PROSECUTING BOOKMAKERS.
“FINES NO USE.” Auckland, Last Night. “Fines are no use, but this is a case where I cannot impose imprisonment,” said Mr Poyuton, fe.M. in dealing with Frederick Howard, who appeared on a charge of publicly exhibiting a double chart •-» two races at Tnkapuna. I The police stated that accused, a waterside worker, had been remanded for sentence, pending Supreme Court proceedings. Accused was acquitted in that Court on a charge of hookmaking. Accused was lined £2O, the maximum penalty. •A barman named Prank Kelly was lined £lO on each of two charges of having made hots at tote odds in an hotel bar. The defence was that accused had accepted the money on behalf of a bookmaker and was not himself following that occupation. Commenting on the fact that it was possible to make bets in an open bar, this virtually constituting a common gaming house, Mr Poyuton found accused guilty of betting and agreeing to pay tote odds.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2585, 26 May 1923, Page 3
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162PROSECUTING BOOKMAKERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2585, 26 May 1923, Page 3
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