RAILWAY EMPLOYEE TURNS BOOKMAKER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 June 1927, Page 9

RAILWAY EMPLOYEE TURNS BOOKMAKER

“TO SUPPLEMENT INCOME” FATEFUL DOUBLE-CHART T£ I suppress this man’s name, I will have to suppress the name of every civil servant who comes before me, iust because he is liable to dismissal. In these words Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., at the Police Court this morning. refused Mr. Goldstein’s request to suppress the name of Maurice Goodman, a railway employee, who pleaded guilty to a charge of bookmaking. Chief-Detective Cummings said that about three weeks prior to the June race meeting Goodman had laid off 120 bets on a double chart, laying £lO to a shilling. He was not struck, although one of his clients claimed that he had been. Mr. Goldstein, in his plea on behalf of Goodman, said that he had met with much misfortune. He had many domestic expenses, and was still paying off other creditors. He had adopted bookmaking as a means of supplementing his income. He applied for the suppression of Goodman’s name because he would be dismissed if the Railway Department heard of the prosecution. The magistrate fined Goodman £7 10s and refused to suppress his name.