ONE SUNDAY MORNING

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 124, 29 May 1922, Page 8

ONE SUNDAY MORNING

'A QUIET GAME OF "TWO-UP"

DISTURBED BY A POLICE RAIDi

}?£ secluded valley "below "Vogeltown oaa been ihe scene > for some weeks past of a "two-up school," and the police have been keeping a close watch. Their efforts were rewarded yesterday morning; and as a result of a well-executed raid,' conducted by Sergeant vM'Kelvie rind.! a party of police, sixteen members pf the school were placed under arrest. This mqrning the. men were lined up befQira Mr. F:*.,K.' Hunt, S.M.,;,and charged ,#Jth playing in a public place with coins . and; a shaker at a certain game of chance known as two-up. y;,TJ)e names of' trfose charged were :— 'JSmes Smith, John Millar, Alfred Bpwan Payne, Lawrence Dobson, Joseph 'Richards, Charles Frederick Hobbs, . Charles Killein, Thomas Pauling, John Ernest Love, Arthur Barkham, David •'■Birrell, James Grant, Richard Haylock, Percy James Braithwaite, Johu James, i and; Thomas Joseph Ryan. j£A!s the Clerk'of the Court ran through the names all pleaded guilty, with the exception of James, who ■ chose to defend the issue., .Mr., C: A.' L. Treadwell appeared on behalf of Killoin. SubIn'spectoi' M'Namara represented the police ;;The Sub-Inspector said that for some considerable time past the game of ''twoup," in an amended form, had been played in a "public reserve at' Berham-" p6re. The mode of-play was to put the pennies in a "shaker" instead of throwing; the pennies into ; the; air by means of a kip. This sort of thing had been going on for some time. On the 7th of tsie present month two strangers—as far as, the players were concerned, at least —got into the school, and similar visits were paid.on. 14th and 21st May.-. The school ran from something like 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The greatest number of players at any time was 32, and the amount that passed between the players Was anything from £60 to £100. Men o£ all sorts played there,, arid several of ! thern were there yesterday for the .first time. On the other hand, some of the most prominent, .'.'scholars" were, not present yesterday:'" 'The' raid was; carried1 out at 11.30 o'clock on Sunday. ' tiforning, and as a result the sixteen'men .wjjre arrested. •'jThe Sub-Inspector-then' called' evi- 1 dence as to the presence at the school o|;>James and Payne (who did not. appear). ■■-.Walter Lewis Pellew,' a probationary constable, said that he was present at the;school. Payne and James were betting yesterday when the raid was carried out. • .. . „ .'. . 5 Sub-Inspector M'Namara: "Who was the ring-leader?"—"Scotty Millar." ■'James, in the box, said he jwas an engineer. He denied, having been in the game, and said that every fine mornijig he had been in the habit of going lip on to the hills. ••■ •Sub-Inspector M'Namara: "Yon.were just taking a walk on tho hills'"— -"Yes " "And having a little game?"—"No, not at all " were you lunmng away?"— ''There was a very spiuted horse on the hill, and I ►was running a-way from "2'^And you ran into "the, arms of a policeman'"—"YesI'™- - • "The Magistrate convicted all the de. j lendants, and fincd v them each £3