GAOL FOR BOOKMAKERS?
MAGISTRATE'S WARNING. PENALTY FOR THIRD OFFENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) STRATFORD, Monday. For keeping a common gaming house Ernest A. Johnston, who appeared in the Stratford Police Court to-day, was fined £100. For assisting in the conduct of a common gaming house William H. Lash was fined £25. Three persons found on the premises were fined £1 each. Johnston had had one previous conviction for a sipiilar offence. In addressing tho Court his counsel submitted that there could be no question of imprisonment, as no Court had yet soon fit to imprison a bookmaker. He said he hardly expected the Stratford Court to lie the first in New Zealand to award imprisonment. Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., interjected that it might be. Counsel said there was a case on record in which a fine of £50 had been considered adequate for a fourth offence. In imposing the fines the magistrate said that, whether or not the Stratford Court should be the first in New Zealand to award imprisonment for bookmakers, if Johnston appeared a third time he would go to prison. Perhaps another person, for even a second offence, might meet a similar fate.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 124, 28 May 1929, Page 13
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196GAOL FOR BOOKMAKERS? Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 124, 28 May 1929, Page 13
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