CASE UNDER THE GAMING AND LOTTERIES ACT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1064, 22 April 1882, Page 4

CASE UNDER THE GAMING AND LOTTERIES ACT.

The police brought up from the] Thames by the Kotomahaua on Satur- I day a man named Charles McDonald, t who had been sentenced to three months imprisonment, without the option of a line, for allowing card playing in his house. The case has waled considerable stir at the Thames i ami there is a strong feeling in favor I of the prisoner. Sergeant O’Grady | deposed that he had obtained a warrant | to enter McDonald’s premises :n > Brown-street. and did so shortly after I 12 on the 9th lust. Having placed ! constables in the rear, he knocked at the door, which, after some delay was j r.per.ed by defendant, who rushed to ; the back followed by witness. In the ; back room Parslow and Fitzpatrick were playing cards. Witness took , the names of the players, and the cards from their hands. The names of other persons present were taken, after which they were allowed to depart. A good many old cards wire on the .f100r—33.3 in all. Several other witnesses were examined. The Dench (Dr Kilgour and Mr Murray), -alter consultation, said they had come to the conclusion that defendant was guilty. With reference to contentation by Mr Miller, they held that under the Act an unlawful game of cards had been proved, and defendant would have to undergo imprisonment for three months. The Court mentioned that under the provisions of the new Gaming and Lotteries Act, which were very stringent, any person slaving a game of cards could be charged with a breach of the law, and would be liable to conviction if he failed to prove it was not an unlawful game. If this definition of the law be correct, then a good many persons in Auckland will be liable to imprisonment, —-V. /I. Herald.