THE LAW FLOUTED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4432, 27 March 1930, Page 2

THE LAW FLOUTED.

BOOKMAKERS HEAVILY FINED. Napier, March 21. Pleading guilty In carrying on business as a bookmaker, Arthur Joseph Yen was this morning fined i;35(l by Mr. A. AL Mowlam, S.M. The police said Yen had set. himself to (lout the law and had escaped for six years since his previous conviction. There were two telephones in his house with switches in Ihe bathroom ami kitchen. The Magistrate remarked that it was common knowledge thal Yen was "the big bookmaker of Napier.” True, the accused had not been convicted for some years, but the Bench would surely he thick in the head if it believed that that indicated that In* had ceased book-mak-ing. Rather did it show Hint accused had been able by Jiis tricks and schemes successfully to beat (he law. Tlis Worship thought that a line of £350 was warranted. James Samuel Golding, previously convicted in 1924, 1927 aiid 1928 pleaded guilty to carrying on business as a bookmaker and using his premises as a common - gaming house. He was fined £l5O and £IOO respectively. The Magistrate remarked that Golding was just as bad as Yeo. He evidently had made up his mind to heat the law, and fines had not deterred him. The police said he seemed to regard a fine simply as a license fee.