BOOKMAKING CHARGES
FOUR MEN SENTENCED THREE SENT TO GAOL. (Per United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 10.. Three bookmakers were sentenced to terms of imprisonment by Mr Justice Reed to-day as tiie sequel to a police raid in New Plymouth and Stratford recently. William Henry Lash (Stratford) and Robert Mascall (New Plymouth) were each sentenced to throe months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay £25 costs, in default another month’s imprisonment. Sydney Roy Lovell (New Plymouth), iu whose case the jury disagreed, but who changed the plea to guilty on one count, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, with costs (£25), or another mouth’s imprisonment. Frederick Charles Hawkes (New Plymouth), who was recommended to leniency by the jury, was ordered to come up for sentence within two years, on condition that he paid £lO costs within a month, also that he took out a prohibition order and abstained from laying odds or backing horses.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21977, 12 June 1933, Page 9
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