BOOKMAKERS MED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20006, 25 January 1927, Page 13

BOOKMAKERS MED.

HEAVY PENALTIES IMPOSED. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, January' 24 “ Clients ” continued to ring up anil attempt to make bets on the telephone when Senior Detective Hammond and Detective Robertson raided a bookmakera office on Saturday. One man was very eager to put £8 on each of two horses which subsequently won at Hawke’s Bay, but the detectives told him they were not doing business on the Hawke’s Bay meeting. They then clapped on the receiver, but the man rang again almost immediately, and demanded to know why the bets could not be accepted. Senior Detective Hammond _ related these facts in the police court this morning, when Francis Dansey Orr was fined £75 for keeping a common gaming house in the National Chambers, Swanson street, and Phillip George Mulligan was fined £25 for assisting in its management. Both pleaded guilty when they faced Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. It was stated by Mr Hammond that both men had been carrying on as bookmakers in a room in the National Chambers since December. Previously the same room had been occupied by a bookmaker for some months. The practice carried on by the accused was evidently an extensive one, said Mr Hammond. Over £3O was found in the drawer of a desk. - . In imposing the fines the Magistrate said the accused must have known what to expect, because others who carried on as bookmakers had recently been heavily fined.