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Show SEEKS TO JUSTIFY E1GLISJJML1G Young Man Tells Court of Making- $60,000 Within Three Months. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Sept. 23. In the bankruptcy bank-ruptcy court here Roy Mackay, a young man of picturesque career, told of making mak-ing about $(10,000 in three months in a fashionable gambling house in the Bel-gravia Bel-gravia district of London just before the war. Mackay joined the army in the first month of the war, went to the front a few days later and was captured by the Germans after the retreat from Moris. He and a famous British peer's son1 were placed in a German trench, the Germans being too busily occupied with the fighting to bother much about1 him. ! At a favorable opportunity the two) made a dash from the trench. Mackay; got away, but his companion fell dead 1 with a bullet in his head. The gam- bier managed to exchange his khaki , clothes for the attire of a French peasant peas-ant and eventually reached Knglaml. As a result of his privations he was ; invalided out of the army on a small i pension. i Mackay objected strongly in court to j being called a professional gambler. ' ' Running a gambling house doesn 't ' constitute you a professional gambler." gam-bler." he asserted. 'l don't think in those da-s in London it. was a very singular venture. It wa a very common com-mon Tiling among the highest ami best people in London. Everybody u as . above reproach who was i hero and I was not 1 lie only one by many dozens that were doing the same thing. It js perfectly jut if ied, just., the same a a bookmaker's or any nti:er business. "I found a considerable number nf ;nv customer's by my sni-ial connection. As "non as thov knew 1 wa starting a house thev didn't want finding they i .iust came,'1 ' j |