BOOKMAKER SENT TO GAOL
THIRD CONVICTION IN FOUR YEARS
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. July 13. A 53-year-old carpenter, James Christopher Lyon, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for bookmaking by Mr J. B. Thomson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington today. . Lyon was found in a hotel on Saturday afternoon with £370 worth of betting slips, said Senior-Detective W. S. Craigie. Lyon had been bookmaking at the hotel as an agent for some months, he added, and had convictions for similar offences in 1949 and 1950. Lyon pleaded guilty.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27091, 14 July 1953, Page 6
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