"TWO-UP" AGAIN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 2

"TWO-UP" AGAIN.

Clias. Dunn and Frank Moirah, tv. - o burly men, \>cre chaiged befoio Dr. M'Aithur, S.M , yesterday afternoon with having wounded Gustaf Grenberg with intent to do him grievous bodi'y luu m. The informant, a labourer, deposed that he went to Dunn'b place in Eller'savenue about 11 o'clock on the night of 4th May. Theie were about fourteen or fifteen men -theie. When witness v, ont into the p'uee they wore p'uying two-up. Witness took a fund in the game for about tluec-quartcrs of an- hour. lie played for money, and won between £8 and £9. Then he stopped playing. The others kept on playing. Witness, in ttonniiig, s-aid : "If that man heads them on me I won't pi ty any mure." Dunn went over and spoke with Morrah, and leturning said: '"Ain't you going on':" Witness replied: "Xo No more." lie stayed thue tor about five minutes, and then wug ju'ot al:out to go out -vyhen Morrah taid : 'T w.mt £5 change." Witness said he enh had £1. Morrah replied :"1 wi\nt £5." Wilncs addoJ : "Ihen you can't get anything at all." Accuse 1 said £'\ A\ould do him, and witness went into n ropin with him U> count the change. Witness put *he money down and accu-cd picked up the last pound laid down and placed it in front of him. WitncFi a--kccl : '"Where aro the four soveieign ,':" M^orrah icplicJ: "There is only tlucc-fifteen." Witness said he knew what he put down. Morrah asked if ho di v pitod his word. Witness replied : "Xo , male. No change. " Ho then put his head over tho table to pick up the change and wu& Mruck three, times over the head with v bottle. Dunn thon ru&hed in and struck witness with a chair. Dunn w.\s about to srrikc witness r< ee-.ond time when a man took the cliair from him and sr id: "You must bo a coward to strike a man lying on the table i:cii :leid." Both r.ccu; od then punched him. l)unn in striking him fcaid : "Take that you ; tint is how v/e knock them out in the Sydney t«o-up school"." Wit-ne-s only got £3 back. Witness's wounds bled freely. 110 wps a.'-fisted by a man nanied Uolierty, and afterwards'went outside and got a constable. The latter took him to v doctor. Witness was laid up in bed for five days in convenience of hit. woundfc. *Ho had bfon to tl:e p;enii£S3 on about twelve dih'erci.t occaiiens. and pl.ivod two up. In crosi-examinntion by Mr. Wilford, v.-it!i(":3 t. : c ! . ho y.'c.e <i Russian. He had tv fitht "i.-ilh .■•, maa iccnrtly, but did not fell" him v.ith a stone after the fight waa over. He did not throw a man ilu orpin a wi'idpw at Br.rictt's Hotel on 3rd Jlry. ITo'did not flourish a razor before a, room full of men. Witness and another had never rßsculted a man named Jaul'^on so severely that ha had to po to tho hospital. Witness did rot ir.c'a bottJp r.'.id ft club on a man named Snowy at the biscuit faotojy. He could ,not nnr.wer as to whether or iiot he had "'bee.i tlnov.'n over a bsnniFtcr in .a building iv \Y<*lliii£-lon a nd fallen a' di r tant'o of Kft for calling a loom-full of men an uiiinenttoiicbls isarjp Dr. Fell deposed thaf tho mfurrcrnt had five or six cuts at tho back of tlio head. Thsy wore ail cut to (he bo'ie. i Ona was Hires inches 'ong and the rthors' j were half or a quartci of an inch long. | ! Alax Wolfe, ldbourer. gave ovidencs to the effect that he played two-up at premises in question in ILller's-lano on the night of W\ May. Ho h-ard a scufllo in ! an adjoining room, ami st-.w/Nfrirnh bit t Greiibfug across the hc?d v.'i*h'n bolt!o; then Dunn raised a chair to , strike j Gienborg, and witness took it from him. lie did not know \» bother Dunn had I previously struck Gienbcrg with tho chair. . Both Dunn and Morrah struck him with their fists. In cross axfuninatiun, witness said he was a German. Ho was a mato of Grenborjr's. Ho did not know who started tho row. Oranberg and witness did not " knock Jackson out " oi a previous oc casion, causing hhn to irr> to tho hospital. Mr. Wilford sat down after crossexamining tho witness, and then asked pei mission to put another question His Worship replied Ihit he had already given a great deal of latitude in the caso, so that tho nowGpapers, if they had space, coulet throw somo light on twe-up schocls. He did not think counhti\ rhouiil gw any fiutl»er, -'vl this stage, tho accustct wera further remanded until 2.15 on 7th June.