GAMBLING IN LONDON.
ACTIVITY OF THE POLICE. London, May 14. Organised and successful raids have been made by the police on some of the fashionable gambling places. Early on Sunday morning the patrons of a baccarat club in Park Place were taken by surprise, and among those arrested were Lords Dudley, Lurgan, and Panlet, and Benzon the notorious plunger. It is said that £18.009 in cash was seized. At the Adelphi Club about 50 gamblers were arrested, and a sum of money seized. The arrests have caused quite a sensation in London
The raid by the Police was made on the application of Lord Bateman, owing to the heavy losses of his son. It is asserted that Lord Dudley lost £5,000 and Lord Lurgan £2,000.
Mr Matthews was lately questioned concerning Mr Justice Manisty’s remarks that he could not see why, when petty betting houses were put down by force, Tattersall’s should be spared, when the bets made there were no more valid or legal than if made in any public-house. Mr Matthews said that the question had never been raised, and it appears to admit of some doubt. This (a London paper adds) is just like Mr Matthews. We should have thought that the merest tyro who has ever looked into the question of gambling at all must know that there is no doubt whatever as to the legality of Tattersail’s. The petty betting houses that are put down by force are not put down because bets are made there which are invalid and illegal, but because they violate the provisions of the Betting Act. AU that goes on at Tattersall’s is that certain persons undertake to pay certain other persons certain sums of money in case certain events happen or do not happen. There is no public gaming in any sense of the word, any more than there is at the Stock Exchauge, and if the law were to be amended so as to shut up Tattersall’s it would be advisable at the same time so to frame the clauses of the new Act as to bring under the lash of the law a great deal of the business which now goes on in the City,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 299, 16 May 1889, Page 2
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368GAMBLING IN LONDON. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 299, 16 May 1889, Page 2
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