POLICE RAID

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1932, Page 8

POLICE RAID

ALLEGED TWO-UPf SCHOOL

TWENTY-THREE MEN IN

COURT

Complaints made /to thepolice by wives of certain relief workers'; resulted in• Constables Baker: and.Anson visiting the Bussell terrace,relief works during the lunch hour on 22nd December, and the; subsequent appearance of twenty-throe';men at. the .Police Court to-day on' charges:of: playing, two-up.. • Sub-Inspector Lopdell told the Magistrate,. Mr. E. : Page, ~that..' the police had : received complaints .from the wives of relief workers at Russell terrace that they.. wei;e; unable to get the little money, that -their husbands had eatrned.as. they-had lost itat''two- :- up." Two members of "the Police Force: went to Bussoll terrace,; where they found the men now.: charged sitting :about in a. shelter shed. In. the centre of-the crowd.were men' throwing up pennies; When Constable Baker reached the door he; saw two pennies in thb..air, and heard one man say, "Two.to-1.- one'-on heads,?'.or something like that. Seven men admitted, that they were playing "two-up." The remainderrwere looking on, and the police submitted that in being present while the game was being played they were at least, abetting .the offence. Counsel, who represented all the defendants, suggested that;.there might have been sonje misunderstanding when the constable had them. Constable Baker said .that after the names and addresses ■of • all the> men had been taken he asked them if they* wished to say whether or nofc >jsty, were taking part in the-game. :T'ttiiil; answers 'were marked against . -ifteir names on the ■■iisti.". I The constable^ said he had done this, as he was of the opinion that some of the men, Avhom he knew-personally, were not gamblers: (Proceeding.) .