POKER ON TRAINS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 February 1914, Page 6

POKER ON TRAINS

iv. filKMiih 91 &.~bct& oaot-; j .tfomdnO' mutf mijXninastmmW' # 1 j Two travellers by the Main i lrunk v. j' 1 rWprif w^jfj^; I (^ , ay the'tims by - Vft-,quiet,.; Rftfefr, t |ttf« r •j strangers k®n at 1 1, } XttCfs toiiplis^^ . harm," as lie Had already yoni;s}x : ' i "tibn:- the • ; stvanger,3 i jw-iseltfes ar§-SergeanJt f l)a|g ; J formed the_two young men that they woud jje" HrongK"¥efore a .magistrate aafiat* «L«biCfisKib or the Police Offences - ® jOTWf § i ' Tho men anpeared in court to-day, charged with "playing a game <of chance'by'/gifting." Inspector McGrath asltetWeave to amend the: information and substitute a. charge unclqr . • as ' fast laid was :*,a.Uonds, wherefiSj'the present defend-' ; «ants were decent young fell9W> >. accordingly ,f tol oAe'of ■ gambling 'on a in.breafcli of, the Railway Ilegujooijis;';:;iU^ M ; ; , ,'^^ip^i- ? to£ t defendants;, _ enteric! o'bgujity. Counsel said that his clients had been having, as many did daily, a -g.ame of cards on a rail--way train coining to Auckland. . Inspector, McGrath : For money. His Worship remarked that, in his (l frcquiviitly saw peopfe play- • ing jcai-ds on trains, but lie very rarely spw .money,passing. . ! . ,Mr Singor": They can't p'ay ffoker : 1 witfioui a and your AYorsliip ntay have.noticed''that players often !.xise .matches. ." I'lit) present defend- , "ants' bought ,the fcarcls on one og tlie. . station platform®!''" |, A . His Worship remarked that tlie I'seller of the cards could.nr! presume I that'the purchasers- we"<■> going to ! /gamble with. them.'There was a seriobjection to playing for money : in a railway carriage, and tl"> railway regulation against it was a good one, as *a person .sometimes came across some smart gentleman'who induced some one from 1 the curitry to play for tlie purpose of talon;.- the latter. down. In thi;* case tlie defendants wore friends, who were playing . each other, and evidently not of the fraternity of tricky gentleman re-' , ferred to. The matter was consequent' ily not serious, and the defendants ' would bo fined 10s and 5s (3d costs each.