A GOOD HAUE.
The advices from London- statethat on Sunday moi-ungjast a bodyof 50 police made a raid on a fashionable baccarat club, in Park-place, , : . and took the inmates by surprise,. Fifteen were arrested, inciudingv Lords Dudley, Liirgan. and JPaplet^ . and Messss Merry and Benzon {the Jubilee Plunger). Eighteen thousand pounds in hard cash were also seized. An attempt will be made to ptore that Lords Dudley and Liirgan were " only occasional, visitors. It is asserted that Lord Dudley lost £5000, and Lord Lurgan £2000. The club in which the baccarat was played has proved- the ruin of "many young men of fashion, and young Benzon the plunger was ruined there. Seaton, the proprietor of this gaxnb- < ling saloon, is a well known and noted gamester, and the same may be said of Davis, an equally well known money-lender, who supplied ready money to young men on post obits. The raid by the police vu made on the application of Lord - Bateman, owing to the heavy losses of his son, Captain Wm. Spencer Bateman Hanbury.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 268, 21 May 1889, Page 2
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175A GOOD HAUE. Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 268, 21 May 1889, Page 2
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