BOOKIE FINED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 630, 5 April 1929, Page 1

BOOKIE FINED

LEFT FOR SYDNEY SUDDENLY £3O TO THE STATE When Thomas Tuohy laid the odds and found he could not pay his clients, he shifted to Sydney suddenly. For that offence he appeared before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., at the Police Court this morning and pleaded guilty. Chief-Detective Hammond said that last August Tuohy had been acting as a bookmaker with headquarters in Queen Street. He found he was in difficulties and left for Sydney, leaving liabilities behind him. He had been convicted before and fined £5. The case for Tuohy was that he had seen the error of his ways and had not engaged in laying tote odds for the past 18 months. He was now considering going into business as a draper somewhere down the Main Trunk line. In reply to Mr. Cutten, Chief-Detec-tive Hammond said the penalty could be £SOO, or six months. “This man should be fined £50,” said the chief-detective. “A man at Christchurch was fined £7O. Tuohy is not a poor man. He is a man of property.” Mr. Cutten: I must take into consideration the fact he is not now acting as a bookmaker and that he intends to follow a different line of business. He will be convicted and fined £3O.