THE BACCARAT SCANDAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3830, 11 June 1891, Page 2

THE BACCARAT SCANDAL.

Reply of SJr Edward Clarke. Reflection* on the Prince of Wales.

Yerdlot for the Defendant.

(Per Press, Association.)

London, June 9,

In the (source of his reply in the baccarat case to-day, Sir Edward Clarke, Solicitor-General, declared that after the evidence which had been taken it was impossible to remove Sir William Gordon uummhig's name from the Army List without aJee erasing the names of H.R.H. the Prince df Wales and General Owen Williams.' This state • ment .created an immense sensation in Count.' she' counsel contended th#t Sir Stanley Wilson was [originally in "the conAlioa b& put apon sje pUuntoffs sought to entrap his gueaw ■ accusation of adding counters was explained by the system of play punned by Sir William, but the «harge of withdrawing counters, which was 120* eimilarly explainable, had been abandoned. Sir Edward Clarke said it was impossible to understand the conduct of the Prince of Wales, Lord Coventry, and : Mr Stanley Wilson, assuming that ■ they believed their comrade guilty of i

made against him, and his (counsel*£) own belief was that much of the evidence which coull have been given in plaintiff's favour bad evidently been sacrificed in the desire to save the Prince .of Wales trpm exposure. The latter remark elicited loud applause from the body of the Court. The Prince of Wales has nominated Mr Stanley Wilson, who gave evidence in the baccarat case, as a member of the Marlborough Club.

Later. In the baccarat case a verdict was returned for defendants.

Public sympathy in the baccarat case is on the side of Sir W Gumming,