Bookmaker’s Door Smashed Down By Police During Raid
(P.A.) Wellington, June 8 How he and Senior-Detective G. E. Callaghan had to break down a heavily bolted front door at 41 Plunket Street, and then subsequently saw £22 10s taken in bets within five minutes. was related by Senior-Detective E. H. Compton in the Magistrate’s Court today, when prosecuting Evelina Claudine Clareburt, aged 38, a domestic, on a charge of bookmaking. Accused, who pleaded guilty, was fined £lOO by Mr. H. J. Thompson, S.M. Senior-Detective Compton said that he and Senior-Detective Callaghan visited accused’s house cn Saturday, having to break in through the front door. The back door of the house was also found to be heavily bolted. Up until 1.15 p.m., said Compton, £438 had been taken in bets.
Pleading guilty to a charge of book-making, Thomas Joseph Senior, aged 32, a barman, was fined £2O by Messrs. H. G. Hume and W. B. Nicholson, J.P.’s m the Magistrate’s Court at Lower Hutt today.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 9 June 1948, Page 8
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