FINES INFLICTED

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 14

FINES INFLICTED

As a result of the raid, Alberti Khouri, aged forty, ’proprietor of that club, and described as a bookmaker* was fined £IOO on a charge of keeping a common gaming house, .in default three months’ imprisonment. He pleaded guilty. William Bowyer* aged forty-eight, a labourer, for assisting in keeping a common gaming house, was fined. £SO, in detault two months’ imprisonment. The charges against the sixty-four others for being on the premises are proceeding. Describing the raid, the chief detective said it followed a number of complaints. When the detective got into the main room, a game of hazards was proceeding, and money and dice were oil the table. There were also, dice in the pockets of some men. Bookmakers’! double charts were also found on the premises, the rules of the Bookmakers’! Association, poker chips, also croupiers’' sticks and specially constructed tables for playing poker. The chief detective then handed to the magistrate a loaded stink Mt long -and a brown sandbag. These were articles usually found in a burglar’s kit, and ho did not know whether they had been kept for the purpose of keeping tho clients of the club in order. All classes of men had been found on the premises. Among those charged with being on the premises were V. Alborn. mine owner, A. Holmes and. F. G. Holmes, described as licensed trainers. Referring to penalties, the magistrate said the most difficult point was the question raised by counsel in regard to fhe livelihood of the trotting men, Alhorn, F. G. Holmes, and A. Holmes. Counsel had pointed out that under the rules of trotting these men lose their licensehood if a conviction was entered against them. The magistrate dismissed the cases against these three men on condition. that they paid £lO into court for the mayor’s coal and blanket fund. In all the other cases the men were convicted, and fines up to £o were inn posed.