BOOKMAKERS AND THE LAW.
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—ln your paper two days, ago I read that the commissioner of police recommended that (bookmakers should not be tried by jury, but should be dealt with in the lower court, the reason being that juries would not convict these persons. That statement is rather a slur on the jurymen who have tried cases persons., have "been accused of breaches of the gaming law. Possibly the real explanation is that the police have toad nothing but circumstantial evidence to offer against these men, and as British juries give everyone justice it is only right that when such serious charges are not 'proven there should •be acquittals. Why, 1 ask, should a bookmaker oc any other man not have the privilege which murderers and the other worst offenders against 'our law have of being tried by jury? The Government legalises a gambling machine in the total'isator, yet would commit a bookmaker to gaol. 'Surely that is an injustice. What is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. Then both should 'be made legal.—l am, etc., SPORT.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1282, 17 August 1922, Page 5
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