The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-06-13

While the Defendants Stink Away Pale
With Fear and Kissed by
the Crowd.
PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANTS.
The First Cool, Calm and Collected, the
Latter Flurried and Excited.

Latter Flurried and Excited.
LONDON. June 9.-When the baccarat
verdict was announced to be against Sill
William Gordon Cumming today the lat
ter. to all appearances, was the most un,
moved man in the court. He folded his
arms and looked straight at the jury. but
otherwise did not move a muscle, his face
not showing the slightest trace of emo
ton. Lord Middleton, however. flushed
scarlet and then turned very pale. Mrs
Arthur Wilson and Mrs. Lycett Green
were also noticed to turn pale when the
verdict was rendered and were evidently
badly frightened when they heard the
Kisses which greeted it.
The two ladies mentioned stood 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
objects of much dislike, in fact SO
frightened and downcast was the bear
ing of the defendants unless Berkeley
Levett be excepted, that nobody would
have taken them for people who had a
crushing, whitening verdict rendered
against them.
THE Wilson's win" had as if by magic
spread from the court room to the crowd
outside and from there ali oven London.
and it was again made evident as
the defendants drove away by the chill
ing name in which they were regarded.
that popular sympathy was with the
guest of Iranbycroft, whose future was
now as black looking as that Of the mar
condemned to a long term OF imprison-
ment for some heinous crime.
In the meanwhile how different was
the greeting extended to the defeated
litigant, TO the unsuccessful plaintiff, Sir
William Gordon Cumming. The latter
all this time, while the defendants we're
with sinking hearts leaving the court
room, had remained calmly seated in his
usual place. When the Wilson's had
disappeared the baronet stood up and
gracefully and smilingly shook hands
with Sir Edward Clarke and with others
who pressed around him with many
cheering words of sympathy for the mar
whose career was thus blighted beyond
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 its full height
as he walked slowly but steadily to the
table near by, donned his overcoat,
carefully placed his hat on his head and
accompanied by Lord Middleton walked
out of the court by one of the private
exits. followed by the plying glances of
the ladies who still remained in the gal
leries anxious to have a last glimpse of
the victim of Tranbycroft baccarat play
ing.
As the still proud looking baronet and
Lord Middleton left the new law courts
there was another instance of the differ
ent in which the general public
upon the victorious defendants
and upon the defeated plaintiff. Sir Will
and Lord Middleton were no sooner
as they entered the %latter's
carriage than they were loudly, repeatedly
and enthusiastically cheered by the
dense, excited crowds packing every ap-
prOach to the new law courts. This re-
contrasted wildly and most sig
niticantly with the totally different man
ner of dead silence with which the Will
sons were greeted as they drove away.
The effect of the verdict on military
circles il is generally understood is that
Sir William Gordon Cummings, major
and lieutenant colonel of the SCOTS
fusiler guards will be promptly cashiered
the army and just as quickly ex-
PEELED from the Marlborough club, the
guards club, the turf club and other
social organizations to which he may be-
long. The summing up of the lord chief
justice during the afternoon was I'M
doubtedly strongly against Sir
William Gordon Cummings than were
the chief Justices remarks made during
the morning. The afternoon utterances
of Lord COleridge may be said to have
amounted practically to instructions to
find a verdict against the plaintiff.
One OF the baccarat case jurymen who
was interviewed after the court had fin
ally adjourned, said there was no doubt
from the moment the jury retired as to
how the verdict would go. Each of the
jurymen, he said, was asked az soon as
they were alone, whether he was for the
plaintiff or for the defendants, and each
reply was given without hesitation and
Immediately, ''for the defendants" One
juryman, a gentleman who was inter
viewed, frankly admitted he
undoubtedly sympathized with the
plaintiff, but he was struck with the
unanimity Of opinion which prevailed in