THE BACCARAT CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7187, 11 June 1891, Page 3

THE BACCARAT CASE.

— ♦ — j Opinions of the Press, , fSpKCIAL TO PHIBB ASSOCIATION.] 1 [Received June 11, at 10.35 p.m.] i LONDON, June 10. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge in his summing up in the Baccarat case, said I there was only one law for the peasant and Prince alike. He did not I blame the defendants for requesting \ Sir W. dimming to sign the con- ; fession, in order to shield the I Prince of "Wales from the scandal which they knew must arise if the facts were ever placed before a hard-judging world, which was not as subservient to royalty as in the days of the Tudors and Stuarts. He doubted whether the plaintiff had lost bis head under 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 the military j rules they should be subjected to a military tribunal. The Telegraph deplores the disclosures, which showed 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 divulged by the Prince of Wales to be the prize guest of rich vulgar families, and gratify their taste for the lowest type of gambling, has shocked and disgusted the people. The Welsh Baptist Conference, now sitting at Bangor, has passed i resolution deploring the gambling liabits of the Prince of Wales.