BOOKMAKERS TERRORISED
AFRAID TO SEEK POLICE AID Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, February 28. Giving evidence in a case in which a man was charged with having habitually consorted with criminals, a police constable said that criminals constantly robbed bookmakers at Paddington and Darlinghurst and then brutaljy handled them, so that they were afraid to seek police aid. The police alleged that through the fear of threats made hy reputed criminals bookmakers had become so terrorised that they declined to conic forward to give information in the courts. The defendant was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.
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Evening Star, Issue 21967, 1 March 1935, Page 9
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96BOOKMAKERS TERRORISED Evening Star, Issue 21967, 1 March 1935, Page 9
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