GAMBLING CLUBS RAIDED.
PANIC AMONG PATRONS
BONFIRE AIA.DE OF EQUIPMENT
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 13. On the Governor’s order heavilyarmed national guardsmen raided two fashionable clubs on the outskirts of the citv last night and seized elaborate gambling equipment, causing a panic among the 225 patrone. Alany of the®? were women, who fainted' and added to tlie excitement. Fifty men attacked a newspaper photographer. whom the guardsmen rescued unconscious. The equipment was later destroyed and burned in a bonfire. A considerable amount of money left on the tables will revert to the State.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 August 1928, Page 5
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102GAMBLING CLUBS RAIDED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 August 1928, Page 5
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