The New York herald., 1875-09-17

mare is the better horse and the guidwife looks well
after the ''siller" The usual results ensued-or
rather, what called the usual results for have
little faith in them-that is had it that thefts
from employers took place to satfy the craving for
betting
But what did more 70 bring about crisis than any
thing else was the rage into which the merry Mossoo
was put when he found that the betting menthe book
makers-pocketed his money over horses put up in the
lists, but that had been "scratched'-that is with
drawn from the race-days before he made his bet
And not only pocketed the merry Mossoos money but
laughed at him besides. Then it alleged that the
bookmakers themselves owned horses, laid the odds
against them and scratched them as a sufficient
sum of public money had been got But more OF this
iurther on. human endurance, even french human
endurance has It's limits So one cold saturday nght
a couple OF months ago the French police came down,
as Is recorded of the Assyran, Like wolf on the iod
Of the bookmakers, and
MADE CLEAN SWEEP
OF all their books, papers and money Experts were
engaged to examine all the seized documents and
ultimately the bookmakers were summoned to appear
on the double charge Of keeping gaming houses and
with escroquere which is the French for swndling.
Strange to relate not one London newspaper has
correct account Of the trial Of those In fact the
reports that have appeared have been crowded with
inaccuracies Twenty -four men summoned; only
thirteen appeared in court; the remainder had either
abscOnded or remained at homo. There Jack
Valentine (called "Jack' because his is George)
Billy Wright, Girls Robinson, Sam Houghton Jem
Adkins Tubby Morris, Big Bet Saaery and who is
well known to Americans who frequent the COsmopol-
TAM at No. Rue Scribe, Silver Hair Burch socaled
because his hair ever since he sixteen years OF age
has been white The others Frenchmen
and men OF inferior degree the turf BY advice of
his lawyer leading solicitor in Paris Jack Valentine
did not appear in court because il had been pretty we'll
known many days before the trial took place that vaen
tine and Burch were to be imprisoned well fined,
it having been alleged that they owned horses that
run or not rum just to suit the pockets Of the alleged
owners. But Burch, by private ln1uence-by means OF
what the French call the eScder de serucgo of with
line, notwithstanding that he Valentines partner
and Valentine alone, of all the lot sentenced 10
| 3OOO francs fine and one years imprisonment-sen-
fenced in his absence by order of his lawyer who hav
ing to appear in case st Lille on the day, could
not attend the court in Paris.
But am in position to state-n fact have 1t from
haennes own Psmthat certain horses said to have
| property-that, in fact they belong to
THE DUKE OF HAMILTON
The Duke, after chequered career the English
and French turf, got married some time ago Just
before his marriage the Duke who meant leave the
turf for time at least tho of his horses to
impecunious pal Jimmy Shaw, ex-Captan in the
Enghsh army, and erst gentleman jockey. For
certain reasons Shaw could not the horses in his
own name and Valentine, in the goodness of his heart
allowed his name TO be used as nominator Acting as
have already said, on the advice of his lawyer and
having faith in his innocence being proved when his
case came on appeal before higher tribunal in Paris
| he never left the city. But last night
VALENTINE WAS ARRESTED
by the police and taken to the prison of Mazas where
long before his year expires the discipline will kill
| him. Thus the best man of the twenty -four sum
monedfor he is thoroughly honest and far from rich
!
others the 4,Ooof in which they have been
mucted is merely feabite. Besides, valen-
tine has been sent to prison for offence that if
thus punished in England, would lock up half the
members of the Victoria Club-aye, and some
celebrated members of the great Jockey Club itself
Moreover, it would be all the more calling TO Valen-
tine not TO say word of the public feeling be
that the horses he is said have workedn and
for owning which he has been convicted of escroqerie
are the property of peer of England, Scotland and
France
Hitherto it had been believed that the Code Napoleon
made betting legal in France The present decision,
however would to say otherwise In the cases OF
all the accused. excepting Valentine, the charge OF
eScroqterie was departed from; yet all fined.
certain feeling of legality given TO the operations
of the betting men in Paris from the fact that every
voucher sent out for every bet had to be stamped and
from these stamps the French government derived a
| considerable revenue.
But tell what incongruties will crop up
/ in France. Before left Paris met
| BoYToN,
who informed me that he had been requested by
Marshal MacMahon and the Duchess of Magenta ex-
| hibt his esaving apparatus in Paris This request
lake the Bos dc Boulogne should be enclosed he
should give the money drawn for the benefit of the su
ferers by the recent nundations This the Preiect
the Seine would not comply WITH he alleged he could
not legally enclose lake that belonged TO the public
Then Captain Boyton offered TO exhibit publicly tn,
Seine; but this also refused, the Minister stating
that in the large crowd likely TO be attracted ther
would be danger to life. Thus Boytons journey q
Paris fruitless. But he is going elsewhere II
| had just got telegram from Berlin, where they wer
| erecting 40 900 seats 10 witness his performance