The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-10
Verdict in Favor of Notorious
Prince Of Baccarat.
AUDIENCE Kisses THE JURY.
The Lord Chief Justice Palliates tho
Heir Apparent's Misdeeds.
Cumming VIM Be Expelled From tho
Army and the Clubs, but the People
VIII Deal with the Depraved Albert
Edward-Aristocrats Mad ct Clarke.

hcsn Ioiu nls glorious week at the bac.
carat trial. was at the Ascot races today,
accompanied by the Princess of Wales and
her daughters. the Duke of Clarence, the
Duke of Cambridge and others. All along
the route from Windsor castle the prince
was received with the utmost enthusiasm.
cumming held consultation with Sir
EDWARD Clarke, Mr.. Gill and his solicitor in
the course of the evening before proceed
ing home, where he denied himself to all
corners.
Tonight the members of the Turf club
seemed undecided how to act. Personally
Cumming is liked, and many are averse to
his expulsion.
The division of public feeling upon the
verdict will be largely class division, the
aristocrats siding with the decision, while
the mass of the public sympathixe with
Cumming and accuse the judge Of gross
partiality.
The Kissing with which the gallery Of
the court saluted the verdict was repeated
outside by an excited crowd thronging the
corridors. Insulting illusions were ad-
dressed to the defendants Mr.. Lewis,
their solicitor, had to fly for safety to the
adjacent chancery court, where he escaped
by climbing over bench.
Sir Edward Clarks's friends fear that
the increased distinction he has acquired
in the trial win not commend him to the
court. The line he took in his illusions 10
the Prince of Wales is attended with con-
siderable social risk. Lobby report credits
certain ministers with telling Sir Edward
that he went too far in his comments upon
the prince.
The political issues of the affair promise
speedy development. A group of radicals
in the house of commons have decided to
devise discussion with special reference
to the Prince of Wales by motions upon
the army estimates.
An indication as to how the religious
public view the scandal is given in
speech made at a meeting of Methodist
leaders on the suppression Of gambling.
Mr.. Moulton, president of the Wesleyan
conference, declared that gambling perme-
ated all classes, and it was time the evil
was confronted, else it would ruin society.
Prince Hughes was cheered TO the echo IA
saying he took the first opportunity to
thank Sir Edward Clarke for his fearless
and manly speech. 1t was grouud for Bit
ter regret that the heir to the throne
should be given to one of the worst forms
of gambling.
Referring to the. baccarat case the Poss
says: The signing Of the document rem
dered it impossible for the counsel to re-
habilitate the honor which Cumming him.
self treated so lightly. Lord Coleridge
took a just aspect of the Prince of Wales
connection and of the morality of bacca-
rat. The whole party displayed want of
clearheadedness, or they would not have
created additional difficult BIZ -lavir~
the second night.
The Chronicle has q scathine article two
columns in length, in which it condemns
the finding of the jury and Lord Coler-
idge's partiality. 1t declares that no
evidence was adduced that was incon-
sistent with the hypothesis that Cumming
merely played a well-known coup de tros.
1t says that the verdict means that, though
for twenty years card player without
provoking the slightest suspicion, Cum
ming had suddenly plunged into wild
orgy by cheating the only man
in the world on whose patronage
his social and professional life depended.
There is nothing incredible in his signing
document on the strength OF q statement
from Wales cringing minions booming
him to a fate worse than death in order to
save what the prince is pleased to
call his "honor." The article, proceeding,
fatty accuses the Prince of Wales Of
aviolation of the pledge of secrecy, and
calls upon the authorities to indict Sir
William Gordon Cumming for the criminal
offense of cheating. 1t declares that If
they do not the public viii know what to
think, and that :if the Duke
Of Cambridge shrinks from his duty in
regard to the military offense it is to be
hoped that parliament viii not prove
pusillanimous. The Chronicle finally asks
what step will be taken to vindicate justice
in the crime which the Prince of Wales
compounded by signing the compact, or
whether the infamous scandal will be
hushed up forever
The Times advises the Wilson family,
which Ii accuses of being indirectly re-
sponsible for the tragic ruin of a fine
career, to remain in social retirement. The
Times profoundly regrets the connection Of
the Prince Of Wales with the affair, making
every allowance for the monotony
of Wales existence, and admitting
the tact with which he per.
formed his duties, if he is known to
pursue questionable pleasures, the serious
public, who are the backbone of England,
will resent. We almost wish for the sake
of English society that the prince had also
signed declaration that he would never
touch card again.
The Standard says that the defendants
and their friends have tarnished their own
reputation, even If the plaintiff did come
out the worst. It will not be easily for
gotten that the Prince of Wales instigated
the game and carried the apparatus about
with him.
The Ncws says no other verdict is pos
sible. Cummings signing Of the docu-
ment was damning. But the pity Of il all
is in the presence Of the heir to the throne
at the head of the baccarat table. 1t is
grotesque to have prince carrying about
baccarat counters wherever he goes, as
Mohammedan carries his praying carpet.
The Telegraph urges that pity be mingled
with condemnation over the miserable end
Of brilliant career. It warmly defends
the Prince Of Wales against everything
but indiscretion.
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