SOAKING THE BOOKIE

NZ Truth, Issue 1052, 21 January 1926, Page 5

SOAKING THE BOOKIE

(From "Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) Chief Detective Cummings and Senior Detective Hammond recently arrested three bookmakers at Auckland. ] Evidence was given to show that William Beresford frequented an Auckland Hotel for the purpose of his bus- ! mess. Henry James Abraham, it was stated, was married and had two children. He had lost his job, and found it : difficult to get another. 1 The loss of an arm m the war, Mr. Mason pleaded for Beresford, had made it by no means easy for him to earn a ; ■ living. His pension of thirty shillings a week was ihsuffi- ! cient for himself, wife and child. ; The third accused, Thomas William Leece, had nothing r to say. Leece was fined £200, Beresford £50, and Abraham £100. Magistrate Poynton refused to ..suppress Beresford 's name. "A man who can be a successful bookmaker," he said, "must have committed hundreds of offences against the , law." iiuumiiiuuiuiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiimi n i iiititimiiiiuiiimuiiiiimimiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiuiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiuiiiiuiiiiiiiiiimiiiuiiiiiiiiiini a. i'vy | H"t«Ba^ M ,^j;,,,, | | ||[ j [ |„,|,|,|,| M |||,|,;jj,|^^