THE BACCARAT CASE
NOTABLE TRIALS SERIES To their notable British Trials series, Messrs. Buttenvorth and Company have added " The Baccarat Case," an action of 1891 which created a sensation by reason of the connection of the Prince of Wales (the late King Edward VII.) with it, and the social standing of all the parties. Sir William Gordon-Cumming, an officer of the Guards and a personal friend of the Prince of Wales brought an action of slander against a former hostess and her friends who alleged that he had cheated at baccarat at a country houseparty when the Prince was playing. Tlio jury found for the defendants, but tho editor of this book, the late Mr. W. Teignmoutb Shaw suggests that Sir William was a much-wronged man. The volume is practically a verbatim roport of the case. Tho judge was Lord Coleridge; counsel for the plaintiff was Sir Edward Clark, Q.C.; and leading counsel for defendants were Sir Charles Russell, Q.C., and Mr. H. H. Asquith,Q.C.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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165THE BACCARAT CASE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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