The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-25 00:00:00

DR. KENELL.Y TO yR. CROSS.

Wrow thu Zuiiakau.)

Sim—l bare the honour to send you a pamphlet
pol•llsbed this day. entitled " THE TICHBORNE
JURY."
. . . .

I beg of you to read it with attention. You have tinny
duties and wany calls upon your tine, but I respectfully
sulblit there is not one more imperative or more important
than this.
One of the main arguments used by yourself and other
gentlenien of eminence before the public has been the
" Verdict of • Jury of Knxlishinen," and I am not under-
estimating it• general is eight end value.
Ile. John Wight in particular, emong other peroonages
In the Empire, believes that the Claimant was an impoater
because the jury in the trial at bar found him to be so.
And thou.ands, prohably, Milow Mr. Bright's footstep*
without at ail exercising their own judgment.
But I think I way fairly ask you end them, mai this
argument avail if the beets contained in this pamphlet are
true I . . . . .

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Here, you may say, how do 1 know them to be true
And if you were to my so, I shou'd not deny that the
question wag right under the circumetencea
May I suggest to you the following plain and simple
rewiring why, though the question is right, it is not con-
vincing I
In the first place, theft statements as to the jurymen
have been published to the world for • very considerahle
period-they began so long ago.. March, 1875. Sinai then
they Use never hems denied.
In the second place, you have seen and watched and
known me eines February. 1875, in my place in Paliament,
end I feel quite certain you do not think me • man capable
either of atm. Jog or eupporting a thing that is untrue.
Now I vouch for the truth of the conversation between
myself and Tichborne as it t. detailed in page 8.
With equal positivenese I declare my belief in the
veracity of the gentlemen who had the several interviews
with the members of the jury.
There is not In the world. I am certain, a men of more
truthfulness, or honour, than Ciptain Morrison.
I have known Mr. Lewingdon, Mr. Thomas, and Mr.
Catered', or a considerable time, and I am sure that they
are incapable of making any but the most reliable state-
menu. I believe all that tmy relate in these interviews;
and I believe it the no re because none of these jurors to
whom I have sent copies of the etatenuente, has, up to
this time, sent me any contradiction or correction. If
they had done so it would have been immediately mada
known.
These things being so, I need not acid that I am as sure
that these words pawed between them and the jurors,
which are detail!. d in the pamphlet, as if I had been
myself present at those various culminations and had
heard all that took place.
Therefore I do most earnestlybopel that you will consider
this pamphlet, and that YOU will weigh every line that it
contains; I ask you this not only for Tichhorne's sake,
but for your own and that of Speen&
On the filst of ILay, 1873, I received the letter, printed
in page 4, which refers to Mr. Richardson.
In the same month Mr. Esst„ ex-sheriff of London. •
strong supporter of your 0 were:neat, avers that he was
then informed by Mr. Pollock. of NS, Piccadilly, that
two of the jurors had openly stated to the ulna effect,
!het they had suds tip their minds within a week of the
tvginning of Ike trial to artaact the defendant a. being
raur (treas.
This appears in page 6.
I do not think L would be wrong if I were to invite you
to !ha Mr. Zest who these two jurymen were. I am
almost certain that the worthy ex-Merit/ will tell you.
Several statements to the mime edeet appear in the
sworn declarations of Mr. Harding, Mr. Newnan, ac., eke.,
In page 5.
It appears also, in this pamphlet, that Xc. Melting, the
foreman of the jury, owned to hewing seen a letter from
Mot Jury, the elder sister of Arthur Orton, which was
addressed by her to the claimant, beginning with the
words, "Dear Arthur." No such letter was in evidence
at the trial, and by what illegal means, If it was genuine,
it came into the hands of Dickies is not known.
There can be no greater crime thin for a prosecution to
communicate privately to • juror letters or things which
they dare not produce in open Court. Yet this they did,
if this statement be true. •
It appear., further, that the jurymen venue& promised
£6O extra if they found a proper tardier.
It appears ano that the judos, knew beforehand whet
their verdict WM to be, for Mr. Justice Mellor, immediately
the verdict was pronounced, deliberately opened his desk
and took out of it several sheets of foolscap paper, on
which his eentenee was written out at length, and read
that sentence, word for word, from those sheets. ThW I,
myself, and the whole Court saw him do. There wee not
the lout disguise about it
Do you not think, sir, that this is a matter which
requires some little explanation I—the more especially as
Antics Mellor's son was rewarded, very soon after the
trial, with a snug berth worth £1,500 a year, in the gift of
Sir A. Cockburn.
It appears, also, that none of the jury, but the foreman,
knew anything stout the censure pseud on myedr=
which was wee basis Of my dtabarment and ruin, What
have / done that this should bet My public career is
without stain. lied there been any blot opus it, Lard
Chelmsford would never have recommended me to the
queen as one of her Majesty e Counsel. Had I been a
shameless profligate, and had I bought • brother barrister's
wife from him for 1.600, alter I had been openly living
with her in adultery. I should now he Attorney-General
or Lord Justice; but not having considered the pleasantries
I am undone.
Pray, sir consider these things, and take into consulta-
tion Sir S. Northcote and ask hies what he thinks althorn!
for,! users you, if you do not, you will occupy& very dark
place in the future annals of England.
It appears, likewise, In this pamphlet, that in addition
to the letter of lira. Jury, before referred to, the jury had
copies presented to them of the speech of Sir John Cola
ri4i at the first trial, in which ten thousand false state-
mute were made, which permed as unointradieted and
true, because of the treacherous =duct of Tichborne's
counsel in that trial' conduct for which they ought all of
them, as I think, to have been disbarred for having aban-
doned, or betrayed, their client to the enemy.
I observe that use of them has bun made, and is, your
Solicitor-General, with a salary of SAWA • year. For
what has this reward been given! Millions ask this
question.
There wee a thm when I could not have accepted for an
incsane anvil:Me discreditable to Sir Harding' Gifrtot
But what cannot I believe when I see what pam.. before
my eyes—and when Coleridge for his forgeries is made a
peer and judge
Sir,.. you NOW now that what lead about the identity
of hgwayivina f;aulliteld, with the brothel•keeper and thief_,
Mina jury. was true, so, by • little enquiry, you can Ind
out, as Ithlnk, that all the statements in this pamphlet
are equally wel•fomided.
And if you investigate the character of Mrs. Madill/ter,
from the detectives In the case, you wi I ascertain that,
albeit she was no convicted Dios, she differed but little
from mina /my. She it was who produced the mutilated
books—which no Court hut Cockburn's would hame
received; sod on which the Judges commented to my
client's ruin.
. For thls she we. paid by the Treasury,.„ as she cantered,
! the sum of £l.OOl1--though I myself beleve that she got
double that amount for what she sworn.
She it was who was pursued. by her first husband with
a steel us, some time before Ms death, determined as he
was to kill her, for having found her with • mu,
search into this. Your detectives can tall you whethilairt
as tree.
We ereeteree it the triel. viethoe et bribed Lynn
eat ee Itaaw midis of • misled bob al vital wiled%

which angled to the various false inhumes whom your
rieht honourable predecessor at the Home Ofee—Mr.
Robert Low.—called; but IMP then—when lit, too late
—we have had a host of information—as we have had
about Mine. Hc,geepod, and the like, who swore this 112aa
00S of his wawa.
I have heard on authority which I cannot doubt, that
Mr. Gray, Q C., Solicitor to the Treamry during that
Villainous trial, died of grief, shame, and of • broken
heart because of the Minim that came to his knowledge;
but which he, aea law officer, was compelled to tolerate,
and even to sustain, at the bidding of hi, Waatall. He
bane from the first that Luie was "planted" on poor
Tiehborne by the authorities of Scotland Yard.
Sr. I adjure you by the living God. beim* whom you
shall have to appear, and unto whom you must answer, to
release this innocent man. You cannot believe me to be
a fanatic or fool. My whole life before the public proved
me to be a roan of truth, and I hopeoi man of same. I
swear to you, aa I believe in Heaven Itself, that I believe
this man to be Roger Tichhorne. It is impossible that for
ten long months of daily internam he could hove
tinned me. And do you think that Riven and Oaalow,
if he were a Wapping butcher, could not have smelled the
fact at every pore t Bicidulph swore be was du cousin;
Lady Radcliffe, like the Lord Chief Justice, was in
doubt; his mother, after two years' daily intercourse,
died, averring that he was Roger; his eldest son is &living
likeness of the Roger of 1164. Could you but connive
both, you would be convinced : and therefore it was that
Cockburn ordered him out of Court lest the jury should
lax Will you look at this chikl if I briog blot to You I
Will you look at him with the Chili daguerreotype in your
hand! If you would, you would releases his father then
and there. Colonel Norburr and Captain Sankey and
Major Cunliffe, three re Ane gentlemen and soldier, as
there are, swore he WU the man: and Sir Talbot
Constable told myself, that he was the true and veritable
son and heir. Are not them things that ought to outweigh
Coleridge speeches, and Pdtendreigh forgeries, and the
mutilated boolu, and the countiese I alsehoods that
appeared in the trial? And will not God ova% from you
• most terrible punishment if you continue wilfully blind
to all such astounding facts?
I am now approaching my sixtieth year, and I shall
probably not live much longer, for I feel that I am slowly
perishing of the poison that they gave me. Long and long
before that villainous trial was over, I told your own
Solicitor-General, in the robing room at Westminster, how
the enemy tried to trip me up day by day ii I walked
back from Westminster: so that I might he trampled
, down by the thousands who followed me, without their
knowning that I we. prostrate. Ask this gentlemen, and
he will tell you Do. And now, to this solemn moment, I
tell you that never yet have I known, even on this earth,
crime and villainy to trotter long-
Croke was one of the most flagitious Judgee—his
children came to utter ruin. The line of Jeffreys.
perished miserably. Jamee the First was • murderer—and
worse. The blood of Stuart is extinct. The Catlett are
gone, becauee of their crime.. So ma the Bourbons of
Francs, and Naples, and Spain. The Napolsona never can
rise again. The Tudors wasted became of the bloody
Henry. Where an the heirs of Scruggs, of Tresillan, of
Belknap / The grandson of Norbury murdered his own
father. You saw bow Leitrim fell because of his misdeed,.
Break one of the laws of nature, and You suffer- Do YOU
think that if you violate the laws of God, you will not
etiffer aloof

What bee Goa said
I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the
Iniquity of the fathers upon the third and fourth
generation.—Exodus xx., 5.
The father, have eaten • sour papa (that is, they have
committed sink and the children' teeth are set on edge.—
Jeremiah xxxl, 29,
The truth of this is demonstrated in the whole history
of mankind. You are now building up, as you suppose, a
family and a house, but if you lay the foundations in
blood, where will that House bet You have children, and
you love them. If you would not call down the curse and
vengeance of God upon their innocent heads, do justice to
Sir Roger Tichborne.
People say that your own wishes tend to release
Tichborne and to help him to hie estate., but that you fear
the result. You are in terror, and the Prince of Wales is in
terror, that if Sir linger were free, he would go about the
country, and detail his wrongs and indent's' ; and with
his wife and children at his side, would arouse such a
troe as might produce a Revolution end the downfall of
the Giselphic dynasty. I know now how this may be; but
I for one, ask, what is that to you I Piet Juseitia, rust
online Let justice be done, even though the heavens
fall, wee the saying of a great Paean philosopher. Why
should not you re-echo that majestic aphorism 1
Relates this man, and aid him to his estates, in the
name of all that is righteous. Da not mind Disraeli, or
Cairns, or Cockburn. Consult a wise and good man like
Sir Stafford Northcote. His honesty should outweieht
with you, the cunning and chicane of • hundred tricksters.
You and I remember the adulation heaped upon
Napoleon,ewhile be wits at the top of the tree You and
wet now with whet Ignominy and contempt bit grave is
holed. Bo will it be with him who is at present Chief
Minister of unhappy England. When his power has
passed, and only the !shadow of his career survives, with
what unspeakable shame shall we look bark upon the days
when the Queen adopted him for Minister I
And here, before I close, as! am on the subject of the
Tichhorne Jury, let me add this fact. It was perfectly
well known to all who were intimately concerned for this
gentleman, that there were at Inuit three of the jurors who
made overtures for money, during the trieL A gentle-
man whose letter, I have—formerly a Member of
Parliament for a great constituency, was the medium of
communication. Three or four days before the verdict, •
[Mabel of the Legislature, • violent Tory and friend of
your own, came to me at Gray's Inn in the afternoon, and
said, "I have this moment come from my bankers, and
got a hundred pound note, which I am going to take to
this man. It will not, of course, secure Tichbornts's
acquittal, but it will end in no verdict, and that will for
the present he nearly so good. I called to you on my
way to hear what you would may." I answered, "Good
Heavens I you must be mad. Do you ask me to sanction
bribery of a juryman What is there in my life that can
justify you for this! He looked crest-fallen and ashamed,
and he well might be. We had a long convenatioo ; I
showed him his folly, his criminality. I told him that
if by any chance it oozed out, as it might, he would be ex-
pelled, and justly, from Parliament—that be would be
disgraced and degraded for ever. Nothing could alter him.
He was resolved upon the course. Mr. Sheppard, one of
the jurors, had informed his wife that Tichborne s doom
was sealed. I felt for him. I said "Give me this money,
and let me have till tomorrow to consider." With great
difficulty I got the hundred pound note from him. He
seemed bent, however, to do it all hazards; but I thoeght
, a night's reflection on my words would do him good. In
the morning I sent him the note by one of my sons,
with • letter which I have no doubt he has, in which I
pointed out the Iniquity of endeerouring to pallute the
stream of justice, which even then, at the eleventh hour,
I thought—unwisely—would run clear.
Sir, I will give you, if you wish, the name of this
Senatoreind the name of his bankeewhoee books willthew
that he drew out the hundred pound note on that day, so
that you may have certain proof, if you doubt me, that
what I say is true.
And now, consider this.
111 bad acceded to this desire, there would have been
no verdict, The particular juror, who was ready to accept
the money, would have stood out to the last.
This would have been under all the circumstances so
grand and signal a triumph for me that! should have been
the very first man at the English bar, and no Ministry
would have been strong or bold enough to refuse me the
highest seat on the Judicial Bench.
But, as in the beginning. I positively refined to defend
Tichborne, 1110114 Lord Rivers, Mr. Onslow, and Hr.
Whalley consented to withdraw the petitions which they
had, signed by thousands of person.. praying that Parlia-
ment would pass a resolution, prohibiting Chief Justice
Cockburn from trying the cans; so in the end I refused to
sanction any mums which wag not consistent with honour,
and I prevented the bribery of that juryman, which would
have resulted as I think, in my own exaltation to the
highest professional, if not judical bonteire and rewards.
Yet who acted in this way, was expelled from the
bar; driven into poverty; covered with shame—as far aa
my enemies could accomplish it—and am still slandered,
vilified, and persecuted: when I fay, that for what I did
during the whole of that trial, I ought to have been weds
Lord Chancellor of England, and to have been decked and
dignified with all the honours that the State could give to
en honest man.
If you can point out to me in the whole history of
England, a man who acted faithful', as I did, and who
was repaid with ignominy and ruin. let me hear of him.
and I shall be filled with wonder. But as yet, I know him
sot. —I am, sir, your humble servant.
Whitillonday, 1878, E. V. KENEALY.