DETECTIVES BREAK DOOR TO CATCH WOMAN BOOKMAKER
(P.A.) ' WELLINGTON, This Day. How he and Senior-Detective G. E. Callaghan had to break down a heavily-bolted front door at 41, Plunket street, and then subsequently saw £22 10s taken in bets within five minutes was related by Senior Detective E. H. Compton in the Magistrate’s Court today when prosecuting Eveline Claudine Clareburt, aged 38, a domestic, on a charge of bookmaking. The accused, who pleaded guilty, was fined £lOO by Mr H. J. Thompson, S.M. Detective Compton said he and Detective Callaghan visited the accused’s house on Saturday, having to break in through the front door. The back door of the house had also been found to be heavily bolted. Up until 1.15 p.m., said Detective Compton £438 had been taken in bets. Pleading guilty to a charge of bookmaking, Thomas Joseph Senior, aged 32, a barman, was fined £2O by Messrs H. G. Hume and AV. B. Nicholson, J.P.’s in the Magistrate’s Court at Lower Hutt today.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 June 1948, Page 2
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