HELD TO BE A LOTTERY
DUKE’S MYSTERY SCHEME FINE OF £25 IMPOSED (Received November 25, 11 a.m./ LONDON, Nov. 24. The Duke of Atholl was/iined £25 and costs £35, at Bow Street Police Court to-day for Un infringement l of the Lottery Act. This is the sequel to the distribution of money from the Duke’s lottery fund. Tlu> magistrate held that the dqke arbitrarily selected beneficiaries in a scheme under which he .made an offer of sale on a chance that there might he prizes, of which a purchaser might be given one. In other words, the defendant admitted the offence of selling tickets, in a lottery’. The magistrate agreed to state) a ease for the High Court.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 5
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