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Show lilt 1IACC..HAT hCANUAL. Soj Crowd uf rashiouahle Paopla at the Trial Todar. , London, June 3. There was still the same crowd of fashionable people present pres-ent this morning when court opened to continue the trial of the baccarat case. Tbe Prince of Wales was in bis usual place. Sir Charles Russell, leading counsel for the defendants, commenced his address ad-dress on behalf of his clients. "There were niue persons concerned in this melancholy business." said Sir Charles, "all of whom have known the plaintiff, (dimming) for many years. Tho plaintiff admitted that he had said his accusers were acting conscientiously in this matter and the jury would find it impossible to believe those persons were mistaken in regard to the character of tbe plaintiff's conduct con-duct on tbe nights of the Hth and ilth of September, IS:lO. Tbe plaintiff had admitted they were all persons of honor and honesty and having hav-ing made the charges they adhered to them, and the plaifltilf had not asked to be confronted with cither of his accusers. The objection to secrecy came from Lycett Green, who asked that the matter be threshed out then and there In order to avoid a possibility of the plaintiff afterward repudiating the charges. The plaintilf had signed a degrading and humiliating hu-miliating document and he did not take steps to bring his slanderers to justice until he found himself in another tight place. Then he turned upon those who had been quiet and prepared to keep I their agreement, though in their eyes he was a dishonored man." With this remark Sir Charles seemed to take up another line of argument, for he said, looking earnestly at the jury: "And now, how about the three principal prin-cipal actors and tho plaintiff's action in regard to them? Do you, gentlemen of the jury, doubt that the plaintiff knew that each of those gentlemen believed him guilty? He knew that iu their eyes he was no lontrer in the category of honorable men. Was it conceivable that an innocent man under such circumstances should man unuer sucn circumstances suouia bear such an odious burden upon him? The defeodanls would tell the jury that their mouths had remained closed in this matter until January 7, lJS'.H. Four months after the baccarat games at Tramby Cralt.when Sir William mads an attempt through Berkeley Levett, one of the witnesses, to necure a modi-fiction modi-fiction or withdrawal of the charges, the defendants said they were prepared pre-pared to substantiate the charges which they had made against Sir William Wil-liam Gordon Gumming. Sir Charles Russell then laid special stress upon the 'peculiar circumstances" under which the action was brought and referred to an interview which Sir William Gordon dimming had with Lieutenant Levett, who was subaltern iu the plaintiff's regiment and who, being asked by Sir William to do what ho could with Mrs. Arthur Wilson iu regard to the baccarat scandal, scan-dal, replied tiiat he could uot disbelieve his own eyes.thousrh ho added ho would gladly do anything for the sake of Sir William and for the sake of bis regiment regi-ment to which they belong. "Thejplaiiitiff's conduct," Sir Charles continued, "at uo stage of this distressing distress-ing story, has been the conduct of an innocent and honorable man. No innocent and honorable man would have laid quiet under the charges made against the plaintiff, or signed the confession which tbe plaintilf signed." Tho counsel for the defendants then said the presentation pre-sentation was brought only when the plaintiff failed iu his efforts lo secure his retirement on half pay from the army. |