THE BACCARAT SCANDAL,

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9140, 12 June 1891, Page 2

THE BACCARAT SCANDAL,

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

(Special to Press Association.)

London, June 10,

(Eeoelved June 11, at 10.35 a.m.)

Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, in summing up in the baccarat liable case, said that there was only one law for the peasant and prince alike. He did not blame the defendants for requesting Sir W. Cuoaming to sign the confession in order to shield the Prince of Walesfrom a scandal which they knew must arise if the facts were ever placed before a hard judgiDg world, which was not subservient to royalty, as in the days of the Tudors and Stuarts. He doubted* whether the plaintiff had lost his head under the stress of the painful condition in which he was placed. The learned judge went on to say that if the Prince of Wales and General Williams had broken military rules they should be subjected to a military tribunal. Tke Telegraph deplores the disclosures, which show that baccarat has so deep a hold on its devotees as to induce them to carry about with them the apparatus necessary for playing the game. The Chronicle condemns the verdict, and suggests that the readiness shown by the Prince of Wales to be the prize guest of rich, vulgar families, and to gratify their tastes for the lowest type of gambling, has shocked and disgusted the people.

The Welsh Baptist Conference, now sitting at Bangor, have passed a resolution deploring the gambling habits of the Prince of Wales.