The Baccarat Scandal.
The Prince of Wales in the Witness Box. London, June 1, Sir Gordon Camming admitted having won £225 from the Prince of Wales, He had never thought to confront his accusers because his friends had failed to suggest that it was advisable. The seoond night (Sep!;. 9) they wore playing, the Prince of Wales, ho remembered, expressed a wish that players would exhibit their stakes, Clearly witness now believed that the advice given him to sign a declaration of guilt waa extremely bad. The Prince of Wales and hiß two friends, Lord Coventry and General Owen Williams, had written to him jointly that in the faoe of the overwhelming evidence it was useless for him to deny his guilt, The plaintiff proposes to oali tho Prince of Wales as a witness, June 2, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales was examined in the baooarat oase to-day. He stated tbat he did not see any irregularity in Sir W. Gordon Cumming's play, and it was Lord Coventry who first suggested that the plaintiff was not playing fairly, There were so many of tboßO present who eaid tbey had witnessed the unfair play that he oould not help believing the aooußation,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 130, 3 June 1891, Page 2
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