IRISH SWEEPSTAKE TICKETS
PROSECUTION IN ENGLAND CINEMA MANAGER, FINED [United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 15th January, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, 14th January. The first prosecution in England for selling Irish sweepstake tickets was carried out under the Lotteries Act, 1823, when J. Windsor Stevenson, manager of a cinema at Birmingham, was fined £5, with 48s costs, on five summonses for selling Grand National sweepstake tickets.
The prosecution emphasised that the police regarded Stevenson’s cinema screen announcement that he had tickets to sell as a serious offence.
The Magistrate expressed the opinion that if he lived in Ireland he would favour an Act under which a sweepstake was held, but pointed out that he had to administer the English law. Over £160,000 has already been subscribed for the Grand National sweepstake, chiefly in Britain.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 15 January 1931, Page 5
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134IRISH SWEEPSTAKE TICKETS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 15 January 1931, Page 5
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