St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-06
THE PRINCES COUNTERS.
Jurymen Examine Them Sol
emnly and With Care.

- ufJ Iltn EAdnlno In6m Dol
emnly and With Care.
LONDON, June ALBERT Edwards
gambling proclivities seem fated to be
kept constantly before the court audi
ence and the public. To-day the pro-
ceedings were upon the point of COM
mencing with the resumption of the
cross-examinatiOn of Mrs. Lycett Green,
when the foreman of the jury. address
ing the lord chief justice, said that the
Jnrymen were desirouS of inspecting
the counters, which, as shown by young
Wilson's testimony yesterday, were the
property of The Prince of Wales. These
counters. by. direction of the lord chief
box, and the jnryl particularly ild the the
bold subject who has become historical
parsonage by actually "daringn to
question the Prince of Wales while the
latter was in the witness box, examined
the 910, 95 and e2 representations with
much interest, and in solemn, mys-
teriOus manner, as if expecting to read
OH their surfaces some further clue to
the unraveling of the baccarat mys-
terry; for mystery it still seems to be to
many people, in spite of the testimony
presented, as unprejudiced people join
Onet in bringing the suit has not been
any more clearly shown than has been
demonstrated the motive of the Wilson
family in their apparent bitterness.
RumorS i'll both these connections, in
which ladies' names are mentioned, still
fill the air.
When the jury had completed their
inspection of the Prince of Wales pri-
Vate counters, the OSS-eXaminatOn of
Mrs. Lycett Green was resumed. Mrs.
Green was pale and nervous and seemed
terribly anxious TO get through with
her share of the trial. But Sir Edward
Clarke, after having by an overturning
of testimony thoroughly refreshed the
jurors minds in regard to Mrs. Green's
evidence, and once more placed the
situation clearly before the jury, ad-
dressing the witness, said:
You don't know much about the
game. do you?" ooh, yes | do"
quickly and Indignantly replied the
young lady.
The solicitor general then branched
off into an entirely new line of thought.
and asked Mrs. Green several questions
as to whether or not she was acquainted
with man named Bowles. Mrs. Green
replied in substance that she did not
know q man named BOwlSS. After
some further questions, Mrs. Arthur
Wilson, the mother of young Arthur
Stanley Wilson, was called to the wit
ness stand. Mrs. Wilson repeated in
detail the evidence which has already
been given as to the manner Ill which
the baronet cheated. by slipping
an additional counter out of his
hand, or Tipping it across the
line with pencil. when the
card turned up was favorable to
him. Mrs. Wilson, in addition, was
most emphatic in her disclaimers that
there had been any agreement entered
into by the Wilson family to watch the
plaintiff play on the second night of the
baccarat playing at TranbycrOft. The
position which Sir William Gordon
Cumming occupied on both nights at
the baccarat tables was purely the re-
suit of accident. In other words. the
baronet did not choose his position. He
simply took the seat he occupied from
the fact that nobody else had previously
taken seat at that place.
Referring to the occasion when Lady
Coventry declared natural" Mrs.
Wilson said that she saw the plaintiff
push an extra $40 counter over the line.
and, said the witness, this was done
in such an open manner that she Won
dered how it was possible that the other
people playing failed to observe the
plaintiffs action. Witness said she
had an interview with the Prince of
Wales on the subject On the following
day, and that she expressed fears that
her son, Arthur Stanley Wilson, would
suffer from the after effects of what had
occurred, owing to the fact that he had
been the first person to notice and to
call attention to the Daronet'S cheating.
But, she said, the Prince of Wales list
ened to all she had to say on this sub
iect, and then told her, in the kindest
manner possible, that there was no need
for her to fear anything of the kind.
Her husband. Arthur Wilson Sr., she
continued, had objected to baccarat
playing because, in his opinion, the play
might become high "among hot-headed
boys" Laughter. On previous oc-
casion, she continued, the sum of $500
had got into the bank, which amount
her husband thought was too large.
"Why did you not tell the Prince of
Wales that your husband objected to
baccarat?" asked Sir Edward Clarke,
BECAUSE" replied Mrs. Wilson, "we
were such staid, non-gambling party
that we did not think that there could
be much harm resulting from a few
quiet games at baecarat,"
Witness kept her self-possessio9 fairly
we'll through this part Of the examina-
ton, but yef visibly annoyed at the loud
litter that Greeted her quaint reason for