GAOL FOR BOOKMAKERS
TARANAKI CONVICTIONS. By TelegraDh—Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, June 10. Three bookmakers were sentenced to terms of hard labour by Mr Justice Reed to-day, as a sequel to a police raid in New Plymouth and Stratford recently. William I~:nry Lash (Stratford) and Robert Mascall (New Plymouth) were each sentenced to three months’ hard labour and ordered to pay £25 costs, in default an .her month. Sydney Roy Lovell (New Plymouth) in whose case the jury disagreed, but Who changed his pjea to guilty on one count, was sentenced to two months’ hard labour and to pay costs £25, or another month. Frederick Charles Hawkes (New Plymouth), recommended to leniency by the jury, was ordered to come up for sentence within two years, on condition that he paid £lO costs within a month, and also took out a prohibition order, and abstain from laying odds or backing horses.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19513, 12 June 1933, Page 11
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149GAOL FOR BOOKMAKERS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19513, 12 June 1933, Page 11
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