THE PREMIER CLUB RAID
FINES OF OVEN £2OO IMPOSED [Fsb United Pekss Association.] WELLINGTON, April 17. Tines totalling over £2OO were imposed to-day on the men arrested as the result of a raid on the Premier Club on the night of April 9. One of the keepers, Francis Law, who had a previous conviction, was fined £IOO and the other keeper, Thomas Dwyer, was fined £4O All but on© of the defendants reversed their pleas of not guilty entered at the first hearing, and admitted only one charge, which was dismissed on a technical point. Of the forty-five men . found on the premises six did not appear in court at the first hearing, and were fined £3. Another was dealt with yesterday, and the remainder were fined in sums ranging from £2 to £5. The charge against Isaac Kutner of assisting in the conduct of a common gaming house was dismissed.
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Evening Star, Issue 19843, 17 April 1928, Page 8
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151THE PREMIER CLUB RAID Evening Star, Issue 19843, 17 April 1928, Page 8
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