DETECTIVE TAKES "DOUBLE"
AUCKLAND BOOKMAKERS FINED. -‘IN HONOUR BOUND TO PAY OUT.” By Telegraph.—Pres* Association. Auckland, January 3. Thomas William Leece, aged 64, was fined £lOO for keeping a common gaming house, and David Henry Kirk, aged 64, was fined £5O for assisting him. Leece’s premises were in a private house, and during a raid while Detective Brady was answering the telephone he took several bets, including the winning double at Ellerslie. Counsel said that Leece, although he would not have laid the same double himself, felt in honour bound to pay on it. Leece did no cash betting, but did everything over , the phone. He paid income tax every year.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1933, Page 7
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