HIS EASTER BETS
TOTAL £1,774 BOOKMAKER FINED £75 EPeb Ukiteb Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 2. A fine of £75 was imposed in the Magistrate’s Court to-day on Arthur Law, aged fifty-six, who was arrested yesterday on a charge of using a room as a common gaming-house. Two other men—Lewis Harris, a tailor, aged forty-eight, and Lionel Zucker, an agent, aged thirty-three—were charged with being found in the room without lawful purpose. Harris was fined £2 and Zncker £5. Chief-detective Ward said Law had been carrying on the business of a bookmaker for many years, and was one of the largest (if not the largest) bookmakers in the dominion. Yesterday detectives seized in his room in the Exchange Buildings a largo quantity of betting material. Defendant’s hooks showed that, over the period of five days during the Easter race meetings, he had taken bets amounting to £1,774. He had been before the court in 1912 on two charges of publishing double charts. From the dock Law told the magistrate (Mr Barton) that he had nothing to «ay.
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Evening Star, Issue 20139, 2 April 1929, Page 11
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176HIS EASTER BETS Evening Star, Issue 20139, 2 April 1929, Page 11
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