COMMON GAMING HOUSE
TWO WOMEN FINED
DUNEDIN COURT CHARGES
(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. In the Police Court to-day Jane Mary Gregg, aged 05 years, was charged with permitting premises to be used as a common gaming house by another person, and Mary Frances Lord, aged 41, was charged with using the premises as n gaming house.
Detective Hall said that Lord was the wife of a well-known bookmaker. The accused had been known to be acting as her husband’s agent. For nine months she had been using Gregg’s telephone and dining rooms on race-days. There was an alarm bell from the front of the house to the dining room in the rear of the telephone. On the second day of the Wellington races detectives, executing a search warrant, found the place locked. Pushing up the dining-room window, they saw Lord at a table by (lie telephone. The detectives found 3(1 belting slips totalling £29.
Tiie magistrate said that probably tlie police surmise was correct that Lord had been used as camouflage by her husband for betting. Lord was fined £SO and Gregg .£lO.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19377, 15 July 1937, Page 15
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185COMMON GAMING HOUSE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19377, 15 July 1937, Page 15
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