The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-06-11
THAT rs THE VERDICT REM
DERED BY THE BACCARAT
JURY IN LONDON ,~r
SIR WILLIAM GORDON CUMMING
EOund Guilty Instead of the Wilson
neutrality-suspicious. and Closing
Scenes of the Trial

LONDON, June 9.-The jury in the
Daccarat case returned verdict
against Sir William Gordon Cumming.
Lord Chief Justice at the opening of
his speech, explained to the jury at
length the difference of an action for
SANDER and this one which was an ac-
ltior for libel. His lordship added,
that ii ne jury found that the defen.
dants had spoken the truth, then the
verdict should be for the defendants,
but il The jury thought that the
4 charges we're not true and that Sir
William Gordon Cumming did not do
anything wrong in playing baccarat
At pranby Croft, then the verdict
mnst be for the plaintiff.
Lord Coleridge then entreated the
Jury to keep their minds steady on the
evidence only.
Continuing the chief justice ana
n ly2ed at length the evidence given by
"A the plaintiff, which evidence, he said,
was well worthy of consideration. The
plaintiff may, he added, have had his
counters on the pile of white paper
and would have been less likely to be
q detected if he had, as the others did,
p0t their counters on the cloth of the
& table. During another portion of his
N summing up he said that the Prince
u of Wales presence at Tanby Croft
$ fas efficient to explain Lycett
as 5leea5 objection to creating a dis
N tnrHause in the baccarat room, or
& elsewhere, by calling attention to the
" actions which he objected to on the
81 part ot Sir William Gordon Cumming.
"Sir Edward Clarke" said Lord Col.
" aridge, "had said that the eye saw
n what the eye expected and undoubt-
a adlv. if the persous had their minds
$ SET on certain things, less proof was
sufficient to satisfy them than would
he Otherwise needed. But the ques-
ZION WAS as to whether, in this case,
The observation referred to would ap-
4 NV sir Edward Clarke" the Lord
t,iief Justice continued, had COM
mentpA upon Berkeley Levett,s excla
mation. "dood God! Sir William Cor.
don cumming caught cheating" But
he uu1osed that the remark had been,
"t9oud Heavens the arch bishop OF
Ncyl scotia, the prelate of the order
OF the sun, caught selling and bib
bing. Laughter. There would
have Seen nothing unlikely in such an
e1cap Ltion.
Lord Coleridge also called the at
4 ten rion of the jury to particular, o6
seryation, which was made on behalf
OF the plaintiff during the course OF
81 the trisIl 1t was to the effect that
there was more in the case than ap
4 pearel on the surface. Against this
n the Lord Chief Justice remarked:
n II most emphatically protest. The
N jury oas nothing to do with thiggs
which are not on the surface. You
N have to confine yourselves to the
# single issue. aud what you have heard
8 and hat has been proved during the
trial y - .t':1> -,
Whsn Lord Coleridge had proceeded
ii thus lar with his charge to the jury
fhe hour of noon had arrived, and the
Il court. as usual, adjourned for
n }upoheon. i''.,f -"
THE GENERAL OPINION.
During the discussion which follow
n ed the remarks of the lord chief justice
g the General opinion arrived at was the
n ehaIge was made out against slr Wm'
Gn~don Cumming, although nothing
Scr;sive had been said either way.
Wnsn the chief justice defined the law
ii .1fUhal as different from the law OF
N slan7er and when he gave special In.
struetions in regard to the amount OF
81 Manages which the jury should, II
thev 90 desiredi assess in the event
fhev found for, the plaintiff it was con
sid cred that Lord Coleridge's lnstruc-
n fings decide, " favored Sir William
N {R0ydon Cumming.
N gGt when he analyZed the eVl.
dence of the defendants and that OF
n SgeU. Williams, the Prince OF Wales
N aug Lord Coventry, it was judged that
n f]15z vas in effect an endorsement OF
2 fbai. evidence. In this connection,
IA E,arJ Coleridge said that Sir William
Nj lJo,rIlon Cumming did not come. there
s tr m AXE a fortune, and that his charac.
81 Tor ,yould be sufficiently cleared by the
inrv awarding him, should the evil
81 lance warrant q small amount oi
damages. =. ,;., -.
lem th the high position and brave
esTeer of Sir William, saying that the
4 l. ter went to Tranby Croft as the
a sT7sst. and, ''if might be permitted
Sn saw il, as a sort. of prize guest, o,
n wbom the hostess might be proud.
A ter Luncheon the lord chief justice
resumed his summing up. While ad
sgisviug the impossibility, OF man o.
Sir Williams position and wealth low
ering himself to, cheat, and to chea
his friend, the Prince of Wales, too.
LORD CoLERIDGE .@7@
& IL a strono point ga hst the piafil
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