GAMBLERS’ TERROR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 28 November 1935, Page 2

GAMBLERS’ TERROR

Known as the gambling gangsters’ j terror, Police -Constable Frederick James Chase retired recently from the London Aletropolitan Police Force after 25 years’ service. When he first went to Commercial Street Police Station, in the early days of his service, he played a big part in countering the activities of gamblers, racecourse gangs and dope smugglers. So expert did he become in raiding gaining houses and illegal clubs that he was ‘‘borrowed’’ from time to time to take part in raids all over London. During eight years of his service, he secured convictions in which the lines totalled over £(>000. but still had a good word to say for his adversaries. >’• wc’-e always good sports,” he said, ‘ ’ and w hen they knew r they were i. piayetl the game.” Only once did he carry firearms, and that was when, with Superintendent Budd, now also retired, they raided a gambling club where the proprietor had uireatened he would “do for” the police if they worried him. Even then, they had no need to use them. Recently he has been attached to Dalston Lane Police Station, and is now going to settle down in the country. Sergeant Chase is a Freeman of the City of London, and a member of the Guild of Freemen of London.-