On Monday, at the Cambridge Assizes, Mr. Justice Bailhache sentenced
two postmen, both aged eighteen, to six weeks' imprisonment for conspiring to obtain money by fraud. It appears that they sent bets on known winners to a bookmaker through the post in envelopes stamped with a date stamp earlier than the times of the races. In addressing the grand jury, the Judge remarked that the evil of betting "was growing amongst old and young, and in all classes of society. The case before them illustrated how very thin was the line between gambling and crime, and bow abort and easy was the step from one to the other. At a time when gambling was spreading so much and so many families were being ruined it behoved everybody to consider carefully what was his own practice in the matter of betting, and whether it was not necessary to exercise personal denial and self-control." It is highly satisfactory to note that the Daily News speaks of the Judge's comment as "good advice on the subject of betting." Why not apply it to the Star
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