DESCENT ON HAINING ST.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1982, 12 February 1914, Page 5

DESCENT ON HAINING ST.

- .BY THE POLICE. .'.,"■' ■ The Mount Cook police matte another descent last evening on a Haining Street house suspected of being a gambling don.' Two Chinese were ar-' rested. ■:'.. ■ "■' '...'■' ( ;; . Just before half-past- six, 'Constable Dunn strollocl into liOuso No. - 21; and . about'a. minute later Constable Wilson also walked down the alley-why leading '['. to . the housoV The visit was timed so : that 'the' constables would reach : the: '-house at'about the ,time when- they' thb'ught'that the result of'one of 1 the ■ banks.niightbe ill course of distribution."' : Just before Constable Wilson got to the door a Chinese went up to the entrance. '■and pushed what the police thought .■■'.'might bo.a'ibank ..result througli.Hlie "door.; The Chinese did not go : inside. '. Since the last'raid, wlien a distributor ; ; . .was arrested, the-practice is .to pu3h ,' 'the drawing under tlio door or through" : a hole in the door. Constablo Wilson '■■ arrested the man, who resisted', but he was : quickly secured, " and 42 .-result. .■•tickets were found on -him. -Dotectivc- ;: Sergeant .08530113 and' Constablo O'Connor then/appeared on tho scene, and took chargo of a considerable amount of pak-a-poo'paraphernalia. •' The arrested', men; iaro. Wong Ling,Jvho .will be charged to-day with having kept tlio; premises as a common gaming nbnse, aiid-Ali'Luni, who will be charged ■with having assisted in the management of a lottery.'--Tio maximum penalty for th". first-mentioned class of offence is £100, and for the other £200. The raid created a good deal of cx- - citement in .Haining Street, and all Chinatown turned out to discuss tho occasion..