BOOKMAKING CHARGES

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1313, 26 January 1928, Page 3

BOOKMAKING CHARGES

HEAVY FINES IMPOSED

(Per Press Association), Wellington, Jan. 2d

Detectives raided the Central Hotel. Lamb lon yuay. Lids morning, and ari'ested three men, Vincent. Erie Reeve, iiiotoniiaii, aged 30 years; Horace Haycock, barman and upholsterer, aged 28 years; ami Bernard Sullivan, barman, aged 33 years.

This afternoon the three men appeared in The Magistrate's Cour'St before Mr; E. Page, S.M., to answer charges against the Ctuning laws. Reeve *and Haycock pleaded guilty to carrying on the business ol bookmakers, and Sullivan pleaded guilty to keeping and using the public bur of the Central Hotel as a common gaming house.

Detective Ward said that none of Lhe defendants carried on bookmakiug in an extensive way. Reeve probably did the largest business of Lh« three. None of them had previously been before .the Court. . Mr Page said thu the Net provided a heavy penalty, but the due)' Detective in describing their case*had said that their betting bad not been, carried on in an extensive way. Reeve was lined £3O, and Haycock and Sullivan wore, each fined £2O. Fourteen days were allowed in wniefe. to pay the fine, in default one month’s imprisonment iu each ease-