"Two-up" in Wellington.
STRONG COMMENT 15Y TIIE CHIEF JUSTICE. (Per Press Association.) WEI.,LING TON, Dec. 9. Thw Crown entered a nolle prosequi in the cases against the principals charged wrMt keeping a gaming house known as the Olympic Clu'li, in which cases three juries had failed to agTee. The Chief Justice suid that two of the juries ciixl not ajnswer the \'ery plain 'question of whetlver tlve tossing of two peii'tiy jiieces was a game of chance. The result of the trial should cause heart searctaings in the community, and should he inquired into. If the precedent set by these juries was to be billowed, it seemed to him that there would be no use hereafter in trying any charge against any person for keeping a gamiiug house in Wellington. If the moral sense of some of our citizens was so [icrverteh by the gambling spirit it was l a question for the community whether the State should contrive to' legalise gambling from which it derives benefit. It was also a question whether unanimity oi jurors in criminal cases should he insisted on.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 10 December 1903, Page 3
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183"Two-up" in Wellington. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 10 December 1903, Page 3
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