred against Robert William Davidson. In one of the charges the whole case rested merely on whether or not the evidence submitted by the police as to various messages received by them over the telephone was admissible or not. The magistrate contended that they were mere statements by third parties over the telephone. Asking for Davidson, and asking to make bets were not admissible as against Davidson. It was not evidence of actual betting by defendant or of betting on premises. He said, touching the other evidence, about the finding of race cards, with the dividends marked, and racing books, that it showed nothing further than that defendant kept himself posted with the information. The magistrate, in summing- up, said that the evidence was insufficient to show that a breach had been committed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11222, 30 May 1922, Page 6
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