VERDICT OF GUILTY.
BETTING WITH POLICEMAN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday.
A verdict of guilty was returned today in the Supreme Court in the case of Herbert GeoTge Taylor, on the charge that on January 19, at Christchurch, he carried on the business or occupation of a bookmaker. Accused pleaded not guilty.
The evidence for the Crown was that a constable met accused on several occasions in the bar of a hotel, where it was evidently Taylor's custom to resort for the purpose of carrying on his business as a bookmaker. The constable made several bets with him, and had some conversation with him, in which accused stated that his only business was betting. The constable saw from time to time notes of bets kept by accused, acceptance cards and other bookmaking material. Accused when arrested had £52 in his possession, besides betting paraphernalia and some communications from an organisation known to be the Bookmakers' Association.
Accused was remanded until Saturday for sentence, permission being given him to remain out of custody.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 39, 15 February 1929, Page 8
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