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CLEARLY WITHIN THE LAW ALAMEDA COUNTY GRAND JURY DELVES INTO BETTING AT OAKLAND TRACK Sheriff Barnet and District Attorney Donahue Report ReportThat That Personal Investigation Shows California CaliforniaLaw Law Is Being Complied With Oakland Cal December 19 Betting as it is at present conducted at the Oakland race track is not in violation of the WalkerOtis law as interpreted l y Hie District Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court according to the testimony before the grand jury of Alameua County given by Sheriff ISaruet rind District Attorney Donahue DonahueThe The Supreme Comas decision that a person hold ¬ ing stakes in a wager is guilty of no crime under the law is Avhat practically legalizes the form of laying now practiced at the race track Sheriff Barnet and District Attorney Donahue have made personal Investigations of the manner in which betting is done and have hud detectives at work is well wellTheir Their report of wliat they found has been deliv ¬ ered to the grand jury From his own observations and the reports ol men working for him District Attorney Donahue declared that the betting is being to conducted as to be within the law lawThree Three men work together the grand jury was in ¬ formed in accepting the wagers and the duty of each one is so arranged that his particular share in the transaction does not amount to a crime even though it might be a crime for one person to per lorm all the acts The layer has odds written n a program or announces them orally He also announces orally the bet any person may desire to make but iimkcs no record of it himself Another man however does sonic writing and the money Is then passed to a third man Under the interpreta ¬ tions of the law by the Supreme Court none of these men has committed a crime the grand jury was in ¬ formed
