A SPOILT PARTY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 234, 2 October 1929, Page 16

A SPOILT PARTY

SLY-GROG RAID IN SYDNEY FIGHT WITH THE POLICE Wild bursts of -song rang through the corridors of a block of fiats in King's Cross Road, says the Sydney Sun. A saxophone whinnied, glasses clinked, three girls and four youths sang. One girl cried. Just ‘as the revelry was getting into its stride police raiders walked in. “Into them!” shouted someone in the party, and in a flash detectivesergeant and two other detectives found themselves in as lively an affair as could be seen outside the ropes. Fists flew. Glassware was shivered. Furniture was upset. Out of the dust of conflict the police emerged with four prisoners. When the welkin resounded to the mournful mouthfuls of “You made me love you when I made you cry,’’ De-tective-sergeant Miller and Detective Lawless and Noble tapped on the door. A pair of bell-bottomed naval trousers flapped their way along a carpeted hall. They were worn by a pretty girl about 19 years of age with a tumble of blonde curls. She also wore a naval man’s singlet and a silk shirt. There were splashes of blood on the shirt, and her eyes were red from crying. As the party had grown convival, someone in the course of a hectic hornpipe had smacked her on the nose, so she told the police. Three youths, wearing only shirts and trousers, were dancing with three girls. Another man Was pouring out beer. ‘ ‘Let the Jacks In! ” “What! You let ‘the jacks’ in!’’ snarled one of the dancers in disgust. “We don’t want any ‘snoodling’ here. We’ll show ’em!’’ Flinging their partners aside, the men leapt at the detectives and * wild fight began amid a tangle of chairs. The girls screamed and three of them made a dash for a window. A man in naval uniform followed them. “We won’t let them spoil our party,” shouted one of the men, fighting among the wreckage of glasses and spilt beer. Round the room swept the battle. Antagonists stumbled and fell and got up again and went on fighting. It was fast and fierce. After a lively five minutes the detectives mastered the three youths and handcuffed them. Searching the flat, they found 84 bottles of beer, 7£ empty bottles, and 14 glasses. The •girl in the trousers said that they were only having a “bit of an evening.” Miller and Lawless did not accept the story, as they had been watching the flat. At Darlinghurst Police Court they charged the youths with having sold liquor without a license, and the girls with having been found on the premises.