New-York tribune., 1895-12-29
DUNRAVEN SAILS AWAY.
HIS COUNSEL REMAINS HERE.
END OF THE SECOND DAY OF THE IN
QUIRY INTO THE EARL's CHARGES.


CURRY INTO THE EARLs CHARGES.
WITH THE TRIAL SILENT AS TO THE PRO-
CErDINGs AT THE YACHT CLUB
NAMES OF THE wITNESsEs-IN-
vEsTIGArIoN TO BE CON-
TINUED TOMORROW.
The Earl of Dunraven, who arrived here on
Christmas from England to lay before the New
York Yacht Club Investigation Committee mis-
charges OF alleged fraud returned to Europe
yesterday by the Cunard Line steamer Umbrla,
convinced beyond doubt that 1t is thing
to prefer charges of fraud. and a more dIi!i-
cult thing to prove these charges. The de-
parture OF Dunraven was carried out with
the same degree of secrecy as has characterized
all his movements. while the bodyguard which
escorted him to the Cunard steamship the
same which received him on his arrival few
days ago. Even after he had gone aboard. his
friend II. NJ. Kersey, would not say whether
he had engaged passage and refused to answer
when asked who his companion on the voyage
would be. The first officer of the ship was
asked the number OF the room or rooms taken
by the Earl Of Dunraven, and in reply said
he did not even know his lordship was aboard.
People who knew that Dunraven had come
over in order to press his charges and present
a large amount Of evidence that he had ac-
cumulated were inclined to doubt that he had
left the country before the evidence was oil In
and before the committee had opportunity
to make a report to his grave allegations.
At any rate the investigation to the cor
rectness Of his charges against the Defender
oft bic ftfro
and was not finished when the committee ad-
journed at 6 o'clock last night.
FEARS HAD VANISHED.
When the investigation began it was believed
by some, despite their perfect confidence in the
integrity of the Defender syndicate, that there
might be some foundation for the charges made
by Dunraven. They had misgivings. and feared
that Dunraven might produce some testimony
which would give color and reasonable appear
| ance to his charges: but when the Dunraven
case was closed on Friday these fears had van
| ished and it became evident that the yacht club
member who said that Dunraven Opened a
jackpot with pair Of tens" was right
Mr.. Askwith's address. delivered or the first
day of the session. nothing more than re-
| hash Of Dunravens charges In THE Field" and
| his Cardiff speech and the afIidavts which were
submitted in support of the charges were too
weak and too vague to add weight to the hmsy.
| h.my fiction on which the alleged fraud was
| founded. The evidence of Arthur Glennie, who
sailed on the Valkyre with Dunraven, who was
| his representative in this country during the
| international races and was an interested spec
tator al all of the trial races contained nothing
| tangible, and was at best only weak echo OF
/, ne Earrs insinuations The black dispatch
- tt0v, -tly ha
Earrs party landed and continued to be an OBJ
| ject Of interest when the English contingent
went from their apartments In Twenty -iifth-st.
| to the clubhouse. contained nothing of danger
Gus character and It was 40 wonder that Mr..
Iselin looked pleased when the first session was
over and when the English evidence was all in.
| No wonder that he said to the newspaper men,
Wait until tomorrow"
ANOTHER SECRET SESSION.
| Yesterdays session was like the one on Fri
day. a secret one and the wall which the COM
mittee had placed around the clubhouse was
| less penetrable than on the first day, ana the
| silence of ali those connected In the remotest
| way with the trial was more pronounced than
| IL had been. The members of the Inquiry COM
| mittee were on hand early and entered the
yacht club looking grave and solemn as so
| many ermined judges. They gave notice by
| look and bv gesture that they would be no more
| communicative than they were on the first day
| Of the investigation, and the anxious watchers
knew that all the news from the inquisition
| chamber must come. a little of the first did,
| through the taproom to the smokeroom and
| tbonco nv way of the bliard-room to the
| street
As on the first day. George J.. Rives was the
| first member of the committee to arrive. few
minutee later J. Plerpont Morgan drew up in a
! broughar and then came Captain Han ana
| Captain Terry, with fourteen members or the
| Defender crew Their Enthusiastically DOWN
| East stvie of dress and altogether democratic
appearance were In striking contrast with the
| air of elegance which surrounded William Z.
Whitney. Joseph H. ChOate, C. Oliver lsellh
and others of the investigation party VINO ar
| rived at the clubhouse at about the same thie
| with the brawny sailor-men. Captain Mah4h'
! Herbert c. Leeds, Latham 4. Fish. Edward j.
Phelps. Captain Hyelop. Gouverneur Kortrght
and William Butler Duncan were among those
! who came before the second session was called
| TO order
Lord Dunraven left the apartments or H. NJ
Kersey. No 40 East Twenty-nfth-st.. at about
| 10 o'clock He wore long black ulster ana
q look which physiognomist diagnosed as a
| cross between acute disappointment and unmiti-
rated disgust His lawyer was with him ana
so was Mr. Hamilton but the black box had
evidently served It's purpose and was left behind'
The detectives were on duty again-two were sta
toned at the door. on the stairway leading
IN the model room and one placed where he
| could see the roof from which point an overzeai-
Gus newspaper man endeavored to watch the
proceedings the first day.
THE ENSIGN HOIsTED.
| II was 1920 a. m before the club ensign was
| hoisted to show that the fecond days session
| had been opened Nat Herreshoif. the designer
| OF the Defender who was the first witness called
after the English evidence was all in was called
| 10 the stand Immediately after the session
| onered II was understood that the evidence