Altogether Ten. Gaming Tables Found in the Two Establ agents: Luxurious Equipment of 151 C
The police carried out raids on two gambling places on, Sunday, one rieing in Yates Road, and the other the "Wheel" at 151C' Bubbling Well Road.
On Sunday afternoon Capt. W..G. Clarke was. walking, apparently sunlessly along Yates Road, whew he suddenly turned into No. 5a [where he-found on the ground floor apparatus for card games, dice, ete. while on another floor he discovered two roulette wheels. There were servants on the premises at the time, but no players.
Ho immediately closed the place and telephoned to Acting Commi sioner Aiers, Chief Det. Insj Gilbert and Insp. Foley from Bubbling Well and a party of police, all of whom at once went to 151 Bubbling Well Road Entrance was obtained, the necessary authority having been obtained. There were no players on the prem-isos, but servants were there paring food.
Both places were locked up, police placed on guard, and everything closed for the night.
Never-have the police made such 'a haul of gambling paraphernalia Years ago the raid on the Alhambra. yielded one wheel and that on the North Honan establishment one, which on examination proved to be a fake, capable of being stopped unperceived at any point. There is nothing of this sort in the places raided on Sunday, but evidence enough that the gambling must have been a lucrative business, tables found in Yates Road Seven different sorts of gaming
and three in Bubbling Well Ron Chinese Tastes in Gaming ground floor visitors could be me spected on entering through a peep hole in the door, and, if suspicions were aroused, there was an electric alarm up to the gaming room, Entrance to the larier was secured by elaborate bolts and chains, On the floor below that on which the roulette tables were found are a number pf rooms presumably for private gambling, There ig also an excellently fitted dining room, largo kitchens, a roof garden and abundant "sitting out" space. All. the jins are most comfortably. furnished, and decorated with undaub ed taste. The dining room panelled in'teak, the roulette room papered with landscape scenes; and hangings, carpets and upholeteringy are of soft greys and browns, The roulette tables also are of far superior make to those in Yates Road and covered in something ae to billiard table cloth,
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