The Sentinel=record., 1910-02-22
cONSTABLE'S ATTACHMENT IN DEPOT STARTS SENSATION
 FOR VISITING GOSSlPs.
Difference in the Value of Roulette Chips at the Southern Club Is Origin of a Fight Taken to
 the Courts.
the Courts

Count De Beaufort, London, and his bride, the former Miss Irma Kel sallen, of Chicago, he'd an unusual experience as a grand finale to their honeymoon when a Hot Springs con. sable interrupted their intended de. parture for home by taking the five trunks containing the trousseau and the biz dog crate which did not con. tain the Counts bull dog, and holding them over Sunday and part of Mon. day, much O the annoyance of the visitors about to depart for their Chicago home
 The trouble all arose over the price of roulette chips The Count had played and lost That was- all right. But when settlement day came the Count insisted that he owed the Southern Club but $50. and onereI that in payment The club insisted that 1 held "tab" against him for full $500. and wanted the memoran- dun" paid
 Bert Werthern former auachee of the Southern club, but who, it is stat cd, did not represent the club in the attachment was the complainant who swore out the attachment He stated it was a debt, and shovel a $500 due bin signed by he Count as proof of the obligation
 The Count was very much chagrined over having his luggage and that of hls wife attached. and their return home Interrupted, and after explaining the circumstances over which the dis pure arose, took a firm stand to see it out 10 the end, and get full revenge for wh3t he considered bally poor treatment
 He went so far as 10 indicate that the British ambassador at Washing ton would be consulted over the mat ter and that the highest courts in this land would soon be resorted to in the matter of securing redress for the wrongs he claimed to have suffered.
 At the outset it appeared that the Count had merely overplayed his hand and was trying to get away without settlement The Counts story, how ever, m kes it plausible that there was a misunderstanding of the whole matter-although the club differs ab. solutely from De Beaufort in this re- Spect and insists that the Count must have known the true situation when he played
 According to the story the Count tells he and his wife went over 10 the Southern Club several evenings and played roulette "I am not gambler" said the Count, and merely intended to while away a few hours and the flow dollers that expected small play might cost"
 The Count ordered chips, and they were served He played them fiber. ally. won and lost, and when they were gone bought more Sometimes, according to his story, he had many stacks, in iron of him, d o.te "e says be played thirty or forty chips on single number He regarded them as ten cents chips, which would make his gambling operations very mini mum and very safe
 The Count says that after the play he was presented with slip or mem orandum which he signed.
 Under he custom of American gen. tlemen gamblers payment is seldom exacted until the next morning after play, and when a tab for $500 was sent to the Count the next day ho says he laughed at Inc joke He tried to get the club attendant to laugh with him. but no smile came back
 The Count stated that he had an'i- clip ted that he had played and lost but $50. and believed he vas being taken for q dub foreigner which ao resented by declaring be wouli not Settle
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