THE GAMBLING RAID. C A USE OF THE ARREST S.
London, May 13. In connection with the laid made on a fashionable bacca at cub in Park Plate, mi at tern; t will be made to prove that. Lord.-- Dudley and Lurgan weie only occasional visitor*. It is asserted thaiLoid Dudley lost, ,£5,000 dnd Lord Lurgan ,£2,000. The club in which liaccaiat is playe I lus proved the ruin ot many young men of fashion, and young Benzon, the plunger, was ruined there. Seaton, theproprietorof fchisgammg saloon, is well known and a noted gamestet, and the same m iy be sad of Davis, an equally well-known moneylender, who supplied ready money to young men on post obits. The raid by the police was nude on the application of Lord Bdteinan, owing to heavy losses of his son, the Hon. Captain Wi iiam Spencer Batenian Han bury.
London, May 15. It has transpired that the; Countess Dudley, known. g that htr sou had been rleeced in a gambling hell, in the (Jiu •, and failing to induce the police to act, applied to Vl r Matthews, the Home Secretary, to have the Club dosed. The result was that the police were compelled to take action. Tniee members of the Carlton Club were among the arrests.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 369, 18 May 1889, Page 5
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