The Baccarat Scandal

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 151, 13 June 1891, Page 2

The Baccarat Scandal

+ JPER UNITBD TRESS ASSOCIATION.! London, June 10. Lord Chief Justice , Coleridge, in summing up in the baccarat case, said there was only one law for peasant and prince alike. He .did not blame defendants for, requesting Sir "VYm., Camming to sign a , confession in order to shield the Prince of Wales, from the scandal which they knew must' arise iffthe facts were "ever placed before a hard -judging' world, which was not subservient to Royality, as in the day of the Tndors' and Stuarts. ' • The Chronicle condemns the verdict, and suggests .the readiness displayed by the Prince of Wales to be the prize guest of rich, vulgar families, and gratify their tftste for the lowest type of gambling, has shocked and disgusted the people. The Welsh Baptist . Conference, now sitting at Bangor, has passed a resolution deploring the gambling habita of the Prince of Wales. Sir W> Gordon-dimming, plaintiff in the baccarat case, was married to-day to Miss Garner, a New' York lady, possessing a fortune of a year. At ths end of the trial he offered to break off the •hgagement. The whole of. the press .comments on the 'baccarat case have apparently fallen on the Prince of Wales. 1 ■ The Provincial press and the London evening papers, like their morning ooni mporaries, severely censure the Prince for his conduct, and many of the papers warn His Royal Highness that he is only imperilling the monarchy by pursuing his fast career. The Tories fear that th« disclosures made will seriously aftecfc their chance of success at the forthcoming general election; ' Quite a number. of dissenting bodies have denounced the . Prince of Wales because of his gambling habits. June 11* The Prince of Wales' connection with the bafccarat scandel is severely criticised in foreign military circles. Sir W. Cumming's bride procured a special license, and insisted on the wedding ceremony being performed iniinedi- ' ately after the trial. , Truth says the Queen has expressed her dispJeasrtre at the events which oeeiU'fed at Traoby Croft, and is 'angry with every-' one who figured in the case. '^ A question has been tabled in the House of Commons, calling attention to the'scandal attaching to a Field Marshal (the Prince of Wales) and a General (Owen Williams) in the English Army. The European press unanimonsly condemn the Prince of Wales for gamblingwith youngsters and subalterns.