A POLICE RAID

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 14

A POLICE RAID

SIXTY-FIVE ARRESTS ALLEGED GAMING MATERIAL SEIZED, SECRET SYSTEM OF SIGNAL BELLS [P*» u sited Press Association,] CHRISTCHURCH, March 30 Sixty-five persons were arrested bf, a party of about __ twenty policemen, including uniform and plain clothes constables and detectives under Chiefdetective Dunlop, when the}' raided the premises of the Gloucester Club, in Gloucester street, at IT3O last evening. The charges will refer to keeping and being found in a common gaming house. Three car loads of police arrived from the station and parked their cars some way from the club. They then'advanced in separate bodies, and though the door is usually bolted, they managed to get in without breaking in * The raid came as a complete surprise to the men in the club. As many of the men as possible were bailed out, but the rest* were kept in. custody till the morning. Secret systems of signal bells and all manner of paraphernalia, which the police will allege was used for gaming, and miscellaneous material, including tables, chairs, and electric wiring equipment, were packed into the police van in the early hours for conveyance to the police station. Several constables ripped the, boards off the stairs and uncovered the signal bells. The men arrested during the raid included some trotting drivers, some licensed jockeys, and some Government servants, A jockey -was discovered hiding in a small cupboard.