BOOKMAKER FOUND GUILTY.
REMANDED FOR SENTENCE. ,pER United Press Association-! CHRISTCHURCH, February 14. Herbert George Taylor was found guilty in the Supreme Court to-day on a charge that on January 19, at Christchurch, he carried on the business or occupation of a bookmaker. The accused pleaded not guilty. 3 The evidence for the Crown was that the constable met the accused on several occasions in the bar of an hotel, where it was evidently Taylor’s custom to resort for the purpose of carrying on his business as a bookmaker. The constable had made several bets with him. He also had some conversation with him in which the accused stated that his only business was betting, and ho saw from time to time notes of bets kept by the accused, acceptance cards, and other bookmaking material. The accused when arrested had £52 in his possession, betting paraphernalia, and some communications from an organisation known to be the Bookmakers’ Association. The accused was remanded until Saturday for sentence, permission being given him to remain out of custody.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20643, 15 February 1929, Page 7
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