HEAVILY BARRED
DETECTIVES FORCE ENTRANCE BOOKMAKING OFFENCES P.A. WELLINGTON, June 8. How he and Senior-detective G. E. Callaghan had to break down a heavilybolted front door at 41 Plunket street and then subsequently saw £22 10s taken in bets within five minutes was related by Senior-detective E. H. Compton in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when prosecuting Evelina Claudine Clare Burt, aged 38, a domestic, on a charge oi bookmaking. The accused, who pleaded guilty, was fined £IOO by Mr H. J. Thompson, S.M. Senior-de teeth e Compton said he and Callaghan visited the accused’s house on Saturday, having to break in through the front door. The back door of the house was also found to be heavilybolted. Up until 1.15 p.m., said witness. £438 had been taken in bets. Pleading guilty to a charge of bookmaking, Thomas Joseph Senior, aged 32, a barman, was fined £2O by Messrs H. G. Hume and W. B. Nicholson, J.P.’s, in the Magistrate's Court at Lower Hutt to-day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26793, 9 June 1948, Page 8
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164HEAVILY BARRED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26793, 9 June 1948, Page 8
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