BOOKMAKERS IN COURT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 1

BOOKMAKERS IN COURT

FINES TOTAL £lßl ‘DOING GOOD BUSINESS’’ Two bookmakers, one assistant and three clients were charged at the Police Court this morning all pleading guilty. Fines totalling £lßl were imposed. Henry Clifton Sallery. a traveller aped 38. admitted using number 19 Gladstone Buildings as a common gaming house, and William Wilson, aged 40, and George Amos Lawrence, aged .52, pleaded guilty to being found on the premises. “Sallery was fined £75 last year.** remarked Chief-Detective Hammond. “Ho was also sentenced to a term of imprisonment by the Supreme Court five years ago.” “I remember him,” assented Mr. F. Hunt, S.M., as he fined Sallery £IOO. Lawrence and Wilson were fined £2 each, only the former appearing. COMMON GAMING HOUSE Joseph Spencer Greenwood, who was said by Mr. Hammond to be doing good busines, was fined £SO. Through his counsel, Mr. R. H. Mackay, Greenwood, an agent, aged 59, pleaded guilty to keeping number 17. Palmerston Buildings, as a commuil gaming house. George Geelong Paul, a freezing works labourer, aged 39, ad* mitted assisting Greenwood, and Samuel Arthur Lowrie, aged pleaded guilty to being found on tha premises. Mr. Hammond said that the room had been raided on Saturday afternoon, when a quantity of betting material had been found. None of men had previously been before the Court • A request for leniency on behalf At Paul tvas made by Mr. Mackay. but the chief detective remarked that the office was taken under his name. Paul was fined £25 and Lowrie £2*