PRIVATE RACES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 23, 13 December 1919, Page 5

PRIVATE RACES.

RUNNING k TOTAL I&ATOR.

FINES OF £2O.

Melbourne, December 2. . Afc the Echuca Police Court, John O'Connor, James Spruhan, and James P. Lock wood were each charged with ■ , ha unlawfully conducted a totalEchiica Picnic , Race meeiihga on October 15 and 16 ~' respectively. ' ' f "'" " Grace and Loas stated' , j n $f unsuccesfifully.applied for ' adinitWnce to the course, beiug told '#h#t*, the/..meeting was private. The ',. constables waited their opportunity, „ fence, .and, mingled, witH ''the cfowd. " The. three defendants ; . were' conducting, a system, of betting which .'the police authorities main.taingd was, to all intents and purpos- ' es, a ■Sit*. ■'..'"'■ In the first case against O'Connor, the magistrate, dismissed the information. In the other five oases the _ niaaristrate ordered a fine of £2O in each instance,,