CHARGES AGAINST A COURT.
« ALLEGED CARD-SHARPING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, October 11. Count Gisbert Wolff-Metternich, who was arrested in December last on a charge of complicity with a gang 'of international card-sharpers, is now being tried. A number of "scenes" occurred during the trial, and tho prisoner was sentenced to forty-eight hours on bread and water for accusing his judges of partiality. Medical evidence was given to the effect that the prisoner was mentally stunted, and according to the testimony his erratic life was mainly duo to squalid family wrangles. The Count comes of a family well known in European diplomacy. He was arrested in Vienna on December 15, upon a charge of confederacy with international cardsharpers, who wero alleged ■fraudulently to have ' "won" several hundred pounds from a German officer named Backhaus by unfair play in a London hotel some months previously. In April last tho Count was sent to "a hospital for six weeks, in order that his mental 6tate might bo kept under observation.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1257, 12 October 1911, Page 5
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