| Show in the famous baccarat case THE LADIES eissed when the jury returned Ee turned its verdict lord Cole ridges able summary LONDON june 8 the prine of wales was not present this morning when the court trying the baccarat scandal case convened tho lord chief justice had hardly taken his seat when general owen stepped to the front ot tho bench hia bacu facu pale and hia voice husky and said my jorj I 1 haye to aak your protection yesterday sir edward clarke thought proper to here the general sir edward clarke sprang to his feet interrupted general williama aud exclaimed 1 I aak your lordship to interfere and that general williams should not be allowed to make a statement ag he has not the privilege doing BO to this general williams hotly replied 1 I was accused of an abominable charge then the lord clinef justice interfered baying 1 do nui remember the expression but I 1 do nut think you can be allowed to speak but general williams persisted in being heard remarking angrily we were of an innocent man this statement was made without any evidence being brought forward for lord coleridge again interrupted the general by considerable warmth 1 I cannot hear any statement from you and immediately commenced his summing up while general williams retired frowning and greata gre discontented to his beai the chief justice aard that if the jury found the defendants had spoken the truth their verdict should be fur but if the jury thought abo charged they made w ere net true and that sir william gordon gumming did not do anything while playing baccarat ut tranby brott in last then their yer dici must be for the plaintiff chief justice analyzed at length evidence given by alie plain tilt which evidence he said was well worthy of during another portion of his summing up lord coleridge said the prince of wales at tranby croft waa to explain lycett greena objection to creating a disturbance in the baccarat room or elsewhere by calling attention to tho actions which he objected to on the part of sir william gordon gumming lord coleridge callad the attention of the jury to one particular observation which was made in behalf of the plaintiff in the of tho ciol it was 10 the collect that there waa more in the case than appeared on the surface against this the lord chief justice remarked 1 moat emphatically pro leat that the jury has nothing to do with things which are nut on the surface you have to confine yourself to tha aingie issue and what you heard and what haa been prayed curing the trial when lord coleridge hail proceeded thua far with his charge to the jury the hour of noon had arrived and llie court waa as usual adjourned for luncheon when the chis justice defined the law of libel ab different from the law of slander and when he gave special in with regard to the amount at damages which the jury could aaness if chev ao desired in event they found the case for plaintiff it waa considered lord instructions decidedly favored bil william gordon gumming but the chief justice analyzed the evidence ot the aud that of general williams and the of walea and lord coventry it was judged this was in effect an ement of the evidence in this condition lord coleridge said sir gumming did not come there to make a fortune and that bis character would be cleared by tho jury in awarding him should the evidence warrant il a small amount of damages lord coleridge also described at length the high fuai tiou aud brave career of sir william gordon gumming baying that the latter went to tranby croft as an honored gleat and if I 1 might be permitted to eay so as a sort of gleat of whom the hob might be inferring to the princess of wales in connection with the case lord coleridge baid people may say what they like but they are all very much pleased to have such greats as the princess of vales then as to the position of ahe prince of wales aud as to the desire bior secrecy by the party at at tranby croft was it not natural that with such monarchial institutions aa ours such wish should have exi Bled when the case was finally given the jury everybody evidently seemed relieved from the lime the jury retired upon the verdict until they returned to the court room only minutes elapsed showing that apparently they were of one opinion ab to the merits of the case when the clerk of the court suddenly announced atie jury ready to report was a movement of surprise throughout the audience andi ence the short ab apace of the jury being regarded reg aided as decidedly unfavorably to the body may bo said to have been in a breathless state when the jury entered their box looking rather frightened and very nervous the announcement that the verdict was for the was received with slight hiding from the galleries where the ladies congre gated and upon the part of some of those in ane body of the court who were in sympathy with the plain tiu the court had bome difficulty fur acme in suppressing these marks cf principally feminine disapprobation of the verdict they ceru however eventually suppressed and the court adjourned jour ned hat S LONDON june 9 thu daily news cor respondent at addesa soya the jewish emigration is increasing there to the uncertainty of the governments intention the financial insecurity is great the public credit is so undermined that alie finance minister vis has become alarmed and promised to ameliorate amele orate the condition of the jews buttee latter places no confidence in the promise Seye Bleta aidi june 9 joun braag ley ex was arraigned this ca orning on seventeen separate ands c mental charging him with loaning money as a public officer deriving gain from deposits of public money aad converting public money to hia own use he pleaded guilty to every count two weeks from today way set for bearing the evidence when the court will pronounce sentence according to its weight france it the grids fair PARIS june 9 at a cabinet council held today it was decided to ask parliament for a credit necessary to enable france to 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