BETS ACCEPTED
WOMAN FINED £15
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, This Day. On a charge of carrying on business as a bookmaker, Winifred Hollings, of Hastings, was fined £ 15, with costs 10s, by Mr. J. Miller, S.M., in the Hastings Magistrate's Court. The defendant pleaded guilty. • Detective-Sergeant Revell said he visited a small shop kept by the defendant. She admitted she had agreed to accept bets for a bookmaker on the basis of 2s in the £1. The most she had taken in any one day had been £5. She had taken on bookmaking because of business being bad. . "This is a case like many others," observed Mr. Miller, "where people do not realise the risk.they are taking."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 25
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