BOOKMAKERS FINED
(Press Assn. — ■
SEQUEL TO STRATFORD POLICE RAID HEAVY PENALTIES INFLICTED
By Telegraph — Copyright.)
STRATFORD, Monday. Fines of £200 each were imposed by Mr. Tate S.M. on Dominick Sasarich, Felix Pobrica, and William Henry Lask for bookmaking. The charges were the sequel to a police raid on October 1." The defendants pleaded guilty. ' Counsel for the defence made a strong plea for a lesser penalty and referred to the law as hypocritical. Evidence was given by the ToWn Clerk as to the excellent character of Sasarich and Pobrica. The Magistrate said the Court was not concerned with the actions of the legislature. The police and the Court had to administer the. law, not to critisize it. He declined to reduce the penalties.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19311208.2.45
Bibliographic details
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 December 1931, Page 5
Word Count
123BOOKMAKERS FINED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 December 1931, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in