ANTI-BETTING RAID

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 53, 2 March 1918, Page 6

ANTI-BETTING RAID

THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED. The police ar e continuing their campaign in an endeavour to combat the betting evil in Wellington, says the Times. 'On Wednesday afternoon De-tective-Sergeant Cox, Detective Carney, and Plain-clothes 'Constable Black raided the premises, a blacksmith's shop, and office, of Michael Henry Fitzgibbon, No. 9. Ghuznee street, and after searching and) seizing certain documents alleged to be relative to horse-racing, arrested Fitzgibbbon on a charge of being the occupier and having the use of premises to keep and' use same as a common gaming-house. The police also arrested G-arnet Harold Lawler, a wharf labourer, of 9, Alfred street, on a charge of assisting in the conduct of the business of a common gaming-house kept and used by Fitzgibbon. At 7.15 o'clock on Thursday morning Detective-Sergeant Cox and Plainclothes Constable Black arrested John Ambrose Sullivan, farrier, at his home in 116 Sutherland road ; , until recently a partner of Fitzgibbon, also on the charge of keeping a common gamingrouse.

Sullivan will -be further charged with laying totalisator od'ds. The three defendants appeared before Mr McCarthy, S.M., and were remanded' on the application of the police till next Wednesday. They were admitted to bail, each in the sum of £25 and on e surety each for a similar amount.