St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-02
BEATINGAT BACCARAT
Sir William Gordon Cumming
Relates His Story Of the
Scandal.
his Highness Of Wales At
tracts Very Fashionable
Audience.
Many Of England's Wealthy
and Noble Throng the
Court.
No Room for the Common
Rabble at This Fashion
able Event.

LONDON, June 1.-The high court of
Justice to-day presented scene, inside
and out, such as could be witnessed,
probably in no other city in the world.
Prominent members of the ''high nobil-
ity'' were to appear as principals in
a sensational trial-a gambling scandal
and the assured appearance of the
heir apparent as one of the principal
witnesses proved sufficient to draw to
the vicinity the usual crowd of sight
Beers who naturally gather at the
scene of all important trials. The latter
waited patiently, laughing and jesting,
playing practical jokes, and guying
everybody guyable, enjoying the warm
sunshine and eager to obtain even the
faintest glimpse of the celebrities in
the world of the upper ten" who were
expected to be present. Inside the
court room resembled the scene
Of some highly fashionable recep-
lion, rather than grim law
court, where an important case was to
be brought to trial. Women, strange
to say, predominated in the audience,
and in the long gallerie, ladies, charm
ingly brilliant in triumphs of the mod
iSte'S art, filled the whole available
space. Others, more favored and equally
bewitchingly dressed, occupied reserved
seats on the bench. All the ladies were
talking in an animated manner and
flashing their lorgnettes here and there,
studying out the identity of everybody
of note present. and criticising the most
conspicuous costumes in the most lively
manner. One and all. ladies and gen
tlemen, were most eager for the "shOW," :"
for such to them il seemed to be, to
begin in real earnest. The occasion for
all this was the trial of the
Famous Baccarat Scandal.
otherwise the action of Sir William
Gordon Cumming against Mr.. and
Mrs. Lycett Green, Mrs. Arthur Wilson,
Arthur Wilson and Berkeley Lovett for
SANDER before Lord Chief Justice Cole
ridge in the queens bench division of
her majesty's high court of Justice.
Lord Coleridge, in disposing of the
seats in the court room, had to resist
much pressure from sWarms of aristo-
cratic nOtabllltieS, male and female, who
desired to be present and who seemed
TO be under the impression that they
had right to be present and that it was
for the lord chief Justice to see that this
alleged right was respected. But Lord
Coleridge was not so easily ''bulldozed."
He gave orders that admission to the
court was to be by special tickets only,
and he announced that he would be
able to accommodate only few of the
most distinguished applicants with seats
beside him on the bench, reserving the
main body of the court for members of
the bar, witnesses, jurymen and
about thirty-five newspaper representa-
tives. The first tremor of excitement
was caused by the arrival in the court
room of Sir William Gordon Cumming,
the plaintiff, accompanied by his coun-
sci, Solicitor General Clarke and Mr..
Gill. Opposed to these legal lights are
Sir Charles Russell, as chief counsel,
MIR. AsQuith, Q. c., and Arthur Russell.
The plaintiff was cool and calm, but ap-
parently not in the best of humor. The
legal lights were evidently conscious of
the conspicuous position in which they
were placed and seemed rather to enjoy
the fusillade of glances from bright fe-
male eyes to which they were exposed
until the Prince of Wales made his ap-
pearance.