GAMING HOUSE CHARGES

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 7, 3 October 1944, Page 3

GAMING HOUSE CHARGES

Sequel To Police Raid Following a police raid on premises in Taranaki Street last Saturday evening, IS men were charged before Mr. Stout, S.M., in the .Magistrates’ Court, VVelhngton, yesterday, with being unlawfully, on premises used as a common gaminghouse, and .three with keeping premises as common gaming-houses.. Clarence Allen, painter, aged 00. Har\>ld Edward March, pensioner, -19, Ibomas Harold Fullagar, seaman and cleaner, 57, and Willie Wong all pleadcd_ guilty to being in a gaming-bonse at Laranaki Street and were each convicted and fined £2. For being (lie keeper of this house, Wong Num, gardener, -ta, was convicted and lined £lOO. 'Daniel Blair, watersider, 62. Milliam Dobson, butcher and soldier, ob, James Frederick Joseph Voice, labourer, 3i>, Henry James llling, driver, 21, Chanes Gore, machinist, 56, William Herbert Jones, truck driver, 44, and Henry Joseph Kelly, marine engineer, 66. admitted being in a gaming-house at I. arßnaki Street, and were each convicted and fined £2. Ah Lyrn, gardener, 4S, pleaded guilty to being the keeper and was convicted and fined £loo.' .1 he magistrate remarked that this was Lym s third offence. The third house raided was 127 laranaki Street, and defendants who pleaded guilty to being on the premises and who were all convicted and fined £2 were Nicholas Coulolias, printer, 43, George Walter Driscole, radiotrician, 6J, william John 'Whiting, seaman, 23, Bert Twidle, watersider, 44, Janies Prince, builder, 57, Frank Peter Schramke, labourer. .61, and Willie Wong, gardener, 44. The keeper of the premises. K. Wong, gardener, 58, admitted the charge and was convicted and fined £75.

Detective-Sergeant. Thompson prosecuted, and Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell appeared for W. Wong, K. Woug, Lym and Num.