GAME OF CHANCE
ONE MONTH HARD. f ßy Telegraph—Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, August 13. ’ The method in which John Rupert Lawrence conducted the game of “Doodelem Buck” at the Winter Show has earned for him one month in gaol, imposed this morning by Mr Mosley 9.M. Lawrence was charged with being a rogue and vagabond, in that on August 10th. he played with an instrument of gaming. The Chief Detective said that accused had a stall in the Winter Show when he conducted a game called “Doodelom Buck,” in which a player tried to knock down two pins with a ball. A young man named Elliott said he had been robbed of £2 by the accused. Another young man named Cutten, had been defrauded, and Detective Sergt. Young had arrested the accused. Lawrence had three times been convicted for playing games of chance, the last time being in Hamilton in March last. “It won’t happen again” said the accused. “It is bad when a man deliberately sets himself to take people down,” said the Magistrate. “Gne months gaol with hard labour.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1931, Page 5
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181GAME OF CHANCE Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1931, Page 5
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