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33
Indirect
Corpus delicti
Instructions
4. Cheating at play
Cheating at
Defraudment Swindling: or taking up ge
Rashly running in debt, and swindling.
Cheating at play.
Instructions teaching the people how to detect the
acts of those who cheat at play: instructions touching
of loaded dice; of the methods of cosying dice; of fashion
dealing the cards unfairly, making signs to partners,
and the like: of the arts used by sharpers to
draw persons in to play for money and stake
deep &, &. The instructions belonging to this
head may also be distinguished into general and
particular. The Such as general should be required
to be hung up in all gaming-houses without
distinction: such as particular, in the particular
gaming-houses to which they severally relate: those
which concern cards for instance in assembly-rooms:
those which concern billiards in billiard
rooms, and so on. The ordinary stock of tricks
might be obtained from jugglers, and rewards new contriv
rewards offer'd for those who will discovering betraying or detecting
new artifices contrivances as they come out.
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