FRAUD ON BOOKMAKERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3677, 12 November 1912, Page 3

FRAUD ON BOOKMAKERS.

- ■ ■ THE BLENHEIM CASES. [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM] BLENHEIM, Nav. 11. In thj Supreme Court on charges of fraud on bookmakers Edmund- John WaLh 'V) and John Vernon Binley (20) werr xvd guilty on all counts. The Jo.' in giving sentence, laid stress on ,oe good character of the accused and the fact- that they had been locked up several times and the cir'•"mstanees of the breakdown of the £ ~er trial. The jury’s recommendtK.bn also weighed and he thought the ,nds of justice would be served if the prisoners were not sentenced to a. term of imprisonment. The proper emirs'- under the cireumstancs was +e irru'-r a fine and to order the costs to bo paid by instalments. Each priso"“- was fined £25. the imprisonment till the fines are paid not to exceed three months. Walsh was ordered to pay £2O costs and Binley £lO costs. 'Five weeks wore given to pay the fines.

The university of Southern Californio has instituted a eliair of automobile science, being the first univorsitv in the country to recognise ill” :raportanee of the motor car as a subject of technical study and investigation from the engineering standpoint. Mrs Mala-prop, who, it will be remembered, once said that a pantry was a place for keeping pants, and a vestry was a place where vests were made, now shows herself to bo up "with the times, according to an exchange, \by supplying a. questioner with the information that “an apiary is where they keep apes, and an aviary is where they keep airships.”