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Show THE BACCARAT MYSTERY Eip.rt FI..V' T.lok Ciari.n-Cammt.K lanao.atWbr U lit elf th r.par. London Truth. A correspondent write from Aix-le- Baine: Tho puneraUy expressed opinion here, which is, I might almost ay, the headquarters of baccarat, is that if Sir William Gordo'i Cuuimiou had been tried by a j iry of b-icearat experts, the verdict would have gone in his favor, for it is considered that it is impossible for a puutor at the game systematically to increase hi siako without detection. Anyone with experience of the game a a banker knows fully well that, whatever may bo ttia amount of the j bank, it is absolutely nocessary for tho ' banker carefully to estimate the amount staked on both aides before drawing cards and this for two reasons: rea-sons: 1. lie must see ou winch sidj tho balance of the money is, in order to decide whether he will draw or not if his two lust cards make together a low point and there is a low point made on onn side and a high one on the other, i. lie must bo awaro what is the total btaked ou both sides, in order or-der to kuow whether he has enough in bunk to pv iu the event of his losing on both sitles, unless he has declared banijue ouverte t. e., that he holds all money slaked. At Tranty Croft the bauk w lor the lixed amount of JL'lOtl. Sir William (iordou Cumming seema to have beeu playing rattier higher than anyone else; the attention of the banker and crouwr would naturally have been called to the amount that ho was btakiug on each coup, consequently consequent-ly the idea of his having been aoin even once, much less several times, to have added i'lu to a stake of Ki without either bauker or croupier seeing this is deemed absurd. I do not , know Sir Wi'liam, He may ' be the most dishonest of men lor , all that I am aware. All that i say is. tnat men who l;ve passed ur perhaps, as you would sav wasted) yt trs of then lives at baccarat, hold that the evidence on which hrt was found guilty of cheat - ing at Tranby droft on two occasion-was occasion-was uiteriy "inconclusive, against, lii fact that mother banker nor croupier, nor any of the punters accustomed to, the game, perceived anything wrong in 1 his mode of play. If lie cheated tho ! it is prusuuied tnat he cheated before ; and yet, noi only did no one except the i Wilson family see him cheat then, bir j co ouo ever '(.eenis to have seen him cheat before. |