"PENNY-IN-THE-SLOT" GAMING MACHINE.
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Mastkrton, Monday. John I'aLMT.STKR was ordered to-day to pay a fine of £5, or in default to undergo one month's imprisonment, for keeping an instrument of gaming. The " instrument" in questior was ;• penny-in-the-slot machine, by which the investor obtained a cigar if the penny fell into a certain groove. The defence was that the game was one of skill. The defendant gave an exhibition of the working of the machine in Court. Out of 10 .shots he secured only one prize. The machine and 75 pennies, which it contained, were confiscated by the police.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12861, 9 May 1905, Page 5
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