RAID ON GAMBLERS.
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(Per Press Association.)
(Received 12.30 p.m., May 14th.) London, May 13.
On Sunday morning a body of fifty police made a raid upon a fashionable baccarat club in Park Place and took the inmates by surprise. Fifty were arrested, including Lords Dudley, Lurgaa and Paulet, Messrs Merry and Benzon (the Jubilee plunger.) Eighteen thousand pounds in hard cash was also seized. The same morning another raid was made on the Adel phi Club and forty-seven gamblers arrested.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5006, 14 May 1889, Page 3
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88RAID ON GAMBLERS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 5006, 14 May 1889, Page 3
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