RAIDS IN BRISBANE.
dYER 170 NAMES TAKEN,/" . BRISBANE, May||7. ' In. connection with the raid on tjfo-up schools m Elizabeth street and Fortitude Valley late on Friday night, the police, m plain (Slothes, overpowered the rdoc-r---keepera f before they were able to give the alarm. ,At the 'same moment motor cars dashed up with uniformed police, who rushed the rooms. They found m the Elizabeth street room 100 men seated on a circular form around the floor, which was padded to muffle the sound of the; falling coins.
The. men made a mad rush to escape, but the . police, with their batons, prevented them. The names of over 100 men m, this building were taken, with a view to prosecution.
Similar methods were adopted at the! Valley,' where 71 names were taken. One, rjian attempted to escape by leaping from a window 30ft from the ground, but his fall was broken by a sloping roof, and he was uninjured. One man ; threw away a combined knuckleduster, revolver^ and dagger.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)
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168RAIDS IN BRISBANE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)
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