HARD LABOUR
BOOKMAKERS SENTENCED.
THREE AT NEW PLYMOUTH.
ANOTHER OFFENDER DEALT WITH. {Per Press Association). NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Three bookmakers were sentenced to terms of hard labour by Mr Justice Reed to-day. 'As a sequel to .a raid by the police in. New Plymouth and Stratford recently, William Henry Lash (Stratford) and Robert Mascall (New Plymouth) were each sentenced to three months’ hard labour and ordered to pay £25 costs, in default another month. . Sydney Roy Lovell (New Plymouth), in whose ease the jury disagreed but who changed his plea to guilty on one count, was sentenced to two months / hard labour with costs £25, or another month. Frederick Charles Hawkes (New Plymouth), recommended for leniency by the jury, was ordered to come up for sentence within two years, on condition that he paid £lO costs within a month, took out a prohibition order, ■and abstained from laying odds or backing horses.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 204, 10 June 1933, Page 6
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