GUILTY OF BOOKMAKING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 February 1921, Page 7

GUILTY OF BOOKMAKING

CARRIER FINED £25

(BY TELEGRAPH — VRT.SB ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 17. William James Ryan, carrier, pleaded guilty at .the Magistrate's Court on a charge of bookmaking at the Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting on February 12. The police gave evidence that accused was running a double chart on two events. Cpunsel said that accused was making bets in email amounts with friends, but he was not an habitual .bookmaker. In view of . recent cases elsewhere had he. elected to go before a jury he would probably be acquitted, but. he pleaded guilty. ■* The Magistrate, Mr S. E. McCarthy,, said he would take into consideration the previous good character ■of accused, his military service, and that he had pleaded guilty and given an assurance that he would not again en- - gage in the occupation of bookmaker.. He imposed a fine of £25, in default three months' imprisonment.