GAMBLING IN A TRAIN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 17 March 1915, Page 7

GAMBLING IN A TRAIN.

HEAVY FINES

EY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, March 17. The four young men —Lynch, Short, Fuller, and Burke —who wei;e acquitted at the late sessions of the Supreme Court for conspiring to defraud a Maori by card playing in a train, were iound guilty in the Magistrate's Court on a charge of gambling iii a railway train. Fuller and Short were each fined .^SO, or. three months, and Burke and Lynch £30, or two months. The no lice objected to time beiiig allowed" for .payment, whereupon Air Dolaa for the prisoners, said*: "It is no wonder juries let people off when tilings like +his iir-ij-pen."

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