BOOKMAKERS’ CARDS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144071, 16 April 1913, Page 3

BOOKMAKERS’ CARDS.

A CHRISTCHURCH PROSECUTION. Per Press Association. ' CHRISTCHURCH, April 15. At the Magistrate’s Court Peter Grant and W. Whelan were charged with having assisted to publish a, bet- 1 ting chart without an imprint of the name being attached. defendants pleaded not guilty. Edward Bales, - sergeant and gaoler stationed at Rotorua, said that on February 24 he received a prisoner named Thomas Wilson on remand. Wilson was in custody till March 4 and four letters (produced) came to him. Witness opened them in the prisoner’s presence. One letter contained a double betting slip for the Wanganui races, and a similar slip for Dunedin races. The envelope had on the outside “If unclaimed return to Box. 715, Christchurch.” The second letter contained similar cards, and a third One contained a double chart for the Easter and Autumn Handicaps, and also a chart, for the Wanganui Cup and Flying Handicap. Chief Detective Bishop drew attention to the stamps on the letters,, which wfere evidently put on by a stamp machine. ■■ . Arthur Wilson, a Maori, stated, that he received, whilst in Mount Eden Gaol, the letters ; produced by the previous witness. They were froni Barnett and Grant, Christchurch, with whom witness had done business.

Alexander Wildey, printer, stated that-he could not swear that he printed the matter' on the envelopes in. vthicii the cards were enclosed. P. S. H. Chambers, clerk in the Chief Post Office, stated,, that the stamp on the envelope produced was Barnett and Grant’s, and was done with a machine leased to that firm. The case for the prosecution was closed, and the case was adjourned tilt to-morrow.