The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-05-30 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE CASE.

This extraordinary case is continued, and as yet gives
no sign of the c impletion of the elsluiant's evidence.
Williass Gould, fishermen, of Poole, has given eel. ri
dnaer. At the cad of 1852 of the beginiug of 1853 he 1
woe sith Roger Charles Tiehhorne for two months
tegeth.r. Tichborne was food of boating, fishing, and
shootmg, end witness used to go about with him most
days. On the 14 October, 18.7, he ascertained from Mr.
H. 11. Seymour that tho claimant was coming to Poole
by the Afternoon train. Met him and by his apocar-
-1111111 and voice coul Ire guise him any were. Witn.as
said "Hoe du you do, Mr. Tichberner and lie replied,
'how do you d Gould, after the few years I have been
gent?" In the evening the olaiusent picked out from
fi.ur models the kind of boat hs bought at Poole, and told
'bathe gave for it. He also mentioned drying the boat
by homing& truce of hay in it.
Now, bye yen any doubt about his being Roger
Ticliburne?—if he is not -tir Roger Tiebborne, it is the
wiry old devil himself. (laughter.)
In cross-examination he admi•ted writing • letter
to Mr. Peek • solicitor against the olAimant, saying " I
think I shall be so good it witness as tee infect will
have, both said he had not •seen Sir Roger then.
When the claim int visited my house he was • thin
man, and my wlle was thinner than he; now she. Is
much stouter than that g.ntleman. (laughter.) Si.
hair is the same colour, hut he never had so mush on
his lieryi as now. Doe% think he alp] t • amnia out
tie head when I knew hie. (Isu.di•er.) It woe all of
a "fuzz.' (laughter.) Ho talks better Roglish now
than he used to do. I recognised him by his eyes,
features, and his walk, which was peculiar, 'because he
used to bend bis left knee inwards.
Maria Gould—l knew Mr. Tichhorne about 1853.
*lien he used to come to my house to ask my husband
(last wituese) to go out boating and shooting with him.
After his return I recognised him in a carriage between
two other gentlemen. I knew his walk and features.
Cross-examined—l can swear he is Six Roger all over
the world.
Martha Legg, when Mrs. Fisher, said she lived at
l'oton when Mr. Tiobborne visited there before going
abroad. Was his laundress: When he returned I
went to see him at the London Hotel, Poole. I asked
bun ti describe the linen he used te wear. lie thought
a little, and then told me of a shirt with stags' beads
and II irns, and others blue, purl le, anl pink. Ile said
sem of the handkerchiefs had bulls' bead and some
dogs' heads upon them. All this was quite true. He
remembered getting into the mud, and sending ins his
trousers. He remembered also giving me a sovereign
to pay a bill which was less. I know he must be Rir
Roger, betiau-e he knew I was his old laundress, and
because he told me I was the woman who had an old
gentleman for • husband. (laughter.) But he's dead.
(laughter.) I also knew him by the eyes.
By the Soliator•Genersl-1 knew hews. Sir Roger,
because he sail lam not shined, which I am not.
(Ltughter.) I look the aame now as I did 20 years ago.
(Laughter.) It was not a C. 30101011 thing in those days,
as it now. for • gentleman to wear coloured cotton
ebirts, aad both he and I would be likely to remember
it. I *paid remember his fear by the hltiog of his eye-
brows when he smiled.
fire clams, it is expected, will last until the end of
JuLe, The leading counsel are said to be receiving 50
guineas a day.
A distant relative of the Tichborne family is under-
stood to have given the claimant £5,00) towards Pro-
secuting his claim.
The Morminp Roi says it is expected that considerable
sensation will be caused by the productioo of evidence,
in iupport of the claimant's ease, of a very delicate
emcee, with reference to a Was maitre alleged to have
eliakti for some years in the l'iohboree

RATIFICATION OF TUE WeerilgoTOS TRELTY.—The
Senate has ratified the Treaty concluded by the High
Joint Commission, by 50 votes against 12.
TOE MUaDtWIUO RODEIMAID.-111 the WOO of Agnes
Norman, °berg 11 at Lambeth poUce-court, with
mar.l, 1, the pros ,outing counsel aike I for her c ina•
mittal on the charge of murdering the child of lire.
Beer, that of Mrs. Taylor, that of Mrs Gardener, the
two children of Yrs. Miner, and the attempted
murler of the child Charles Parfitt. The case DOW
stands adjourned In order that the prisoner's counsel
may address the magistrate on her behalf.
AUDICULTULAL LABOURIDAV WAGIS.—The returns
obtained from time to time by the Poor Law Board
from Unions in every county of England, stating the
average weekly earnings of agricultural labouren chow
that iu most parts of the kingdom there had beema some
increase in wages in the course of the last few years.
The returns recently issued come dawn to Ili hummer,
1870. There are accounts from four Unions in Dorset.
shire. The wages in the Poole Union are stated at 124
to 15s • week, with bear in haytime an I harvest, or 64
• day to total abstaiiiers. The return from Wareham
and Purbeck is 8$ 61 to 10$, according to tho Demon of
tbe year, with a house anl potato ground, and feel,
and with wheat supplied at a reducied prieo. In Come
Union the wages are 9$ to 10s, with • Inmate and prden
rout free, and lu list some parts of the year, and wheat
supplied at 51 a bushel; In harvest time 20z a week
and beer. Tee Wiuiborno Board of Guardians object
to making • return; hut one is supplied by the Rev.
Can Glyn, an (4 qici, Cu adieu : the wages are stated
lis the return of toe first quarta of the year at 9i to
10s, with no other anomalies or emoluments; but the '
return for the last quarter states that fuel is brothilit
for the anon occasionally, and that some hold • quarter
of an acre of laud, from which they derive a profit of
about £2 • year. The return for the third quarter
states the wages at 9$ 61, with an allowance of beer at
harvest equivalent to about 1.1 ; aul task work in that
quarter is described as producing to a man 153 to 183
par tteek, the toted money earnings in that quarter
D'ind (apparently) averaged at 13s • week. Task work
Ii tint Union in other parts of the year is stated at
121 or U.. Tee stateumoug relate, not to carters and
shepherds, but ordinary labourers. If they have •
family able to help them, the return indioates that in
Wimhorne Union women may earn 4s • week, and
children under 16 24 to 4s. A. note in the return for
hat quarter of the year states that lads of 16 earn 61;
item 12 to 14, 4t or ss, and from 10 to 12, 2s 61. We
tod returns Irvin the North and West Bidiugs showing
ten's weirs at 12s to 15s or 174 in the winter half of
'to year, the amount rising in tho spring, and In
lisovent-same reaching for a few weeks to 20s or 244,
with stiowitoor ot food in sum, places worth Is • day.
A. srossise and one child are nearly equal to • man, aed
the cetera been Timm* Unless stake that at task week
ht harvest • loboarox, whit hie wife sod ono okild, Will
sus 'boat 10 104 week.