Gambling Debt Replay

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 12 (Supplement)

Gambling Debt Replay

Thirty - year - old Henry Talbot de Vere Clifton, one of Britain's richest landowners, was under police guard in America < recently following his complaint < ' that he was tricked out of £30,000 in 1 5 minutes while nlaying poker 1 ] in a Hollywood hotel. | , He has received many threatening j telephone messages since he took i counsel's opinion about the game; all I j ;-alis to him were first answered by a!] detccti ve. The district attorney, Mr. Buron Fitts, spent hours questioning Mr. Clifton ; and one of the men he allegedly played 1 with. Lew Brice, broAv jßaany I Brice, the actresa. 1

Much depends on whether the game was stud or draw poker. Stud poker (in which some of tlie cards are dealt fare upwards) is illegal in California; draw poker (in which the cards are dealt face downwards) is not. The other players. Tommy Ouinan. brother of the late "night chib queen"; Oorge Lewis and Jack Reynolds have not yet been seen by Mr. Fitts. The district attorney wants to know whether Brlce held tJhfee sevens or a full house (two like Cards and three like cards). Brice claims he had a full house. The game is to he replayed in Mr. Fitts' office. Five chairs will be arranged round his table in the positions Mr. Clifton says they occupied at the hotel, and pieces of paper will be used instead of money.