The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-06-13
The Jury in the Baccarat Case Bring
in asVertlict Against Cor
don Cumming.
The Verdict Pleases the AristOcrats
and DispleaSrs the Mass of
the People.
The Defendants Left the Court AZ
Though They Had Expert
enced Il Defeat.
A Verdict Against Cumming.


to all appearances was the most I'M
moved man in court. He folded his
arms aud looked straight at the jury, but
otherwise did not move muscle, his
face not showing the slightest trace of
emotion. Lord Middleton, however,
flushed scarlet and then turned very
pale. Mrs. Arthur Wilson and Mrs. Ly-
cett Green were also noticed to turn pale
when the verdict was rendered and We
evidently badly frightened when they
heard the Kisses which greeted it. The
two ladies mentioned stood for several
minutes whispering earnestly with their
counsel, and then, accompanied by their
respective husbands, they passed slowly
out of court with bowed heads, nobody
speaking to them and to all appearances
the objects of much dislike. In fact, SO
frightened and downcast was the bear
ing of the defendants, unless Berkeley
Levett be excepted, that anybody would
have taken them for people who had Just
had Il crushing. whitening verdict ren-
dered against them. 1.-The Wilson's win"
had, as ii by magic, spread from the
court room to the crowd outside and
from there all over London, and it was
again made evident as the defendants
drove away, by the chilling manner in
which they were regarded, ,that popular
sympathy was with the guest of Tranby
Croft, whose future was now as black
looking as that of a man condemned to a
long term of Imprisonment for some
heinuus crime. In the meanwhile, how
different was the greeting extended to
the defeated litigant, to tho unsuccessful
plaintiff, Sir William Gordon Cumming!
While the defendants were leaving the
court room with sinking hearts, SIR Will
liam had remained all this time calmly
seated in his usual place. When tho
Wilson's had disappeared, the baronet
stood up and gratefully, smilingly shook
hands with Sir Edward Clarke and with
others who pressed around him with
many cheering words of sympathy for the
man whose career was thus blighted be
yond all hopes. The soldierly form of
Sir William, instead of shrinking beneath
the blow which had been dealt him,
seemed to be proudly drawn up to it's
full height, as he walked slowly, but
steadily to the little table near by, donned
his overcoat carefully placed his hat ON
his head and, accompanied by Lord Mid
dleton, walked out of the court by one of
the private exits, followed by The pitying
glance of the ladies who still
remained in the galleries. anxious to
have the last glimpse of the victim of
Tranby Croft baccarat playing. AS,
still proud looking, Baronet and Lord
Middleton left the new law courts. there
WAS another instance of the different
manner in which the general public
looked upon victorious defendants and a
defeated plaintiff. Sir William and
Lord Middleton were no sooner recog-
nized, as they entered the latters carri-
age, than they were loudly, repeatedly
and enthusiastically cheered by the
dense excited crowds, packing every ap-
proach to the new law courts, this re-
ception contrasting vlvidly and more
significantly with the totally different
manner and dead silence with which the
Wilson's were greeted as they drove
away. The effect of the verdict in the
military circles, it is generally under
stood, is that Sir William Gordon Cum
mings, major and Northumberland of
Scots Fusiler guards, will be promptly
cashiered from the army, and just as
quickly expelled from the Marlborough
other social organizations to which he
of the lord chief justice, during the af
against Sir VIM. Gordon Cumming than
we're the chief justices remarks made
during the morning. The afternoon ut
terances of Lord Coleridge may be said
to have amounted practically to instruc-
tions to find verdict against the plant
itf. One of the baccarat case jurymen
who was interviewed after court had
finally adjourned said there was no
doubt from the moment the jury retired
as to how the verdict would 90. Each
of the jnrymen, he said, was asked, as
soon as they were alone, whether he was
for the plaintiff or for the defendant and
each reply was given without hesitation
and Immediately for the defendants. One
jnryman, d gentleman who was inter
viewed, admitted frankly that he nm
doubtedly sympathized with the plaint-
itf. but he was so struck with the nnan-
unity of opinion which prevailed in favor
of the de endants that, although he
would have like.l to have foun! for the
plaintiff, he said he could not conscien-
tiously do SO in the face of the evidence
which had been presented ON behalf of
the defense. The interviewed juryman
said in conclusion that it app ared to
him the jury had made mp their minds as
the lord chief justice summed up and
made his CHARGE