GAMING CHARGES.
“LIKE A SWORD OF DAMOCLES. ’ ADJOURNED COURT PROCEEDINGS. (BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) , WELLINGTON, July 21. On March 11 last Carl Petersen Liindegreen was convicted and fined £IOO by Mr. Page, S.M., on a charge of .assisting Alfred George Clements in keeping a common gambling house at Nelson. Three other chargee of assisting Clements to make a bet on horse races, ait total isartor odds, printing a document containing statements as to dividends paid on totalisator investments, and publishing documents of like character, were adjourned pending Mr. Page’s return from England. Yesterday Lindegreen pleaded guilty to these .adjourned charges be lore Mr. Hunt, S.M. Chief Detective Kemp explained Lindegreen had called on him stating that he had relinquished the position as organising secretary of the Dominion Sportsmen’s Association, land was going .to Christchurch, to enter business. Defendant, said he did not want these charges hanging over him like a “Sword of Damocles,’’ and said lie would plead guilty. Under the circumstances' he .asked merely for a conviction. • “Very well,” ..said the Magistrate, “convicted and discharged on the .three charges.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 July 1925, Page 5
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180GAMING CHARGES. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 July 1925, Page 5
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