DERBY SWEEP.
RAID ON A CLUB. PROMOTERS FTNED. LONDON, June 3.—Proceedings in connection with the recent raid at Otley, Yorkshire, where a sweepstake on the Derby was being conducted, were concluded at Otley Police Court to-day, when the secretary of the Otley Conservative Olubrthe chairman of tiie sweepstake committee, the treasurer, and another man, pleaded guilty to publishing the scheme and selling tickets. They were ordered to pay all money received for the lottery into the bank within a week, subject to instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions. Each defendant was also fined £SO, and ordered to pay costs amounting to a hundred guineas. The prosecuting counsel said that, had the defendants not pleaded guilty, it would have been his duty to proceed with a charge of conspiracy, but he did not wish to adopt, a vindictive course. Nobody could be permitted to carry on such, a scheme with impunity. He emphasised that the carrying on of these lotteries was absolutely unlawful, and this was the lagt time this lenient attitude of dropping the conspiracy charge would be adopted.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16458, 17 June 1924, Page 5
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180DERBY SWEEP. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16458, 17 June 1924, Page 5
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