Jockey Found Guilty Of Theft Of Totalisator Ticket

Wanganui Chronicle, 2 November 1950, Page 5

Jockey Found Guilty Of Theft Of Totalisator Ticket

PALMERSTON N., Last Nigh t (PA) —“I doubt, whether the standard of honesty on racecourses is so low that people can pick up tickets of considerable value belonging to someone else and cash them. If that be the current view the sooner it is replaced by another view the better it will be for all concerned.” These remarks were made by Mr Justice Adams in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North after counsel from Auckland (Mr K. C. Arkins) had submitted in his address to a jury that, it was a common practice for people to search through discarded totalisator tickets on racecourses for dividend-bearing tickets which may have been thrown away by investors. He suggested to the jury that the search for dividend-bearing tickets was followed by large numbers of people, who found it a lucrative pastime. The case was an unusual one in [which a licensed jockey, Raymond Reginald Bennett, married, aged 44, formerly of Marton but now of Auckland, was charged with the theft of a 10s doubles totalisator ticket on the winning combination La Modelle-Lord Kenneth, which at. the Foxton Racing Club’s meeting on August 26 returned a dividend of £llB3 15s 6d for £l. The jury, after a retirement of only 20 minutes, returned a verdict of guilty, and Bennett was remanded for sentence.