RAIDS ON, GAMBLING CLUBS.
("Per 'Press Association.)
. , London, May 13. On Sunday morning a body of SOjpolice made a raid upon a fashionable baccarat club in Park place, and took the inmates by surprise. ,- Fifteen, were' arrested, including Lords Dudley,' Lurgan,, andi Paulet,* Messrs Merry and Benzon (the "Jubilee Plunger"). in 1 hard cash was' also, seized. The ' game morning, another raid was made on the 'Adelphi Club, and 47 gamblers were arrested. In connection with 1 the raid made 1 on a fashionable baccarat dub in Park place, an attempt will be made to prove that jLprds Dudley and Lurgan were only occasional visitors, It is asserted that Lord Dudley lost £§00,0 and Lord Lurgan £2000. club in ' which bapcarat is played has proved the ruin of many" young men of fashion, and young Benzon, " The Plunger," was ruined there. •Seaton, proprietor of the gaming saloon, is a well-knWn and noted gamester; and the sarnejmaybe said of Davis,' an equally well•known money lender, who supplied 'ready money to young men- on post obits< The raid by the police was made on the application of Lbrd Bateman, owing to the iheavy losses of his' son, Hon. Captain William Spencer Bateman; Hanbury.
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Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 10
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