BETTING CONVICTION
LE SUBUE'PINED £30.
Clarence Adolphus Le Sueur pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court .yesterday, before Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M.', to laying totalisator odds on January 26, and to publishing a "double" chart on February 4. Mr. T. H. Gill, who appeared for defendant, said that Lβ Sueur was a loyal and patriotic man, and though over 40 years of age and married, he enlisted during the first year of the war and was turned down. Furthermore, lie was not dependant upon hookmaking for a living. He was a straight man and' had met all his obligations. Detective Sergeant Cox, who prosecuted, said that the statement made by Mr. Gill was correct. Le Sueur had a good reputation as being a straight man. He had been previously convicted and fined £20 on December 13, 1912. for betting. The Magistrate said that men who were loyal and patriotic could not make that an excuse for breaking tho law. The fact that he was not dependant upon betting for a_ ■ living would be taken into consideration. Lo Sueur was fined £20, in default two months' imprisonment, on one charge, and on the second charge he was fined £10, with the option of a month's imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 138, 28 February 1918, Page 6
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205BETTING CONVICTION Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 138, 28 February 1918, Page 6
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