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Barber Raymond Colucci paid a $100 fiine and received a six-months sentence--suspended for 12 months--yesterday morning in Third District Court. The fine was for "setting up and promoting a lottery" (the numbers pools); the sentence to a house of correction was imposed for "registering a bet on the speed of a horse...
City police inaugurated a full-scale crackdown on Harvard Square gambling yesterday with a noon-time raid on Ray's Barber Shop at the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets. Barging into the basement shop, they apprehended three College students who admitted placing bets with barber Ray Colucci, both yesterday morning and on previous days during the past year...
According to police, Colucci confessed in a Central Square headquarters quiz that he had "taken a few bets from time to time...
...Colucci has allegedly confessed to accepting both horse race wagers and bets on "numbers." Police found no slips, chits, or other evidence in the shop; they explained that Colucci probably kept the numbers and horses in his head, and phoned them in to some bookmaking headquarters soon after they were placed...
...Colucci's arrest should be a warning to the others," Stokes asserted last night. "They know who they...