TWO-UP RAID IN SYDNEY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 70, 11 October 1920, Page 2

TWO-UP RAID IN SYDNEY.

FORTY-FIVE ARRESTED. A house in Little Albion Street, Surrey Hills, which had been under observation by the police, wag raided re-c-ntly, 4o men in the act of playing “two-up’’ being secured. The Telegraph’s x-eport of tlie raid says: The game was in progress when the police arrived. The lower floor of the uaildi g is used for cleaning rabbits, but in a loft above trestles had been placed around the side, and seats arranged around a mat in the centre. It was estimated that over OW men were in, the building, but those near the windows heard the police enter the lower portion, and about 20 escaped through this means. From the windows to the ground at the rear is a drop of about 12ft, but the escapees negotiated the jump in safety, mid before the police could get round had taken to their heels through houses in the rear of th© raided promises.

Slight resistance was offered by the remaining players, and the police arrested the men, who were taken to the Central Police Court in a patrol waggon, which took four trips to transport them all. At the station they appeared quite nonchalant, and. cmo man thanked the driver of the patrol for his “pleasant” ride.