NIGHT CLUB SCANDAL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18901, 17 January 1927, Page 11

NIGHT CLUB SCANDAL.

SEQUEL TO RAID

FASHIONABLE DEFENDANTS IN COURT.

(BY (AUSTBAIIAH AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION,)

(Received January 16th, 5.5 p.m.)

LONDON, .January 15.

Limousine after limousine drove up to the Marlborough street Police Court, dropping altogether 100 fashionable persons to answer summonses for breaking the licensing laws. This is a sequel to the raid on the famous Rifc'afc Club, in which Princes, 'peers, Cabinet Ministers, and members of Parliament are numbered among the five thousand members. The Court was crowded with fashionable pefsdns in expensive dresses and furs, young men about town, and elderly men of military bearing, constituting a most remarkable collection of defendants,

■■ Twelve pleaded guilty and were lined £io each. The remainder of the oases were adjourned, including Ohe against the management to Bhow cause why the- club should not be struck Off the list. The prosecution's revelations of night life unfolded a sOrry . picture. Since the opening in March of- last Jtear liquor sales totalled £47,467, of whieh . £25,000 represented profit. There was no suggestion of disorder Or drunkenness, but it is remarkable that stifth a lavish establishment could be conducted on such grossly irregular lines. Five constables were admitted without question it midnight and served with a bottle of ohampagne at a cost of 30s. With it were five sandwiohes Which had not been ordered but for which £1 was charged. 'Two further chainpagues w6fG served in a gl&sa Jug, the bill totalling £5 lSs; Everybody was drinking, having ordered liquor before midnight, and were putting the bottles under the tables. An analysis of the nomination foruiß revealed that 5000 members had no' proposer or seconder and 1500 no seconder.