LOTTERY LAW BREACHES
AGED NUN FINED 10s. A 68-year-old nan of St Mary’s Priory, Princethorpe, Rugby, pleaded guilty recently to publishing details of* a lottery in aid of the African for the Redemption of Slaves, the 'prises t for which were tickets in the Irish hospitals sweepstake. She was fined 10s. V
' A: locomotive cleaner was fined Is at:’. Wolverhampton for selling Irish sweep-;' / stake tickets. Proceedings, ordered ,*y ■the Home: Qftce,' were taken underpin, 'Act 110"years' old. • ' ' '“fAs the iaw stands,” said the chief-' constable of vWolverhamption, “the; high"est and' most ; respected citizen, if hevaoldy? one sweepstake ticket, would automatic-- 1 ; ally become, by this old Act, a rogue *n : vagabond.” '. The chairman of the Bench: ' said that ,hey hoped the commission; ap-:.-;; ’pointed by the Home Office would help’ ~' to:clear up>anomalies.. ’ ‘Wi At .Rochester a man yras bound over. ; ; qnasimilar charge. The costs was raised, but the,. Bench dedlhew. to make an order.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21710, 30 July 1932, Page 18
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