CONSTABLE'S BETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1932, Page 3

CONSTABLE'S BETS.

RAID ON BILLIARD SALOON. THREE MEN FINED. "AGGRAVATED THE MATTER." The decision of Mr. W. K. McKcan, S.M., was given to-day in a case heard earlier in the week, when, as the result of a raid on a billiard saloon on June 25 by detccti vi'?, James Allen Phillips, aged 40, was charged with lining premises at 225, Queen Street, as a common gaminghouse, and William Janice Augustus Gray, 28, and Lancelot Janice Kivell, 29, wore each charged with assisting in the management of a gaming-house. The magistrate said that he had read all the fuse* and authorities quoted by counsel for the men, and he held that there was a case to answer. A constable had made a bet with both Gray and Kivell. and had been given a double card by Phillips. Counsel then said he would call Phillips, who would deny that he was a bookmaker, and that he took any bets, and say also that he did not run the billiard room ne a common gaminghouse. Phillips gave evidence to this effect, and wn.s cross-examined by D&tective Sergeant Doyle at much length. The other two defendant* also gave evidence. ''If the.>e men hud not given evidence, I might have made the penalty smaller," said the magistrate, in convicting the three men on the charges. '"By getting in the box and telling me what they have done, they have only aggravated the matter. 1 ' Phillips wae fined £25, and each of (lie other two men £3.