The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-06-20 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE BARONETCY.

The claimant was ~gain crossemamined on Monday
by the &hater-General. The inoidenta of Roger
Tichborne's life in Paris formed • subject upon which
the witness was again mush premed by the learned
counsel. There were several lively passages of arms.
Toe claimant alluded to the fact of Sir John Coleridge
having e brother in the Order of Jesuits, when the
learned counsel retorted that it would he oqite,enpnyh
Iva Mu& avumor for WS Own sine, SEISt be bed
highest regard, affection, and veneration for his
brother.

Oa Tuesday the claimant was questioned u to s sioton
which he said ho had put into his shoulder, and it
rulieved him a good dual from the spasms.
Weal spaams f—They were in the *hest, near the
heart. _

Spawns near tho heart for which you had a Beton
in the shoulder. Is that it I—l believe so.

Cues you recAlect why the seton wu closed up ?
Perhaps I can if you give me time to think.
Well, try, will you !—No, I can't recollect. It was
kept °pan several mouths. I can't tell who advised it's
baiuj shut up,
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Would it surprise you to leer that the real Roger
Cilarles Tichborne did not have a seton, but a sore in
his lulu kept open with peas and covered with silver,
and that the arm wit.trng., Lady Doughty closed it up?
—lt does not mired*e me to hear you say so.
It doei not 7—No because it is not so:

Then it is false 2LYea, it is.
Asked where his roams were at Stonyhurst collage.
he said on the le:: behind the quadrangle.
Was there more than one quadrangle?—What do you
moan by quadrangle 71
No, what did you meant—Mean
Yes, what did you meant—The staircase! mean, the
whole left wing of the house.
Do you, a Stony burst am, really moan to say you
don't know what • quadrangle lit—No answer.
What is a quadrangle 7—Part of • building of worse.
Yes; so Is door-poet. What is a quadrangle? You
were at Stonyhurst for three years.—l am not going to
answer such an insolent question he that,
The Judge—But you sated the Solicitor-General.
After a hood deal of fencing witness said he really
did not know what was meant by • quadrangle; and
he denied using the word until it wu put into his
mouth. The indistinct manner in whieh he uttered the
supposed wolf in the first 101t8003 rendered 111 w.
possible to decide, Us own counsel thinking that lie
used the word.
Tne Chief Justice—What do you mean by quadrangle
—what is your idea?
. . . . _

Wituesi—Part of tho building, my lord.
The Solieitor-Gerieral—What part—what sort of •
thing was it?
Witness (contemptuottaly)—" What sort of ebbing
was it ?"—you ought t bo ashamed of yourself going on
in this way about a trumpery thing which Is of no *on.
sequence whatever.
The Chief Ju.stice—Never mind about that; t.ll ml
what do mean by quadrangle?
Witness—Part of the building, my lord.
The Solicitor-General—What part—what sort of a
thing wu it?
Witness—l decline to answer the questiou.
The Judge—Why not answer?
Witness—He is only repeating the question for the
purpose of insulting me.
The Josigs—There is not the slightest ground for
such • suggestion, or for your aay.og it is either insolent
or Madan',
The ,Soltoitor-Goneral—Now, perhaps, 'you will tall
me what kind of a thing • quadrangle is?
Witness—l tell you I will not answer the question
any more.
What sort of • thing is it ?—No answer.
Whas is it mul, off—No answer.

iThTt

As to the course of instruction at Stonyhurt, he said
In learnt grammar, spelling. history, French, Latin,
Greek, and arithmetic.
Con you road Liebrew l—Not a word. I studied it
for some time.

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What is the first letter of the alphabett—l have no
recelleetim.

Ily own acquaintance with fiebrew ii vary Hashed,
bat I will ask you whether you did not go u far in the
language u to ascertain that it Is read from right to
left Mate 4 of from left to right I—l lout know.
You learnt Greek 7—Yes. a portion.
Did you go as kr as the alphabet 7-1 don't re-
member. -

If you did not go aa far u the alphabet, excuse me
saying you did not go very fax?—{laughter). I was not
prepared for it when I went.
Does • single Greek word linger in your memory ?
Not one of any deoctriptioo—(laughter).
Did you get ea far u the Greek article I—l have no

Can't you give us "and" in Greek —No. I have
lost In entirely.
Then you said that you learnt Latin. Did you get
on better in Latin?—! think I got on further in Latin.
Could you read me • line in Lstin now ?—I aa quite
certain I (amid not.

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How far did you get ?-4 cannot remember.
Did you ever read Virgil 7—l cannot readmit.
Dirl you ever dos little hit of "Clew ?'—l don't re-
m tuber.

—I; (Idler& Liu writer or i Greek ?—I don't re-
ntember—(langhter). I think it is Greek—(grest
letlghter).

—.la-si-a-ti; that waa the Stwayharst edition—(laughter).
Dtd you ever hear of & moustram f—l have no re-
oollectioa.

should you be surprised to and that Roger Charles
Tichborn, construed a good deal in Cesar easily at •
menstram, which is a mouthly examinationl—l should
not be at all surprised.
Do you recollect a menstrum now ?—Yee.
Do you moolleet whether it was in Latin or Greek
you construed Crew at a menstrual t—l don't recollect.
What do you say to " r—l have no recoilise.
lion ot "Virgil."

What is " Virgil"—• general or • statesman,or what?
—I his no recollection.
Wu he • Greek or a Latin writer ?—I don't re-
coil .

Did he write verses or prosel—l don't reeolleol•
Did you ever see It before (handing I book to the
witaess)t—l don't trent to look at it el