DANNEVIRKE “BOOKIE” HAD £SO ON ARREST
SERGEANT’S CYCLE RIDE. MAGISTRATE RELIEVES DEFENDANT OF £35. Per Press Association. DANNEVIRKE, Last Night. Pleading guilty to a charge of loitering in High street, Dannevirke, for the purposes of betting, William Joseph Donovan, who keeps a tobacconist business, was fined £35 to-day by Mr. J Miller, S.M. The police stated that Donovan s chief business was betting and they believed he was agent for a big bookmaker. j The Magistrate declined to accept the plea of counsel for defendant that Donovan was only a silver bettor, in view of the fact that over £SO was found on him after his arrest, which was the sequel to a cycle ride by Sergeant Martin on March 30, last.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6886, 16 April 1929, Page 5
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122DANNEVIRKE “BOOKIE” HAD £5O ON ARREST Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6886, 16 April 1929, Page 5
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