"FIVE BOB IN"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 6

"FIVE BOB IN"

A PRIVATE SWEEP FIFTEEN MEN BEFORE THE COURT [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Alay 20. Because they had taken part in a sweep at. Ellerslie on April .16, on the Easter Handicap, 15 men were charged with being partners in a lottery at the Police Court this morning. Air A. Aloody, who appeared for all the defendants, said he would admit the facts. Chief Detective Cummings said that on the date mentioned a detective called at a house at Ellerslie and found a sweep in progress. It was conducted by one man and the entrance was 5s each. The lottery was on the Easter Handicap, and the total amount received was to go to the winner, with the exception of £1 5s to buy beer with. “There does not appear to be anything much in that. Nearly everybody has gone in for a sweep at some time or other. They have them in clubs too,” said the Alagistrate (Air F. K. Hunt). “Yes, but we. don’t always get into the clubs,” said the detective. Air Aloody said all who participated in the sweepstake were friends. The Alagistrate: A sweepstake a.mo'hg friends is no harm at all. All the cases will be dismissed under Section 92, but your clients had better not do it again. “Does your Worship hold that the prosecution has not proved its case? That they have been dismissed for want of proving the prosecution?” asked Chief Detective Cummings. “No, not at all. I have no doubt that you did the right thing. I have dismissed the cases as trivial,” was the reply.