He finds himself “snookered”

Northern Whig, Friday 26 January 1912

He did not abandon the Ulster Hall until it war made quite clear to him that the Ulster Hall had abandoned him. Danger of trouble and disorder in the city weighed with him as nothing. And it in too late for him, now that he finds himself “snookered,” to claim that his formal cessation of something he could not get was made in the interests of peace. It was simply in the interests of necessity.