BOOKMAKERS CAUGHT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3582, 4 January 1927, Page 3

BOOKMAKERS CAUGHT.

HEAVY FINES INFLICTED. Auckland, January 3. On Saturday morning, as the result of a raid carried out by SeniorDetective Hammond, several men were arrested on charges under the Gaming Act. This morning in the Magistrate’s Court, before Mr F. Iv. Hunt, S.M., Henry Clifton Sallary, aged 37, and Henry Saunders, 27, were each charged with keeping a common gaming house. Laurence Chapman, 23, was charged with as'-* sisting in the management of a common gaming house, while Alfred Martin Mathews, 45, George Pratt, 50, and Hurry Young’, 27, were each charged with being found in a common gaming house. Sallary, Saunders, and Chapman, who appeared, pleaded guilty. Cliief-Detective Cummings stated that Sallary had been carrying on, for some.time, a wholesale business at totalisator odds. He had-been convicted on February G, 1923. While Saunders also carried on a big business, lie had never been convicted previously, but he had been a bit lucky. “Sallary is president of the Bookmakers’ Association for the Auckland pi’ovinee, while Young is secretary. Mathews is only a member,' and Pratt went in for a five-bob bet,” said Mr Cummings. “You have each saved yourselves £25 by pleading guilty and saving trouble,” said Mr Hunt, who added that he would not send accused to gaol. Both Sallary and Saunders were fined £75 and Chapman was fined £25. Mathews and Young were each fined £5 and Pratt £2 and costs.