BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 5

BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS

PAYMENTS TO POLICE BETTING RAIDS INQUIRY SYDNEY, April 16. Before the commission of inquiry into the police methods of conducting raids on premises suspected of illegal betting operations, Alfred Ingram, who admitted having been repeatedly convicted and fined for illegal hotel and street betting in North Sydney, corroborated the evidence given on March 30 by Mr. E. L. Sanders, a Government member of the Legislative Assembly, who had produced a statement from Ingram alleging that Ingram had paid Sergeant Jennings, of North Sydney, £2O a month for nearly a year in order to enjoy immunity from prosecution for illegal betting. Ingram declared that his earnings over six years as a starting price operator amounted to £BOO yearly. He had now given up that occupation. Cross-examined, Ingram said that Sergeant Jennings had advised him to take a shop and bet there instead of in the street or an hotel. He rented a shop, yet Sergeant Jennings continued to persecute him.

Mr. Bradley, K.C., who is assisting the commission, intimated that he. had received information about a case at Port Macnuarie, which reflected seriously on the police. It would be alleged that a man pleaded guilty to betting charges and was convicted. He appealed, and the conviction was set aside owing to the false evidence of two sergeants and a constable and two police agents involved.