TEN ARRESTED.
WELL-PLANNED RAID. ALLEGED GAMING HOUSE. CLEVER POLICE WORK. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. Ten men appeared in the Magistrate's Court to-day ae a result of a wellplanned police raid on premises in Hood Street last evening. It was the first raid of its type in the town for about ten years. By a subterfuge the police encouraged the doorkeeper to go downstairs to the street door and to open an inner door, which guarded a passage upstairs, j jufv/the dobir was opened, two constaSlee. slipped, in behind the dporkeeper I arii i'caught the men in an - 5 alleged gambling school upstairs before they could be warned. In the Court to-day Nelson Joseph McKnight (35), plumber and boxing instructor, was charged with allowing his premises to be used as a common gaming house between April 10 and last night. He was remanded on bail of £100 until Monday. The nine others were charged with being on the premises, and were also remanded till Monday. They were Roderick Treleaven, Keith Morris, Erin Bain. Norman Wallace, Norman Davies, Hector Freeman Wilcox, Raymond C'hilds, Edward Richard O'Brien and Colin Browne.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1938, Page 12
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189TEN ARRESTED. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1938, Page 12
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