The Baccarat Scandal

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 181, 4 June 1891, Page 2

The Baccarat Scandal

London, June 2. I The baccarat oase was resumed to-day, Sir Charles Russell's cross-examination of Sir Oordon Gumming ,is regarded as damaging to the plaintiff's oase. The evidence to day elioited but few new f aots. The plaintiff under cross examination asserted his absolute innocence as regards the play, and explained his winning from the Prinoe of Wales and others waa owing to the system of his play. ' The examination of the Prince of Wales was brief, and hia evidence colourless. He said that the state' ment of five eye witnesses that thoy had observed Sir Gordon Gumming oheating evidently influenced his judgment in the matter. General Owen Williams was examined, and said that he did not see any oheating on the part of the plaintiff, still, he and others signed the oonfession in order to receive- ehe required silence. The witness deolared that the Prmoe of Wales told Sir Gordon Gumming that to play with his hands on the table did not look well. He said Mr Lysett Greon, son-in-law of Mr Arthur Wilson, at whose residenoe tho off enoe is alleged to have been committed, was the first to accuse the plaintiff of cheating, and Mr Birkeley Lysett also witnessed it. *