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JUDGE'S LOSS AT CARDS, i
TEST IN COURT.
The trial -f :Count ^Gfebert Wolff
Metternich . and a Roumanian, Buics,
on a charge of swindling' at cards, ?
took place ? at Berlin,- as- recently re
ported -in. our— cables. * Aj German
named Stalhnann, alias Baron Korff
koenig; a .German ex-officer named
.Niemala, - and ' an -Englishman (passing
as an officer in. the Army, are also
mentioned in connection with the
affair. ., .^ ,.
Buics, examined' with regard ; -to '. a
card .game at a Berlin hotel in which ?
he, Stallmann, and Niemala, are al
leged to- have won £4,000 Irom. a
wealthy young Hussar, officery denied
that he had -cheated. The game, was
: rouge-et-noir, . not a game of - hazard,
ht'-said, but of calculation. He con
tended that a skilled player with ' a
good memory would always know
pretty correctly what cards were left
and. -which way the colors were likely
to run. ? He offered to demonstrate
this, and v the president accepted. Buics
left ? the dock . and -played a '? game of
rouge-et-noir ? with ;him, the president
acting as .banker, with the counsel arid
Journalists crowding .round the Judicial
table. To the. amusement both of the
the participants and the public the
game ended' in a complete victory for
Buics, who, had the contest been
genuine, would have won £70 from '
the president.
i
,- 'Oh — er — pardon me,. Miss Maudle,
but at what age do you ttilnk women
should marry? You know the 'news-
papers are discussing the question.'
'At about my age, I think,' Mr. Timid,'
she replied sweetly.
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