RAID ON A GAMBLING DEN
CHRISTCHURCH. Au«;usr 15. About ten o'clock last night a large body of police made a raid on an alleged gaminghouse over a fish shop in Cashel street. An alarm was given at the bottom of the stairs when the police arrived, and lights were turned down and an attempt made to rush out, but this was prevented. Some twenty men were found on the premises, and on the floor a dice box and forty dice were discovered. The occupiers of the premises and nineteen others were handcuffed and taken to the police station. At the court to-day the proprietors were charged with being the keepers of a common gaming-house, and the remaining nineteen wore charged with being found in a gaminghouse without lawful excuse. The majority were young men under thirty years of age, some of them being residents in Christ, church, and others visitors from Wellington, Napier, and Dunedin. Williams, proprietor of the shop, was fined £25, and the others £2 each. On the floor of the room three bank notes of an extinct Melbourne bank were found, but were not traced to any particular individual. One of the men, Frank Burrows, was charged with attempting to pass a bank note similar to those found in the room en a Sydenham tradesman in exchapge for gwdi, and was remaned.
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Mt Benger Mail, Volume 17, Issue 850, 22 August 1896, Page 4
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225RAID ON A GAMBLING DEN Mt Benger Mail, Volume 17, Issue 850, 22 August 1896, Page 4
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