RAID BY POLICE
NINE MEN BEFORE COURT. CHARGES OF BOOKMAKING. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, March 21. After several weeks’ investigation, simultaneous raids were made by 30 police officers on Saturday afternoon on the places of business occupied by men suspected of breaches of the Gaming Act. As a ■ result of the raids, nine men were charged in the Police Court to-day with carrying on the business or occupation of bookmakers. They were Isaac Henry Curtis, Charles Henry Paul, William McQueen, Leonard Leslie Little, John Sinclair Clark, Thomas Potter, Thomas Garvey, Thomas Hanley and John Reid. After Potter and Paul had pleaded not guilty and had withheld their election of a summary trial or trial by jury, the police applied for a remand until April 4, which was granted, bail being allowed to the nine accused. The police stated that further charges of keeping common gaming houses and laying totalisator odds would be preferred.
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Southland Times, Issue 21659, 22 March 1932, Page 8
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154RAID BY POLICE Southland Times, Issue 21659, 22 March 1932, Page 8
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