PERILS OF "TWO-UP."
"HOW WE KNOCK. 'EM OUT IN
SYDNEY."
[BY TELEGRAPH. rBESS • ASSOCIATION'.]
' ' ' * Wellington, Friday. At the Police Court , to-day Charles Dunn and Frank Morrah, alias James Morrah, were charged with having assaulted and wounded Gustav Grenberg. The evidence •of Grenberg was that on the night of May 4 he went to Dunn's'place, in File's Avenue, where the -two accused and fourteen others . were playing two-up. Witness won £8 or £9 and then stopped playing. After a time witness '. went ;.' into another room to give Morrah change for £5. They had a dispute, and Morrah struck witness three times over the head with a bottle, and Dunn attacked him with a chair, remarking "That's how we knock 'em out in Sydney two-up schools." Witness was afterwards in bed five days, and had to be attended by a doctor. The case was adjourned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13453, 1 June 1907, Page 6
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