BOOKMAKING CHARGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1939, Page 9

BOOKMAKING CHARGES

defendant in a big way. FINE OF £2OO IMPOSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N„ August 14. ( “This man is in a big way. We make I no excuse for saying that he is easily the biggest in the Manawatu and one of the biggest in New Zealand." said j Detective-Sergeant Meiklejohn, in the Magistrate's Court, when Charles t Joseph Williams was charged with t carrying on the business of a book- . maker. 5 “He has agencies in every centre ; of consequence in the Manawatu, . [North Wairarapa, Rangitikei, and even as far as Hastings,” said the DetectiveSergeant. "His business is carried on . quite openly—we say brazenly. This I man flaunts the law. He has no ret, gard for it at all or he would not be j allowing young girls to break it every hour of the day. It is one of the worst cases of bookmaking I have met with in my 23 years in the Police Force. He has not even the decency to employ male attendants to answer the telephone.” Williams pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined £2OO. Three young women clerks on • Williams's premises were each fined : £5 on a charge of being found on i premises used for bookmaking. ; I Harry Macdonald Essex, on a charge of using premises as a common gam- , ing-house, was fined £75. the Magistrate saying that the volume of busi1 ness showed that the defendant was in j a fairly big way. Stanley Frank Lincoln, a butcher, charged with using premises as al common gaming-house, was fined £25. According to the police statements ho was an agent for Williams.