The Baccarat Scandal.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 13 June 1891, Page 2

The Baccarat Scandal.

In the haccarat case, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge summed up generally against Sir William Gordon Cumming. He held that if a man were innocent he was not likely to sign a confession of guilt, as Sir William had done. The Chief Justice deprecated the statement of Sir Edward Clarke, Solicitor-General, that the plaintiff's name could not he removed from the Army List unless the names of the Prince of Wales and General Owen Williams were also erased. The jury were only absent seven minutes, and when the foreman announced that they found a verdict for the defendants there was considerable hissing in the body of the Court. .„.,.,, Public sympathy in thei baccaraf case is on the side of Sir W. Cumming. H.E.H. Prince of Wales has nottii-; nated Mr Stanley Wilson, who gave evidence in the baccarat case, aa ;! ai. member of the Marlborough Club.; ; Sir W. Gordon Cumming, plaintiif ' in the baccarat case, was married on the 10th to Miss Garner, a New York lady possessing a fortune of £20,000 a year. At the end of the trial he offered to break the engagement.

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