TWO-UP PROSECUTION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2091, 28 May 1907, Page 2

TWO-UP PROSECUTION.

A YOUNG MAN’S MISTAKE.

Press Association. WELLINGTON, last night. At the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon there was a sequel to last week’s raid on an alleged two-up school in the city, one Sydney Macnamara being charged with having kept premises at Abel, Smith-street, as a common gaming-house. Allan Verney, aged 20, employed as clerk at the telephone exchange, said that on the evening of May Btli he went to defendant’s premises. About 70 men were there playing two-up. The game was in progress , when witness left at 1.30 inj the j morning. The players were seated 1 round a ring. Every half-hour a i shilling was collected from witness by 1 Macnamara. Witness liad been at ■ the place fifteen or twenty times | within a period of three months. The j game was sometimes played in the afternoon. Defendant acted as ring-

keeper. ~ , Cross-examined, witness said he was not on the premises when the raid was made. He had previously made a statement to a detective. This detective had said that if witness made the statement it would not ho used in the matter. - Counsel: Then you thought you could give someone away without being found out, and that you would also save your position?

Witness: Yes. ;'r --* Counsel: You had refused until ho told you that? Witness: Yes.

Peter Terence Kinsella, a carpenter, gave evidence that he had seen two-up played on the premises. He did not see the defendant.

George Williams, a baker’s driver, said he had seen two-up played ,at the room,.but did not notice Macnamara. Evidence was given by the police concerning the state of the room and the manner in which the entrance was arranged. Defendant reserved his defence, and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. On a charge of being found without lawful excuse iu a room kept as a common gaming-house, 65 men, arrested in the raid last week, were to-night fined £3 and costs.