TRESPASSING ON RACECOURSE.
BLENHEIM, April 28. Arthur William Holmes was charged in the Magistrate’s Court with that, being a person excluded from racecourses by the regulations, he trespassed on Waterlea during the February meeting of the Marlborough Racing Club. The police gave as the grounds for exclusion defendant’s conviction for an offence committed as a vouth of 17 years of age, and they alleged that defendant, a taxi driver, was carrying two reputed bookmakers to and from tne course throughout three days, and supplying them with information regarding the results of dividends. Corn. ol warmly criticised the police methods in delving into defendant’s past and parading before the public a trivial offence committed when the defendant was a youth. Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., in convicting and discharging the defendant, held that the police had failed to prove the most substantial allegations that defendant was assisting bookmakers. The Magistrate e resed regret that such an old conviction should be resurrected and said that it was a pity that some time limit could not be observed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 63
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