ILLEGAL "SWEEPS."
ACCUSED TO STAND TRIAL
LONDON, May 14
Houston, Dixon and Fowler have been committed for trial. • t
Houstonv-'statecl that he was the sole agent for a Geneva firm' promoting sweeps. . A cable message on Monday stated that Henry James Houston, of Burnley, and William Dixon and Charles Fowler, of Birmingham, were charged at Plymouth with widespread conspiracy in the provinces in connection with the sale of tickets in the Derby sweepstake promoted by the newspaper "John Bull." Evidence was that Houston ordered 11,000,000 tickets, totalling, with circulars, eight tons of printed ; matter.-',-.:> ■• t t
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19140516.2.41
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8839, 16 May 1914, Page 5
Word Count
96ILLEGAL "SWEEPS." Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8839, 16 May 1914, Page 5
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.