KEEPING A GAMING HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1910, Page 8

KEEPING A GAMING HOUSE.

\ CHINESE FINED £30. Wong Lee appeared in the Magistrate's Court today in answer to a chaTge of keeping* a' gaming houee. SubInspector Norwood stated tnat the evidence in th,e case had been taken in conjunction with several others, and the matter had been hong up pending aa appeal (in Jim "Sjoang's case), which had bsen decided in the Supreme Court recently defendant. Wong Lee had pleaded not guilty The evidence in tho other oases (as in this^was taken .on 28th January last. Counsel for defendant (Mr. P. W. 'Jackson) stated that Lee's case was not< exactly on all fours witli fche others, ■when fines were inflicted. Lee was a poor man with nothing at all. He asked that the fine should be made as light as possible. If it were made substantial liis client, who had not been up before the court on a similar chai"ge, would have to go to gaol. Counsel volunteered his opinion that the heavy penalties that ihad been inflicted recently were having a salutary effect. Sub-Inspector Norwood stated! that 4ho offence was one similar to Jim I iYomig's. Mr. Riddell, S.M., imposed a fine of '£30, with costs. Default was fixed at ithree months' imprisonment.