THE CARD SCANDAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2947, 4 June 1891, Page 2

THE CARD SCANDAL.

THE PKINCE OF WALES ]]]•]- I'OKK THK COURT. (BY ELECTHIC THLEIItAI'U.— COPYUiniir). Loxiiox, Juno I. Tiie trial of Iho baccarat case began this morning. Tho Court was crowded with members of tho aristocratic classes. among whom was the Frinco of Wales. Sir W. Gordou-Cnmmiitg, the plaintifF, was examined. He denied the allegation that be was cheating, but admitted having signed a document undertaking not to touch a card for the rest of bis life, which, he explained, was done in order to prevent a scandal.

ill cross-examination, Sir Gordon Cmnming admitted having won i'L'L'.j from the Prince of Wales. lie had never sought to confront his accusers, because his friends had failed to suggest that that was advisable. The second night (!)th September) they were playing, tho Prince of Wales, he remembered, expressed a wish that the players would exhibit their stakes olvarly. AVitness now believed that the advice given him to sign the declaration of guilt was extremely bad. The Prince of Wales and two of his friends, Lord Coventry and General Owen Williams, had written to him jointly that in tho face of the overwhelming evidence it was useless for him to deny his guilt. The plaintiff proposes to call tho Prince of Wales as a witness. J tine H.R.11. the Prince of Wales was examined in the Baccarat Case to-day. He admitted that he did not see any irregularity in Sir W. Gordon-Cum-ming's play, and it was Lord Coventry who first suggested that the plaintiff was not playing fairly. There were so many of those present who said they had witnessed the unfair play he could not help believing the accusation.