LONDON GAMING RAID.
HEAVY FINES IMPOSED
(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) LONDON, January 13. , Roy MacKay and William Prose, for keeping a gaming house in Belgrav© square, were fined £500 each, with £15 15s costs. A cable message on December 17th last stated that tho polico raided a mansion near Belgrave square, and arrested twenty . persons of good social position. It was stated that a prominent lady lost £28,000 at Baccarat. The house, which was raided by fifty detectives, was "one of the largest gambling houses ever raided, in the West End.. The stakes and counters ranged from £1 to: £100. Th© players were bound over in sureties of £60/ and th© principals were remanded on bail.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19130115.2.88
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14564, 15 January 1913, Page 10
Word Count
115LONDON GAMING RAID. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14564, 15 January 1913, Page 10
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.