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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 102, 9 May 1901, Page 3

The Melbourne police made a very successful raid on a gambling den in Market Lane, off Bourke street, at 1 o’clock on the morning of Sunday, 21st April, securing no less than 110 prisoners. The lane in which the house was situated is an evil-looking spot, and has an unenviable notoriety. The habitues of the gaining den were, for the most part, pickpockets, house-breakers, assault and robbery men, and criminals of every hue and class. Some days before the raid a voung and unknown constable, dressed as a larrikin, and well versed in their ways, gained admittance, and subsequently introduced five-other unknown men, who had been gradually gaining experience and evidence. Sixty detectives and plain-clothes police were engaged in the morning’s raid. So well had the plans been laid that not a single person in the house got away. One man, a wharf lumper, who said his luck was in, had about LlO in his pockets as the result of his transactions since noon on Sunday. The style of gambling indulged in _ is popularly known as " two-up,”