A GAMBLING DEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2854, 28 October 1890, Page 2

A GAMBLING DEN.

RAID BY THE POLICE. (|JY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION). Wei,linbton. Last Night. » About 10 o'clock lust night Detectives-' Campbell and Herbert raided a place of business in Willis-street, which for a long time was supposed to be a resort of Ramblers. By a piece of strategy the detectives managed to gain admittance at the first door, but as soon as the door-keeper saw he had been had "he touched an electric bell which gave a signal in the gambling room and all the lights were extinguished, and thpro was a general rush to get outside. A dice box, thickly padded, was found in the gambling room, but a very small amount (if cash was collected, and as it is mostly small silver pieces, it is supposed the game played was hazard. There was also a large table in the room with long forms, each of which would accommodate about forty persons. Belween twenty and thirty men of the spieler class were in the room but only the names of fourteen were obtained and they will be summoned together with the proprietor of the house. The police have laid an information against Charles Cress, the proprietor of the shop which they raided last night, charging him with keeping a gambling house.