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Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1926, Page 2

BOOKMAKER PLEADS GUILTY.# •WELLINGTON, July 28. When Air Dolan urpced that leniency bo extended in the case of James George Towersey, who pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court yesterday to carrying on the business of a bookmaker and appeared for sentence today, Chief Justice Skerrett said that the question was whether prisoner was going to continue in the bookmaking business. Counsel could not give any personal assurance. He sum that Towersev had now no capital. There was no inducement for him to go back to business. He had become unpopular in Featherston. His Honor said that it was impossible to admit prisoner to probation. That would be making a farce of the system. The Court would see that the prisoner’s act was not repeated. “ I am not prepared to trust you with any conditions of probation nor am I content to accept any undertaking or assurance on your part.” he said to the prisoner. “ The course I propose to adopt will ensure that you give up your bookmaking business. You are ordered to come up for sentence within the next twelve months. If there is any complaint during that- period you will certainly go t° gaol.”