BOOKMAKERS PUNISHED

Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1930, Page 11

BOOKMAKERS PUNISHED

HEAVY PENALTIES IMPOSED

GAMING HOUSES AT WELLINGTON.

TELEPHONE BETS AT AUCKLAND.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, April 27.

Fines totalling £575 were imposed by Mr. E. Page, S.M., on four men who pleaded guilty to bookmaking. Harry Corner, aged 38, a barman, was charged with using the private bar of the Carlton Hotel as a common gaming house, and was fined £5O, in default two months’ imprisonment. Robert Henry Jones, who has been previously convicted, was fined £3OO, in default three months’ imprisonment; Ralph Ellis Thompson, aged 50, also previously convicted, was fined £2OO, in default two months' imprisonment; Edward George Munns, aged 50, was fined £25, in default two months’ imprisonment.

DETECTIVES’ BUSY.. AFTERNOON;

BETS TAKEN ON THE TELEPHONE.

Auckland, April 28. Alfred Harold Griffiths, aged 27, described. as a bookmaker, admitted a gaming house charge in the court today. ’ ’ ’_ . . . The prosecuting detective said that when detectives visited accused’s premises at mid-day on Saturday they took charge of the telephone and received bets faster than they could write them down. Apparently this telephone was used exclusively for betting as it was not listed in the ordinary exchange list. Griffiths was fined £lOO or/three months’ imprisonment.

BARMAN CAUGHT RED-HANDED.

RECEIVES COMMISSION.

Dunedin, April 28.

• William George Lindsay, a barman at the Prince of Wales Hotel, was caught red-handed on Easter Monday taking beta for an unknown bookmaker and to-day was fined £35. The betting material showed that defendant had taken 160 bets, totalling £152, receiving a small commission from his principal. The magistrate said if there was a real “Sportsman’s Association,” of which the court had heard on previous occasions, there should be no difficulty about the payment of the fine.

WOMAN BOOKMAKER CONVICTED

WHAT THE CONSTABLE FOUND.

Whangarei, April. 28.

Dorothy Davenport Whit© was. to-day fined £lO and costs on a charge of carrying on business as a bookmaker. The circumstances were unique. During Easter Saturday night a constable on his rounds, noticing an open door, investigated and discovered that an interior door leading to White’s office was also open, He saw betting charts on the table and got another constable to accompany him. They searched the table, cupboards and drawers and took away data. Later they informed White of what they had done. She admitted having taken bets on the Waikato races. Counsel for the defendant held that the constables had acted illegally in searching the premises without a warrant. The magistrate said that if con* stables had done wrong no doubt the department would deal with theni. In any ease White’s admission was sufficient to secure a conviction.