SEQUEL TO A RAID.
CHARGE AGAINST OWNER. INFORMATION' DISMISSED. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 4. As a sequel to the recent gaming raid Walter Ilulston, a middle-aged hairdresser and tobacconist, was charged before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M. in tho Magistrate’s Court to-day. “That, being the owner of premises at 171 Madras street, he knowingly and wilfully, permitted it to be kept and used as a common gaming house by Alexander Duncan.” Mr F. D. Sargent, for Hulston, said that this was the first case against an owner of a gaming house that had ever come under bis notice. Ho submitted that, under the statute, the defendant had knowingly and wilfullyallowed the premises to be used as a gaming house. The only evidence was that there were some torn up cards in the fireplace. The Magistrate: There is more than that; the place had previously been used as a gaming house. Mr Sargent said that the presence of Hulston in the room fell far short of the requisite evidence. The Senior-Detective considered that Hulston might have evicted the proprietor if he was suspicious of the conduct of Duncan. The Magistrate dismissed the charge. 'ln connection with the raid, Edward John Geary, tinsmith, was fined £2 and costs on a charge of having been found in a common gaming house.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 58, 5 February 1927, Page 9
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