RAIDS BY DETECTIVES.
gaming law iireaches. SEVERAL MEN CHARGED. MAGISTRATE IMPOSES FINES. A senuel to the raids made by detectives on Saturday wts the appearance in the Police Court yesterday of two men charged with using premises as common gaming houses. Soon aher noon a detective visited the office of Henry Clifton Sallery, aged 38, traveller, at Room 10, Gladstone Buildings, while another detective went, to tho promises of Joseph Spencer Greenwood, aged 59, agent, Room 17, Palmerston Building:!.
Each accused pleaded guilty. Sallery was fined £IOO and Greenwood £SO. An assistant to Greenwood, George Geelong Paul, aged 39, described as <i freezing hand, who was charged with assisting in the management, was fined £25. Fines of £2 woro imposed on William Wilson, aged 40, labou.er, and George Amos Lawrence, aged 52, flounnillor, who pleaded guilty to charges of having been found on Sallery's premises. A similar penalty was inflicted on Samuel Arthur Lowrio. aged 39, freezing hand, who admitted being found in Greenwood's oflice.
It. was stated by the police that Sallery had been convicted for a similar offenco last year and fined £SO. Greenwood was » first offender. His oflico was in the name of his assistant, Paul.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 13
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