BOOKMAKING CHARGES
RAIDS IN CHRISTCHURCH (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. November 19. A fine of £2O was imposed on Harry Abram Smith, charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with keeping a common gaming house. A billiard room in High street occupied by Smith was raided by the police to-day and betting material was found.. Counsel for Smith said that Smith did not make a penny out of the transactions, but was only a go-between for bookmakers and their clients, Henry William Pullen and Thomas Victor Tuohy pleaded not guilty to similar charges, and were remanded for eight days. Bail of £IOO and one surety of £IOO was allowed. Pullen was said to have been operating in a building in Colombo street and Tuohy ill the bar of an hotel.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22424, 20 November 1934, Page 7
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