GAMING-HOUSE KEEPER
ACCUSED PLEADS GUILTY. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 2L On March II last, Carl Petersen Lindegreen was convicted and lined £lOO by Mr E. Page, S.M., on a charge of assisting Alfred George Clements in keeping a common gaming house st Nelson. Three other charges of assisting Clements to make bets on horse racing at totalisator odds, printing a document containing statements as to divide ends paid on totalisator investments and publishing documents of a like character were adjourned pending Ml Page’s return from EnglandYesterday Lindegreen pleaded guilty to three adjourned charges before Mr Hunt, S.M. Chief-Detective Kemp explained that Lindegreen had called on him stating that he had relinquished his position as organising secretary of the Dominion Sportsmen’s Association and was going to Christchurch to enter business. Defendant said he did not want these charges hanging over him like the sword of Damocles, and said that he would plead guilty under the circumstances. “We ask merely for a conviction. ” “Very well,” said the Magistrate. “Convicted and discharged on ths three charges.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 2
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174GAMING-HOUSE KEEPER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 2
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