THE BACCARAT SCANDAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3827, 5 June 1891, Page 2

THE BACCARAT SCANDAL.

CROSS -EXAMINATION OF PLAINTIFF.

GENERAL OWEN WILLIAMS'

EVIDENCE,

(Upitpd Press Association.)

London, 2nd June

Sir Charles Russell's cross-examina-tion of Sir William Cumming is regarded as damaging to plaintiff's case. The evidence to*day elicited but few new facts. The plaintiff under cross examination resorted to absolute innocence as regards play, and explained that bis winning from the Prince of Wales and others was owing to the system of his play.

General Ow,en Williams was examined, and admitted that he did not see auy cheating on the part of the plaintiff; still he and others signed the confession in order to secure the required silence. The witness declared that the Prince of Wales told Sir W. Gordon Cumuiing that to play with his hands on the table did not*look well. He said Mr Lysett Green, son-in-law of Mr Arthur Wilson, at whose residence the offence is alleged to have been committed, was the first to accuse the plaintiff cf cheating, and that Mr Berkeley Levett also witnessed it. The case for the plaintiff is closed.