MADE HIM A “MARTYR”
BOOKMAKER’S CONVICTION THE CASE OF T. CURRAN SYDNEY, Feb. 6, The Sun publishes an interview with T. Curran, in which he states that his serving of a sentence in Auckland Gaol for bookmaking has attracted such nation-wide attention that it now seemed certain that bookmaking legislation in New Zealand would follow as a matter of course. Really his conviction made him a martyr in the cause of turf progress. He had gone to gaol and had hated the experience. He had shared Christmas gifts of food, filling a five-ton lorry, with 196 inmates. Despite petitions signed by 20,000 people and the despatch ofhundreds of telegrams to the Government praying for clemency, he had had to serve the full term. He said he had done a few days over the term, having entered gaol on November 18 and been released on January 19.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23109, 8 February 1937, Page 9
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