THE GAMBLING SCANDAL

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7034, 10 June 1891, Page 3

THE GAMBLING SCANDAL

LONDON, June 8. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has nominated Mr Stanley Wilson, who gave evidence in the baooaiat case, as a member of the Maryborough Club. In the coarse of his reply in the- b&eaarat case to day, . Sir Edward Ciark, SqlicitorGeneral, deolared that after the. evidence which had been taken it was impossible to remove Sir William Gordon (Jumming'd name from the Army Hat without also erasing the names of H R.H, the Pritce of Wales and General Owen Williams. Tliis statement created- an immense sensation ia Court. Oouneel contended thai Mr H. Stanley Wileoa was originally mistaken in vthe cdpatruotion he pot upon the plftintiff'f^tyle of play, and yet he afterwards 'soaghtTio'entrap hi^gnest. ,The acouaatipn of addingroonnters^was explained by the sJßtem of pTay pursaed by Sir but the eharge:jof withdrawing countere, which w^s not similarly explainable, had been abandoned. "Sir. 'Edward Olarka Hli it wad impossible to trndetstasd the goa«

duot Prince i "of Wales, Mr Ford Covefetry, and Mr Stanley ' Wilson beHen g , their : comrade fcuilty ol ! the charges mada „ against him, and his (odansel'g) own belief was that much of the evidence which could 1 have been given in the plaintiff's favor had evidently been sacrificed in the desire to save the Prince of Wale 3 from exposure. The la tit remark elicited load applause from the body of the Court.