MINING STREET RAID
CA.MBLERS IN COURT. (Onited Pbess Association.) WELLIXOTOXV Mav 4. Tlit> prosecutions following upon the police raid on the Chinese "quarter in Haii-Jiiir-strect, on 19th April, were gone into before Mr 1). (;. A. Coo]>er, 5..M., to-dav. Seventeen Chinese appeared on remand, charged with having been concerned in or found upon a . common gaming house. •Seven large" cases alleged to eonlain pakapoo tickets, (about a ton weight), were brought into the Court as exhibits, and a quantity of other alleged gambling paraphernalia also littered the Court room. Ah Yep was charged with keeping a common gaming house, and Ah Gee with assisting in the management thereof. Fifteen other Chinese appeared on a charge that they were found in a common gaming house. Ah Yep was convicted and sent to gao] for two iroiiths. The charge against Ah Gee was dismissed. and the hearing of ihose against the other accused was adjournThe Court issued an order for the destructicn of the gambling gear.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 5 May 1914, Page 7
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