ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF
GAMESTERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | ||
AN ENTERPRISING CLERK.
Lord Kenyon, in 1795, tried a clerk `for misapplying his master's confidence,' and the facts were as follows. He went with a bank note of £1000 to a gaming house in Osendon Street, where he won a little. He also won two hundred guineas
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ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF
GAMESTERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | ||