GAMING-HOUSE RAIDED
£IOO PENALTY IMPOSED BY MAGISTRATE
THIRTY MEN FINED £5 EACH
Following a police raid on the premises of the Civic Club, at 221 a Manchester street late on Friday night, Raymond Claude McHarus appeared in the Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., charged with keeping a common gam-ing-house.
Detective-Sergeant T. E. Holmes said the raid was made about 11.30 p.m. The door was strongly bolted and reinforced. Gaming instruments including a dice, a dice-box, and cards were found. The club was frequented by men with criminal records. McHarus was fined £IOO, in default three months' imprisonment.
Charged with being fcund at a common gaming-house, the following were each fined £5. in default 30 days' imprisonment:—Sidney George Trusler, Patrick Arthur Madden, Neil Munro, Angus Campbell, Ike Hanna, Cecil Herbert Bradley, Arthur Tapp, Herbert Oswald Whitfield, George Ronald Dalton. William Young, James Norton, William Garrett O'Connor. Andrew Ernest Hancock, Thomas Michael George. Harold Kevin Hawken, John James Murphy, Herbert Ormond.Aloysius Lawrence, Percival Vanca Cox,
James Corbett, Carl Larsen, John Neil Mundy, Frederick Innes, Francis Shaw, William Thomas Ford, Arthur Ernest Fowke, William Vernon Choate, Walter White, Percival Blades, John Newell. and Claude Wilfred Percival. . Hibib Reid, who pleaded not.guilty, was convicted and discharged.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22136, 5 July 1937, Page 4
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