CAUGHT RED-HANDED

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 10

CAUGHT RED-HANDED

FINES FOR BOOKMAKING

BETTJNG IN HOTEL BAR

(By Telegraph.—-Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Four men who had been convicted of offences connected with bookmaking were fined amounts totalling £100 by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M. The accused wero caught red-handed on Saturday, when plain-clothes constables and detectives made arrests. The fines were as follows^ —Maurice George Morton, aged 68 years*, described as a bookmaker, £20; William Joseph Brosnahan, aged 39 years, butcher, £.20; John Harris Prisk, aged 30 years, motor-driver, £20. Hugh Herlihy, aged 43, a barman, charged with using the public bar. at the United Service Hotel as a common gaming house, was fined £40. Morton and Herlihy were arrested in the bar of tho United Service Hotel, and the others at a whippet meeting at Bushey Park. The Magistrate said he was surprised that such a business should have been carried on in one of the leading hotels. He felt sure that the- licensing committee would have something to say about it. A third man who was arrested at Bushey Park was remanded. Tho chief detective said that plainclothes men made bets in the hotel and betting material was found when the bar was searched. Referring to the other eases, he said that complaints had been received at the amount of betting at whippet meetings, principally in a small way, and two plainclothes constables who went to the meeting had bets. The Magistrate said that from what ho had heard betting at whippet races was carried on in a small way, but it was pernicious all tho same.