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Police Court—Port Adelaide^
Tuesday, November 30.
(Before Wr. .T. H. Sinclair, S.lf.)
John McGaffin, was charged hy Sub-Inspector
Fraser with having been at the Cheltenham Race
course on November 20, for the purpose of
betting:, other than by means of the totalizator
provided. Mr. H. T. Word appeared for the de
fendant, who pleaded "Sot guilty."
Detective John Ernest Soblett, of Adelaide,
said he saw the defendant in the grand stand
enclosure at Cheltenham racecourse on Sov=m
ber 23, a race day. The witness was standing
about 10 yards from the defendant, and he saw
four persons separately approach him and ap
pear to say something to him. . He had a card
in his hand (a portion of. which was produced),
and appeared to write Something on it. One
person appeared to- hand him something. Their
hands met, and he appeared to put something
in his coat pocket. When the witness approached
him be handed the card to a man who
■was near. The witness attempted to seize the
card and the man tore it in pieces which fell i
on the ground. He recovered three pieces of it,
and the other portion he could not obtain. Ho
arrested the defendant, who said he had • had ai
lot of trouble lately, and had lost his wife. He
hoped there would not Ibe any trouble made over
the incident. The witness told him he was
very sorry for hirn, hut he had to do his duty.
By Mr. Ward—He ibelieved the card produced
was the one the defendant was writing on, be
cause he did not lose sight of it all the time he
was approaching him. He picked up Monroe's
card oif the ground. The pieces cf the cigarette
•boxes were not all together on the ground. • The
witness had often had a bet at the faces. Some
times he had made an entry alongside the name
of a hoise. He had taken Uie defendants race
card -out of Ha pocket, but found no entries to
indicate betting. He did not actually see the
defendant write anything in his card, nor did he
see money passed, but the defendant's actions
suggested "both processes. Rubble and Perlubie
were Iboth running at the preivous week. He
could not say whether th entries referred to
that occasion. Sub-Inspector Eraser then, inti
mated that he would not call further evidence.
Mr. Ward applied far a dismissal, whioh waa
gjarsbed, no outer being tmade as to costs.
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