Evening Post, 30 May 1940
Fined For Bookmaking George Prime, aged 60, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court today to a charge of bookmaking was fined £10 by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle said Prime was a widower and for the past twelve months had had a room in a private hotel. Yesterday afternoon a constable interviewed him in connection with another matter and he admitted frankly that he had been bookmaking in a small way for the past six months. He handed over a quantity of betting material which showed he had operated only in a small way. The accused had stated that his board of £2 5s and the cost of his telephone had been paid by another bookmaker and his commission averaged only 15s a week. He had been convicted in 1929 of sly grog-selling. To the Magistrate Prime said he had just been an agent.
Fined For Bookmaking George Prime, aged 60, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court today to a charge of bookmaking was fined £10 by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle said Prime was a widower and for the past twelve months had had a room in a private hotel. Yesterday afternoon a constable interviewed him in connection with another matter and he admitted frankly that he had been bookmaking in a small way for the past six months. He handed over a quantity of betting material which showed he had operated only in a small way. The accused had stated that his board of £2 5s and the cost of his telephone had been paid by another bookmaker and his commission averaged only 15s a week. He had been convicted in 1929 of sly grog-selling. To the Magistrate Prime said he had just been an agent.
Evening Post, 30 May 1940
Fined For Bookmaking George Prime, aged 60, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court today to a charge of bookmaking was fined £10 by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle said Prime was a widower and for the past twelve months had had a room in a private hotel. Yesterday afternoon a constable interviewed him in connection with another matter and he admitted frankly that he had been bookmaking in a small way for the past six months. He handed over a quantity of betting material which showed he had operated only in a small way. The accused had stated that his board of £2 5s and the cost of his telephone had been paid by another bookmaker and his commission averaged only 15s a week. He had been convicted in 1929 of sly grog-selling. To the Magistrate Prime said he had just been an agent.
Fined For Bookmaking George Prime, aged 60, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court today to a charge of bookmaking was fined £10 by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle said Prime was a widower and for the past twelve months had had a room in a private hotel. Yesterday afternoon a constable interviewed him in connection with another matter and he admitted frankly that he had been bookmaking in a small way for the past six months. He handed over a quantity of betting material which showed he had operated only in a small way. The accused had stated that his board of £2 5s and the cost of his telephone had been paid by another bookmaker and his commission averaged only 15s a week. He had been convicted in 1929 of sly grog-selling. To the Magistrate Prime said he had just been an agent.
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