The “Two-up” School.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 44, 31 May 1907, Page 5

The “Two-up” School.

Wellington, May 29. As the result of the recent Police raid, Sydney Macnamara was charged with having kept premises at Abel Smith Street as a common gaming school. Allan Verney, clerk at the Telephone Exchange, aged twenty, gave evidence that he had seen about seventy men playing "two-up" on defendant’s premises. He left at half-past one in the morning, and the game was still going on. He had been at the place fifteen or twenty times within a period of three months. Shillings had been collected from him by Macnamara, He told a detective what he saw, and was told that his name would not be used. Peter Terence Kinsella, a carpenter, and George Williams, a baker's driver, both gave evidence of seeing " twoup" played on the premises. After the Police had given evidence of what they saw on the night of the raid Macnamara was committed for trial at the Supreme Court. The sixty-five men who were arrested in the school were charged with being found, without lawful excuse, in a room kept as a common gaming-house. The cases were finished this evening, and each of the men 1 was fined £3, with costs.