BREACH OF THE GAMING ACT
BOOKMAKER FINED. Clarence Adolplvus Le Sueur,' who was remanded to 6th March, on charges of laying totalisator odds and publishing two "double" betting charts, appeared before Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., at his own request at the Magistrate's Court today. On the application of DetectiveSergeant Cox, one charge of publishing a double chart was withdrawn.' Mr. T. H. Gill, who appeared for Le Sueur, stated that his client, though a married man; over forty years of age, enlisted during the first year of the war. Ho wae not dependent on bookmaking, and employed no touts or agents. DetectiveSergeant Cox said that Le Sueur was previously convicted and fined £20 in 1912 for betting on licensed premises. The Magistrate said that the fact that a niin had shown his patriotism by enlisting gave him no excuse for breaking the law, and, moreover, if a man wae not at least partially dependent on bookmaking he. would not make a practice of it. On the charge of publishing a double , chart on 4th. February, Le Sueur was fined £10, in default one j month's im- J prisonment, and, for laying totalisator odds, £20, in default two months' imi prisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 50, 27 February 1918, Page 8
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201BREACH OF THE GAMING ACT Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 50, 27 February 1918, Page 8
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