NOT HONEST MEN.
• GAMBLING ON THE RAILWAY. HEAVY FINES IMPOSED. (By Telegraph—Press Assoctatien.) NAPIER, this day. Four men named Lynch, Short, Fuller, and Burke, who were acquitted at the last session of the Supreme Court on a charge of conspiring to defraud a Maori by card playing in a train, were to-day found guilty in the Magistrate's Court on a charge of gambling on a railway. Fuller and Short were each fined £50 or three months' imprisonment, and Burke and Lynch were fined £30 each, or two months' imprisonment. The police objected to time being allowed. Mr. Dolan (for the prisoners): It is nn wonder juries let people off when things like this happen. His Worship: It is not a case of time: they arc not honcsl men.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1915, Page 7
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