RAID ON CHINESE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 167, 17 July 1922, Page 4

RAID ON CHINESE.

HOBSON STREET PREMISES. .' TWENTY-TWO ARRESTS. *jtg Police, under Chief-Detective MclJ* vener. last night raided ;i tw> storey building at t!l. HnWm Street, and arrested 22 Chines on gamin™ The raid was carefully planned, Shortly after seven o'clcvk the thiefDetective, with Detectives (/.Sullivan, .Ueiklejohn and O'Brien, and ( onHables Delaney and Marks joined (cmstabkj Duel, who had been watching the premises, and securing ami silencing & Chinaman who was coming out of the gate, the otlicers entered a room on the ground iloor, surprising a number of men and barring tliL'ir egress. There was a large sum of money on the table* and moiii'v in notes, gold, silver and I copper was also found in an upstairs I room, whilst what are alleged by tig I police to be gaming outfits were also I found. The Chinese were taken to the polied station in motor cars, whereafter the£ were brought before Mr. E. (J. Tivohill, J.P. Tommy Wang Duo was ehprged with keeping a common framing hous", where IJaing fJow, a garlic played witTi dominoes. w:is pond lie ted. and Lee Chew and Ah Tiling with being his assistants, whilst the other l.i men were charged with being fminr! in a commoa gaining house. Wang Doo was liberated! on bail of £100. his alleged assistants on bail of £50, and the others on bail of £o each, to appear before the Police Court this morning. Before Messrs. J. \V. Poyoton, 5.M.. ana E. Cγ. Twohill. -T.P.. at the Police Court this morning, Wong Doo (50) -was charged with Toeing the keeper of a common gaming house. A-h Hung (461 and Lee Chow (45). with having assisted it» the keeping of same, and charges of having "boon found in a common gaming house w-erc preferred against Loo An (2.i), Hung (32), Ah Soo (28)', Wua (22). Ah Wab (S7), She (30).Winjr Kong (IS). Wong Shiuro ("24). -Timmy Gee (20). Chen Jong (30), Ah Hong (22), Ah So (21). Wong Yee (42), Mong (20), All Kit (5-5), Wong Fong (24), Chan Fnn (2.0). Wong Ohung (23). Th* men were all remanded until Friday;'" nest.