GAMBLING BEN AFLOAT
OWNERS’ WATERY GRAVE. (United Press Association. —By Electric i- 'Telegraph.—Copyright.) VANCOUVER, Dec. 11. A Los Angeles message says that o were drowned when; the barge “Blue Sea,” fitted with a social gambling device, sank during a storm, fifteen miles off San Pedro. The gamblers were driven from pillar to post on land, and several weeks ago moved aboard a luxurious barge, refitted from an old steamer, anchoring beyond the 12-mile limit. They did a tremendous business with launch parties from the shore.
The authorities were scratching their heads trying to figure a method of their suppression, when early to-day tile' storm came along and smashed the vessel, : which sank, carrying the five owners to watery graves.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1928, Page 6
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