BOOKMAKING FINE
WARNING OF GAOL PENALTY (P.A.) NELSON, April 14. Pleading guilty to a charge of carrying on the business of a bookmaker, Leo Patrick Bowden was to-day fined £IOO. - Detective-sergeant Murray said that he and Detective Parrish had visited the defendant's home on Saturday morning. Bookmaking paraphernalia was found in the sitting room, where a telephone was installed. During the time the detectives were there bets totalling £23 were taken in 20 minutes, The defendant'had been fined £7O in January, 1945, for a similar offence. The magistrate, Mr T. E. Maunsell, said he had considered sending Bowden to gaol. He was not going to continue fining bookmakers. The only inference he could draw was that it paid bookmakers well to risk paying fines.
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Evening Star, Issue 25769, 16 April 1946, Page 7
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124BOOKMAKING FINE Evening Star, Issue 25769, 16 April 1946, Page 7
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