TWO-UP SCHOOL.
RECENT RAID AT SHANNON.
Another defendant concerned in the recent two-up raid at Shannon, John William Fitzgerald, appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court pt Palmerston yesterday charged with having played' the game of chance known as two-up,-at the old Shan-non-Foxton road on November 26, 1922.
-Detective-Sergeant Quirke said that the defendant together with a number of others, were in attendance at a two-up school in the place mentioned. Twenty-eight had been convicted for the offence recently, but the defendant had not been served at that time with the summons. Defendant said that on the Jafternoon in question he was going down to the “school” when he met a friend some distance from the assemblage and returned to an hotel in town. He harl an acquaintance who could prove his whereabouts on that day.
His Worship said that defendant ■was'in the vicinity of the place and had been identified by the constables. He would have to be dealt with the same as the others and would be fined £5 and costs 7s.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2536, 30 January 1923, Page 3
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178TWO-UP SCHOOL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2536, 30 January 1923, Page 3
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