THE BACCARAT CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7181, 4 June 1891, Page 4

THE BACCARAT CASE.

EVIDENCE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES, f Special to Pbjssb Association.] , LONDON, Juke 2. The baccarat case was resumed today. Sir Charles Russell's crossexamination of Sir Gordon Cumming is regarded as damaging to the plaintiff's case. The evidence today elicited but few now facts. The plaiutiff, under cross-examina-tion, resorfad to absolute innocence as regards the play, and explained that his winning from the Prince of "Wales and others •was owing to the system of his play. The examination of the Priuce of Wales was brief, and his evidence colourless. He said that the statement of five eyewitnosßes, that they had observed Sir Gordon Cumming cheating, evidently influenced his judgment in the matter. General Owen Williams was examined, and admitted that he did no 6 see any cheating on the part of the plaintiff. »Stili, he and others signed the confession in order to secure the required silence. The witness declared that the Prince of Wales told Bir Gordon Cumming that to play with his hands on the table did not look well. He said Mr Lysett Green, son-in-law of Mr Arthur Wilson, at whose residence the offence is alleged to have been committed, was the first to accuse the plaintiff of cheating, and that Mr Berkley Livitt also witnessed it. Juke 3. In his evidence, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales said that in an interview ho had with Sir William Gordon Cumming at Tranby Court on the night of the alleged cheating, the latter denied the charge. Tha witness did not observe any cheating himself, but the charges made by others were so unanimous that there waa no other course but to believe Sir William guilty. The case for the plaintiff has closed.