NOT A SILVER BETTOR
CHARGE OF BOOKMAKING TOBACCONISCT FINED. [ Per Press Association J DANNEVIRKE, April 15. Pleading guilty to a charge of loitering in High street, Dannevirke, for the purposes of betting, William Joseph Donovan, who keeps a tobacconist bu-.-ness, was lined .£35 to-day by Mr J. Miller, S.M. The police stated that Donovan’s chief business was betting, and he believed he was an agent for a big bookmaker. The Magistrate declined to accept the plea of counsel for the defendant that Donovan was only a silver bettor, in view of the fact that over £5O was found on him after his arrest, which was the sequel to a cycle ride by »Sergeant Martin on March 30 last.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 90, 16 April 1929, Page 7
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