Little Ike

NZ Truth, Issue 1168, 19 April 1928, Page 5

Little Ike

JKE KUTNER is such a nice, * quiet little chap. When the Premier Club, Wellington, was raided a few nights ago, one of the detectives asked Ike what part he had played m the gentle, soothing game of -hazards, to which Ike replied that: "Oh, I'm only one of the simple children." Boxing managers usually are like -that, aren't they? A youna constable who had gone there on an observation tour two or three times before the raid, said he saw Ike holding the bank on one occasion, but Ike told. Magistrate Page that he had presided over the little flutter while the official banker went out to transact a little business. Anyway, he got away with it, for Magistrate Page dismissed the charge of his assisting Thomas Dwyer, a steward, and Francis Patrick Law, taxi-proprietor, to keep a common gaming-house. Dwyer was fined £40, m default two months; Law was handed a potion of £100 or an alternative three months because he had been at the game before.