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‘Ancient Dice Were Loaded,

Director Of Museum Reports

By EDDY GILMORE

LONDON (AP)—The Romans, who brought Christianity to England, also seem to have brought along several pairs of crooked dice.

“The evidence is inescapable, I'm afraid,”’ said Director Nor- man Cook of the City. of Lon- don's Guildhall Museum. “Here, see for Yourself.”

He held forth several pairs of dice .dredged up from the Ruman ruins on which the City of

ways of doctoring a pair of dice. You ream out a section of the dice, insert a small slug of something heavy, like lead, then’ replace the section. Thus, the lighter side, when the dice are rolled, should come ‘up. more often than the heavier side.

“Now, examine this pair,” said cook.

The second pair, though smaller than the plugged pair, wére crooked too. The sides with the six and the one were

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€gyptian tombs or date back

before 2,000 BC.

Most dice were made in those days from the knucklebones of sheep or goats. Hence the ex- ‘pression, “throwing the bones.”

Th Danes took up dice shoot- ing in a’ big way when they | came to England in. the ninth century.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn, (AP)— _ Arthur J. Davis, convicted of slaying six persons in a shoot ing spree, was sentenced Thurs- day to death in the electrie chair Jan. 18, 1967. The en- tence was handed down by three judges who convicted Da- vis less than 24 hours earlier on six counts of first-degree

London stands. The biggest | longer than the other sides.

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