The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-12
SEWER LOST
HIS LIBEL SUIT
Career of the English Plunger
Brought TO Light.
ONCE PRESENTED At COURT
NOW CANNOT COLLECT on his
CHARACTER.

& ONION. Nay IA sensational
libel suit brought by She eeG
known race horse owner, r.. S.
Sievier. against Sir James Duke. also
well known ON the turf. was goueiuI=I
today with a verdict for Sir James.
Sievier charged the laUer with caHuE
him d thief. card charper and murderer
and that 5ievier caused mis- famous
mare Sceptre 20 be pulled iu the Derby
Sir James pleaded privilege as Che
statements were MADE within .ra
Raleigu club. but he endeavOred 10 show
that SieEier's character was such IEH-
he could not be liDeled-. The jury Coz
day decided that Sir James had u0-
committed any libel and mu.rJz.
Sieyier I'm the costs OF the SUIT. sieEier-
who was remarkably cooi Throughout
the case, broke down towards the end
OF his cOunsei's speech ana sobbed bi.-
terIy.
Justice Grautham fin summing ru
was very severe ia his structures ODD
SievIer. He said the late Queen Vic
t0ria would almost rather have e.T.H
up her throne than have such man
presented to her.
Past Life Probed.
The case attracted continued Htar-
est owing 10 the fact that SieTier. g past
life was prObed with a miuutenes5
scarcely ever equaIIed iu a similar ease.
He confessed so having been three
times baniTupted and 10 being several
times i'm police courts, but for tr-lnz
assaults at card games and billiard
matches. Bets running into thousands
of pounds were reC1unLed from the wit
ness stand with a. fTauEues5 and ll
numbers that somewhat amazed The
hearers. in the long run. SleVIer de-
he rHH
bling transactions One game in par
ticulaT, when the Duke of Braganz1
lost about $4,000 while playing with
SieEier at Monte Carlo caused mu-l
CTOss-eXamlultiOu. The Defendants
counsel declared that q famous AmerT-
can card sharper named Burns, brother
of a man imprisoned for r1D1iug 5- p.
Norgau's house, participated In tho
game, but SievieT declared he was not
aware of his identity until after tHa
game was over, when the Duke of
BTagauZa himself and Guy ChGLWEul
came TO am arrangement satisfactory
10 all Chetwynd IS a son of Sir Gelr-.
Chetwynd and married R0saliHa
Sec0r.
Won $4,000 From a Friend,
On another occasion sievier wen $780,
600 from a friend at cards and the
losers wife wrote him a pathetic let
pretty large sum for cara sharper
To let anybody off, remarked 1leEi--
on the stand.
After his return from Australia
Sieyier was presented at court IL Queen
Victoria, but some months after#arH
the court circular announced that tn-
pres EgaLiOu was cancelled. This
Sievier attributed entirely 10 the fact
that he had been d b0okmakeE bon
Australia.
Through all the phases Of his eheeS-
cred career. from the time ne 'sma0E-l
Lord Deerhuust's face" iu a Melbourne
racing club the same Dgsrhursr who
married Miss Honynge of San Fraucisaa
and who was then aide-de-camp 90 che
governor TO the present day SieEleTs
life was meTciIessly dissecre1- But sir
James, Dukes counsel. did not put for
ward any evidence tending To show
that Sievier was guilty of card sharp
ing, pulling SCeptre or other horses.
thieviug or murder.
Sievier married Lady Mabel Bruce,
sister of the fourth marquis Of Allies
bury. She had arranged 20 marry an
other man. but two days prior to rI=
wedding she ran Off with Sievier.
Daring Player.
Bob" Sievier the former owner Of
Sceptre, is. CIassed as the most daring
speculator ever seen on the English
turf.
w. K. Vanderbilt I'm May, 1892. was
reported to have offered Siavier s--1--
600 for SceprTe, winner Of the Z.lI1
guineas stake and Of the 1000 guiueas
stakes that year.
Sievier is well known and well e1u-
Gated. and has been fin turn "A book
maker, an actor and manager of a bet
ting agency. He has been stranded
financially, but is now a wealthy owner
and p0ssessor of the best horses ON the
turf. all acquired with the results NJ
sensational plUugiug. I'm his yolnEer
days SieVier was a celebrity ON che
turf at Melbourne, where me was
bOOkmakeT. He became involved lu "a
difference with Lord DeeThursL- Ha
has Travelled i'm most Of the British
colonies and Is wei known as dead
SHOT both I'm elephant ana lion hunt