CHARGE OF KEEPING BETTING SHOP.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13350, 15 December 1906, Page 5

CHARGE OF KEEPING BETTING SHOP.

:'m , , Per Press Association. .Wellington, December 14. '. At the Magistrate's Court tordayj William Scott and Harry MartindaU were charged with having kept a betting shop at 57A., Lamb ton Quay! J Albert Clark, .«, probationary can stable, stationed at Mount Cook ; etatedi that on December 10th he called a-t defendants' offices, and saw albo\itHhirt^ men assetnlbled. -TJ>ey woa 1 ? looking at, race cards. Tha witness gave particulars of bets he hadmiad* with 'M-artindale, arid of i bets"m l ade i by a probationer naoned O'^en in, his presence. ..Bets were also made <yn subsequewt occasions'; and divi^endi osa. winners paid out -by. Scott. . v .O'Brien gave corroborative " evidence. * Acting-'Deitective A Williams; said ' the defendants' business at 57 Lambton Qaay was bookmaking pure- and simple. He had been allowed . -to set every'thin'g' on tihe^premiseiS} but cojild find nothing c.ovnecjted with racing ox wagering. Counsel for- the deface, asleed tha-t "the case I^e adjourned until a similtu case to be heard on Monday came ■before the Court. The adiournoneni ■ was granted.