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With many other most excellent observations on the tendency of
this selfish and avaricious vice, he concluded by sentencing
Miller to a fine of L500, one year's imprisonment, and security
for his good behaviour for seven years, himself in L500 and two
others in L250 each, adding:--'It appeared that you played with
loaded dice. The Court has not taken that into consideration,
because it was not charged in the indictment.'
ATTACKS ON GAMING HOUSES.
In 1797 the Bedford Arms, Covent Garden, kept by one John
Twycross, was attacked, under warrant. The gaming-room stood an
hour's siege, for the doors were so plated with iron that the
repeated blows of a sledge-hammer made no impression on them.
The officers at length entered the back through the window. They
found fifteen persons at table, but not actually playing, so no
conviction could take place.
In the same year a party of Bow Street officers searched a gaming
house at 19, Great Suffolk Street. They were an hour in
effecting their entrance. Two very stout doors, strongly bolted
and barred, obstructed them. All the gamesters but one escaped
by a subterraneous passage, through a long range of cellars,
terminating at a house in Whitcomb Street, whence their leader,
having the keys of every door, conducted them safely into the
open air.
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