BIG MAN IN OUNEDIN
LESSER FINES ELSEWHERE
(By Telegraph—Presa Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
James David Thomas Pearson was today flned £lo° fov keeping a gaminghouse.
, Tlie polico stated that on Friday, when the Metropolitan trots were held at Christchurch, detectives paid a surprise visit to the defendant/s house, where they found Pearson in a room fitted as an office taking telephone bets. In the room were double charts and race cards., Records of sixty bets amounting to £39 were also found. The defendant had previously' been fined £20 for bookmaking, £50 'for street betting, and £100 for keeping a gaming-house. He was one of the biggest bookmakers in Dunedin, if not in New- Zealand. • ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 115, 12 November 1934, Page 11
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114BIG MAN IN OUNEDIN Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 115, 12 November 1934, Page 11
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