TWO-UP SCHOOL.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 277, 28 May 1907, Page 4

TWO-UP SCHOOL.

{ran raise association.] WeUington, May 27. At the Magistrate's Court this afternoon, there was a sequel to last week's raid on an aUeged two-up school in the city, one, Sydney Macnamara, being charged with .hcviug kept promisee at Abel Smith street as a common gaming school. Allan Verney, aged 20, employed as a clerk at the Telephone Exchange, said that on the evening of the Bth, he wont to defendant's premises. About seventy men were there playing twoup. The game was in progress when witness left at 1.30 in the morning. The players were seated round a ring. Every half hour a shiUing wa. collected from witness by Macnamara. Witness had been at the place fifteen or twenty times within a period of three months. 7be game was sometimes played in the afterncon, and defendant acted as ring keeper. Cross-examined : Witness said he was not on the premises when the rail was made. He had previously mad. a statement to a detective. 1 his detective had said if witness made a statement his name would not be used in the matter. Counsel : "Then you thought you could give some one else aray without being found out, ani that you would also save your position ? r ' Witness: "Yes." Counsel "You had refused until he toll you thatP" Witness: "Yes." Peter Terence Kinsella, a carpenter, gave evidence that he bad seen two-up played on the premises, but did not see the defendant Gorge Williams, a baker's driver, said he had seen twoup played in tne room, but did not j notice Macnamara. Evidence was given by the police concerning the I state of the room, and the manner in {which the entrance was arranged. Defendant reserved his defence, and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. On a charge of being found without lrwful excuse in a room kept as a common gaming house, sixty-five me-i i arrested in the raid last week xvptq to-night fined £3 each and costs. i