ARREST OF GAMBLERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1892, 16 May 1889, Page 1

ARREST OF GAMBLERS.

London, May 13. On Sunday morning a body of fifty police made a raid upon a fashionable baccarat club in Park Palace and took the inmates by surprise. Fifty were arrested, including Lords (Dudley, Lurgsn, and P&ulet, 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 Adelpbi Club and forty-seven gamblers arrested. Later, Tbe gamblers arrested in Park Place were bailed out, but those captured at the Adelphi Club were not. In connection with the raid made on a fashionable baccarat club in Park Place, an attempt will be made to prove that Lords Dudley and Lurgan were only occasional visitors. It is asserted that Lord Dudley lost £SOOO and Lord Lurgan £2OOO. The club in which baccarat is played has proved the ruin of many young men of fashion, and young Benzon, the plunger, was ruined there. Seaton, the proprietor of this gaming saloon, is well known and is a noted gamester, and the same may be said of Davies, an equally well known money lender, who supplied ready money to young men on post obits. The raid by the police was made on tbe application of Lord Bateman, owing to the heavy losses of his son, the Hon. Captain William Spencer Bateman Hanbury,