SEQUEL TO BETTING RAID

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1930, Page 9

SEQUEL TO BETTING RAID

iTELEPHONES INTERFERED WITH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. Arthur Joseph Yeo was charged at the Napier Magistrate’s Court, before Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., to-day with wilfully interfering with telephone wires at his residence in Roslyn Road. His wife was similarly charged. The male accused elected to be tried by jury but his wife, Mona Yeo, elected to be tried summarily. Evidence was given that Mrs. Yeo was the owner of a house and the lessee of two telephones. An employee of the Post and Telegraph Department said he had found wires leading from leadin wires attached to two cup hooks in the bathroom. If a piece of metal were placed across the wires at this point the telephones would be put out of order. He had also found' that wires had been tapped between insulators and the lightning guard led down through a recess by a chimney and connected with two switches in a cupboard in the kitehen. By anyone operating these switches the phones could be rendered inoperative or normal at will. Evidence was given to the effect that after readjustment of the phones several messages in connection with betting had been received by DetectiveSergeant Fitzgibbon, who also described the wiring system. The detectivesergeant also stated in answer to Hifi Worship that the charge had been brought against Mrs. Yeo because she was the owner of tile house and lessee of the telephones’. The discovery of the interference with the wires was made during a police raid in connection with the bookmaking charge on which Yeo was recently heavily fined. No evidence was given for the defence and the magistrate reserved hie decision.