Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-10
DESPITE THE VERDICT
Miss Garner is Married to Sir VIII
liam Gordon Cumming.
ECHOES OF THE BhCCARkf SCANDAL
Unveiling Monument to the Con-
federate Dead.
CANADA'S PREMIER BURIED.
ECHOES OF THE BhCCARAf SCANDAL
cANApA's PREMIER BURIED.
SIR WILLIAM WEEDS.

Miss Flerence Garner OF New York Married
90 Him I'm London This Morning.
LONDON, June i0.-Sir William Gordon Cum
ming wss married at II O'Clock this morning in
fashionable Holy Trinity Church at Chelsea to
Miss Florence Garner, daughter of the late
Commodore William Garner Of New York city.
Lord Thurlow gave the bride away. Major
Nesey Dawson of the Coldstream Guards was
the best man. The Rev. r. Eyton ofhciAted.
The marriage was practically y secret mar
risge. Only twelve people were present st the
ceremonies at holy Trinity. The bride looked
charmingly happy and Sir William was proud
looking, cool and entirely self-possessed.
There was no trace In HE per-
sonal appearance of depression or emotion
resulting from yesterdays verdic, in the court
Of queens bench. Lady and Sir William Cor
don Cumming left the CITY shortly after the
Ceremony for the bridegroom estate Ht Altyre
near Forres in Scotland, where they Will spend
the honeymoon.
SIR WILLIAM HAS NOTHING TO SAT-.
In an interview Sir William Gordon Cum
ming said that be had nothing to add TO what
be had said In the witness box. The popular
opinion of the verdict he added, was
shown by the demonstrations in court
SIR William Gordon Cumming refused to
say anything in regard TO the COM
ments of the newspapers upon the case just de-
clded, saving that the newspapers were at per-
feet liberty to say what they pleased. When
the verdict. was pronounced against
him, Sir William again offered 10
cancel his engagement 10 Miss Garner
but that lady, believing in his
innocence, would not hear OF such a thing and
insisted that the marriage should take place to-
day. IL Is expected that sir William and hls
wife will visit the United States IN the autumn.
Lady Gordon Cumming is the eldest daughte
OF the late Commodore William Garner Of
New York. who drowned IN July. 1916,
with his wife. through the cspslzing Of Mr..
Garners yacht Mohawk.
ECHOES or THE SCANDAL
Echoes Of the baccarat scandal suit still I'll
the air. The solicitor general. Sir Edward
Clarke, who so ably argued the case. is Ill and
thoroughly exhausted today. He has entirely
lost the use of his voice and IL obliged TO re-
ire from an important case in which he
was retained for today. The denuncia-
tion Of the Prince Of Wales by the newspaper
press, especially his denunciation by the tory
press, has caused tremendous sensation
throughout Great Britain, and ii il asserted
that the revelations made during the trial Of
the baccarat scandal suit in court are judged
TO have done more to imperil the monarchy
than any event which has taken place for many
years past in England.
THE CRY FRAUD" RAISED.
Friends of Sir William nov claim that the Jury
was packed, and that 80 far from the defense
being surprised by the questions which jury
man addressed to the Prince Of Wales
the questions were expected and had
been arranged i'm advance in order to
give the prince pretert for declaring his
behef IN Cummings guilt A juryman has
admitted that the case was settled against the
plaintiff by the evidence Of the prince, and
pecially the answer OF the latter declaring that
he bad found it impossible to discredit the
evidence against Cumming. Ii is said that all