WOMENS’ POKER CLUB BROKEN UP.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3652, 12 October 1912, Page 4

WOMENS’ POKER CLUB BROKEN UP.

WIVES WHO NECLECTED THEIR HOMES.

HOUSEKEEPING MONEY USED FOR STAKES.

Exciting scenes occurred in Berlin the other evneing, when the police made a sudden descent upon a women’s poker club.

The affair had some extraordinary features. But for the husbands of the women by whom the club was patronised the existence of this gambling den might never have become known to the authorities.

The men whose wives were nearly always to be found at the club, instead of at their homes, not unnaturally got tired of this sort of thing. It was not only the way in which the women were neglecting their many little domestic obligations that annoyed their husbands. That was had enough, but what aroused more indignation among many of the men was the discovery that their frauen had been using for stakes the money given to them for housekeeping purposes.

The husbands therefore determined to have the poker club wiped out, and this accomplished easily enough, for they had only to acquaint the authorties of its existence, and the police would do the rest.

When the club premises were surrounded the women were seized with panic, as they nearly all belong to good families, and naturally dreaded the exposure that would follow. Gambling was in full swing at the time of the raid but tlie police found little money in the hank, a circumstance that was attributed to the 'act that it was near the end of the month, and that the womens’ monthly alb'vances were about exhausted.

The club, however, has been, broken up, and the men who engineered tlie raid are now looking forward 1o the enjoyment of a little more of their wives’ society than they have had lor a long time past,