GAMBLING DEN AFLOAT.
Owners’ Watery Grave. barge sunk in storm. (Sun Cable). VANCOUVER, December 11. A Los Angeles message says that five were drowned when the barge “Blue Sea,” fitted with a special gambling device, sank during a storm, fifteen miles off San Pedro. The gamblers were driven from pillar to post on land, and several weeks ago moved aboard a luxurious barge, refitted from an old steamer, anchoring beyond the twelve mile limit. They did a tremendous business with launch parties from the shore. The authorities were scratching their heads trying to figure a method of their suppression, when early today the storm came along and smashed the vessel, which sank, carrying the five owners to watery graves.
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Grey River Argus, 13 December 1928, Page 5
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119GAMBLING DEN AFLOAT. Grey River Argus, 13 December 1928, Page 5
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