ANOTHER “BOOKIE”
FINE OF £3O RAID BY POLICE AUCKLANDER CAUGHT t Bookmakers when caught bring quite a lot o£ revenue to the State but the amount of the Court’s time they take up when they appear on this charge is negligible. William Thomas Osmond, aged 25 walked into the Police Court this morning to hear the charge of using the premises of 164 Hobson Street as a common gaming-house read out to him. Two minutes later he walked out again—,£3O poorer. Osmond received an unexpected visit from the police about mid-day on Saturday, and after collecting a quantity of double charts, race-cards and other betting paraphernalia—and Osmond himself—they returned to the Police Station, where the "bookie” was charged before a J.P. and remanded to to-day. Mr. Cummings said that Osmond was not such a big bookmaker as some of those fined £7O recently, so Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., dealt with him more leniently. He was fined £3O and ordered to pay. 10s costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 1
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164ANOTHER “BOOKIE” Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 1
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