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HEAVY BEITING FINES.
Bad. Day for Victoria Park Shops
It was a bad day aor starting-price
bookmakers in Victoria Park on Satur
day. Twelve of them were arrested by
plainclothes constables during the after
noon and they were fined a total of
£392 by Mr. H. D. Moseley. P.M., in the
Perth Police court yesterday. Another
three men arrested at Inglewood were
mulct in fines totalling £120, so that the
aggregate penalties amounted to £512.
No person was ariested in the city or
any other Perth suburb on a betting
charge.
Fines were inflicted as follows:--Pr
having used premises in Albany-road,
Victoria Park, as a common betting shop,
John Jarv?i (27), labourer, was fined
£60, Frank Carson Harris (27), truck
driver, £50, John Charles Green (31),
labourer, £50 and Charles Daniel Curtin
(46), clerk, £50; for having assisted to
use various premises in Albany-road,
Victoria Park, Harry Kirby (59), clerk,
and Henry Francis O'Brien (35), hair
dresser, were each fined £30. and John
FPrederick Mlnson (22), labourer, Edward
Charles O'Brien (32). clerk, were each
fined £20. For having used premises in
Beaufort-street, Inglewood, Edward
Harold Grose (25), and John Thomas
Brown (39), clerk, were each fined £50
and for having assisted to use premises
in the same locality John Owens (32),
clerk was fined £20. Costs totalling
£7110/ were ordered to be paid.
Thomas James Harrold (35), labourer,
was fined £15 on a charge of having ob
structed pedestrian traffic in King
George-street, Victoria Park. Albert
Henry Buston (22), labourer, was fined
£10 on a similar charge, whilst Henry
Hall (41) was fined £7 for having ob
structed pedestrian traffic in Albany
road.
Cases at Fremantle.
Fines amounting to £16 were levied on
four shop and street bookmakers by Mr.
H. J. Craig S.M., at the Fremantle
Police Court yesterday. For having used
premises in Market-street, Fremantle, as
common betting shops, fines of £5 each
were imposed on Henry Thomas Lancas
ter (31), clerk; Allan Cecil Coyle (28),
clerk; and Arthur Holmes (27), clerk.
James Lindsay (26), labourer, was fined
£1 for having obstructed pedestrian traf
fic in Wray-avenue, Beaconsfield.
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