CROSS-WOKD PUZZLE
PROMOTERS TO BE PROSECUTED
A charge of having conducted a lottery by commencing a scheme whereby prizes of money were competed for by mode of chance, was made against Edward Coupe Gorton, Reginald Aldersley, and Wallace M'Millan, in the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mt. E. Page, S.M.
Mr. B. Egley. who appeared for the defendants, asked for an adjournment until 19th August, and also applied for the suppression of the names ill the meantime. The charge was that the defendants promoted a cross-word puzzle, and it was alleged that it was a game of chance under the Gaming Act, he said. The three defendants were clerks employed by various firms, and the case would probably create more than the usual amount of interest. If knowledge of the • case came to their employers, it might lead to trouble.
Mr. Page: "It is not a very disgraceful thing if it is straight-forward.'l
The adjournment was granted, but the Magistrate declined to suppress the names of the defendants.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1927, Page 10
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