BOOKMAKING CHARGES
HAIRDRESSER AND BARMAN FINED [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 18. Pleading guilty to charges of bookmaking, William John O’Donnell, a hairdresser, and Kaymond John Kendall, a barman, were each fined .£25 by the magistrate, Mr Stout. Counsel for O’Donnell said: “ In the suburbs it has come to this, that a man can’t very well hold together his business as hairdresser and tobacconist unless he is prepared to oblige customers by taking bets for them.” The defendant, counsel added, was only an agent. In Kendall’s case the police said the defendant stated that he had been bookmaking for five -weeks on behalf of a bookmaker, from whom be received Is 5d in the £.
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Evening Star, Issue 23374, 18 September 1939, Page 8
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115BOOKMAKING CHARGES Evening Star, Issue 23374, 18 September 1939, Page 8
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