The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-10

nenrs in this matter AT their club.
"Brookes" for nearly half a century 1.-THE
play was more of gambling game than az
Whites. 1t was here that Charles James
Fox, Selwyn, Lord Carlisle, Lord Robert
Spencer Gen. Fitzpatrick ard other great
Wings, won, and lost, hundreds of thou
sands, frequently remaining at the table
for many hours without rising. on one oc-
easion, Lord Robert Spencer contrived TO
lose the last shilling of his considerable
fotune, given to him by his brother,
The Duke of Marlborough; Gen. Fitzpat-
rick being much in the same condition,
they agreed to raise a sum of money, in
order that they might keep faro bank.
The members of the club made no objec-
ton, ana ere long they carried out their
design. As is generally the case the bank
was winner, and Lord Robert bagged
as his share of the profit 100000 He re-
tired. strange 10 say, from the fetid at
mosphere of play with the money in his
pocket and never again gambled. George
Harley Drummond of the famous banking
house, Charing cross, only played once in
his whole life, at Whites Club, at whist,
on which occasion he lost 10000 to Brum-
mel. This event caused him to retire from
the banking house of which he was
partner"
But gambling was not confined to the
great nor was the stake always money.
The following true story Is from the An
nual Register:
april, Is, 1812.-On Wednesday evening
an extraordinary investigation took pace
at Bow street. Croker, the officer, was
passing along Hampstead road, when he
observed, at a short distance before him,
two men on a wall, and, directly after,
saw the tallest of them, a stout man.
about six feet high, hanging by his neck
from lamppost attached to the wall, be
ing that instant tied up and turned off
by the short man. This unexpected and
extraordinary sight astonished the officer;
he made up to the spot with all speed;
and, just after he arrived there, the tall
man who had been hanged fell to the
ground the handkerchief given way. Cro-
ker produced his staff, said he was an Off
GER and demanded to know of the other
man the cause of such conduct. In the
meantime the man who had been hanged
recovered, got up, and on Cookers inter-
fering, gave him a violent blow on the
nose, which nearly knocked him back
wards. The short man was endeavorins
to make off; however, the officer procured
assistance, and both were brought to the
office, when the account they gave was
that they worked on canals They had
been together on Wednesday afternoon
tossed up for money and afterwards for
their clothes; the tall man, who was hang
ed, won the others jacket, trousers and
shoes; they then tossed up which should
hang the other, and the short one won the
toss They got upon the wall, the one
to submit and the other to hang him on
the lamp iron. They both agreed In this
statement. The tail one, who had been
hanged, said, IL he had won the toss, he
would have hanged the other. He said
he then felt the effects of his hanging in
his neck and his ewes were so much swell
ed that he saw double. The magistrates
| expressed their horror and disgust, and or
dered the man who had been hanged to
find bail for the vio.ent and unjustifiable
assault on the officer and the short one
Tor hanging the other. Not having bail
they were committed to Bridewell for
| trial"