The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-11-21 00:00:00

flow did you know I no ?-14 the nervous twitching
ef his (ye, and by his face like the Tichbornea
lid he isonaantly twitch his eye as be was taking his
ghia.ef water r). - Yes, it wiui the that thing
•truiik in. about him.
" you veal( ct the volt( ?—Yes ; only he spoke
better li,lllih when he tit IA away.
lOU thought be eatne quite eccidentally ?—Quite so;
considereded he Genie ler a glare 0 water,
You hadn't • notion lie Was coming to ray a visit ?
No.
I dare say you were not told that Rouse had driven
him down to the corner (if your house, and told him to
conic in by himself ?—ilaughter).—No,
Old you know the he/308?-0h, yes.
And some of the little thing,' in the parlour? -Some
of the great things—(laughter).
What?—He asked me if I had the large pieture.
What was it? —A large oil painting of the Reformers.
lie asked me if I had not that picture, and I r•aiii,
What do you mean?' and he said, "The large oil
painting with meny lair.. on it." I said, "Yes."
Where was it ?—lianglng op in my rarlour.
Well?— I asked him to come In %nil look at It.
1/o)nu remb, r it. 00m.,,a vim
I/id p.uIIIIIICP with hire ?—No, I never had that plea.
sure—lieueliter).
Mr. ilimiAton, I xamined by Mr. Gillard-1 am
a pool-rate collector. In I Mil, and for some year. pr,
•lously, 1 was in tiro employ a Mr. lionkino.
grocer
and farmer. carrying on business in Poore. Whilst I
wen his assi.tarrt, 1 (aw Mr. Roger Charles t ichborce
several times.
Remembered the talk of Sir (1. Phillips being about
to mrign after the masion of 1851.
btir G. Phillips was colleague of Mr. H. Seymour.
Do you remember anything being done to provide a
deputation for another eandidete t—Yes ; I put my em-
ployer'. horse in the gig to convey him and Mr. Ald-
ridge to Upton.
Did you ace any gentlemen next day?--Yeo
Furor/lie, Mr. 8 Hussey, Mr. Whittle, Mr, Tom Itick•
man the elder, and Mr. Michael Carrel.
And your moat rl Yes ; be was another.
Who was Mr. Aldridge ?—Sir E. Doughyt's local
solicitor.
Did your master and Mr. Aldridge come back again?
Yr.; and the next day I Raw these gentlemen again.
What became of them I—My employer and Mr. Ald-
ridge went in the gig, and the others In • carriage to-
wards Upton.
Of thee persons who went towards Upton, is there
any one alive now ?—Not one.
Was Mr. It. C. Tiobborne at Upton, at that time? —I '
believe he was.
Y(iii had son hini, had you ?—No, not till afterwards. i
how came you to We him afterwards?— lie came to
our warehouse relaiive to some goods which had never
reached their destination. That was in October.
Did you go yesterday to the Waterloo Hotel to He if
you could recognise the elaimant ?—I did.
Were you able to do to ?—I was.
What do you say about him ; is he the same person,
or not ?lie is.
Was he aware you were coming to see him ?No; I '
took a letter from ti. i solicitors.
Did you tell atryleely you were going to see him ?—I
did not
The Jocgo— Did not Mr. Spear:lab know you were
going?
Witness—l went to the office and applied fur an inter-
view before bring put into the witness-box.
And you went straieht there ?—I .lid; in • cab.
What happened when you got there ?—After waiting
blallo tirue,—ten minutes—l was introduced into the
room I told the claimant triy huainess was to see if I
could recognise in him the Roger Tiehborne of 1852 and
18... a. lie ached me my name. I told him I had lived
many years with Mr. Hopkins, and said. "What Hop-
kins who rented the farm at Upton ?" and I said.
"Ye,"

What more pruned 7—He asked me where Mr. Hop-
kins was ; end I said he was dead. Ile then naked me
wh. to his eon John was, lie said, "I mean the one
with the black curly hair; him that used to acoomp-
any ine shooting.''
Did you remember John ?—l'erfectly ; and the denip-
lion was quite accurate.
Apart from what he said, could you recognise the
elsimant by Li, features 7--Yr. ; after a time. I had
!sin in his presence about five or ten minutes, and
when I spoke of my master's death and there was a our-
ii.d eapression, that enabled mo to recognise him at
01.00.
Crots•ezamined by the Attorney-General.
saw young Ilr 'f ichborrie, I think, bout three timel
In the shop.
How ninny times did you speak to Itim?—Twice.
Tien from October, until yesterday you never saw
him?-1 SAW hint in December, 1d.12, as well as lu
October.
then, December, likl2, was the last time that
you ever spoke to him until yesterday afternoon?-13

Irak
Ws that th,. kat time that you herd about your
minims I ear?-Mr. Aldridge called upon me a day or
tell pre v Mindy.
Wim it in ouneettur nee of what passed when you maw
him that you received the aubbenua on Idaturtley?-1
believe an.
Then Saturday Wit the first day that you received any
communication 'rem any on. 2-Yea.
When did you come up?-0n Monday.
Did you ere Mr. ripofforth on Mondsyl-I went
atr oglit to the office and was there about half an hour.
he esamined me as to what 1 knew.
Yesterday you SAW the cl.ituant at the Weeetloo
ilotel?-I did.
Wh• n •ou saw the claimant the Waterloo Flotel,who
Was Hier.? -The claimant and a afranger-a gentleman
elven theft never c. -.lc before.
Ti. parsed arLieh you have told .
us about Hookine and the With 011tly hair who
tied to go shouting with him 7-Yea.
I •uppoc• it etrurk you as remarkable that he
aliouid know that? -It clid not. After I had told ;
him that my late employer Was decd, it did not
surprise sue that he asked ate'. the MI.
It showed • notntihdo anqatinbintdo 7-To my mind
It showed that.
Where i.Johu Ilopkins now 7-At Chicago. where
the great firs was.
Mr. Hopkins is is he? -He hi.
You r•coguieed him, you may, after you had been
with him five or tan ruinutot ?-I
Is be very like whet ho was, or ix he altered at all?
-lie is tremendously altered. I never saw such an
alteration in niy life.
What, altered altogether, or merely got stouter ?-
He has grown very much stouter.
His noise used to be much straighter. When I Par
hill, OD Tacsday Ho U:(7 Ito have • more prominent
DOW.
it now goo, in, and it used to go out 7-Yee, I should
icy se.
Is any other part at all altered 7-1 saw the dimple oa I
his chin that I had seen b fore. Ilia voice is not the
same.
What is the dilference?-110 used to speak with a
foreign acc ot when I first knew him, and I have not
dimovered that new. .
Theo, there is a difference in his tone?-No more than
I 'tumid expect after an absence of 18 or 19 years. His
voice is more manly and deep.
There are alterations, then, besides the stoutness 7- ;
The alterations that are made In 18 or 19 years.
But I asked you whether there were alterations?-
Ye,..
Did you recognise him before your hail had much talk
with hiin 7-1 recognised him directly I told hint my
mut, r wart dead.
You said there was • peculiar look in his eyes 7-Yes;
directly I told him that, there was a very peculiar
twitching ; a glaring, • kind of light in his eye-a kind
of le maim twitching.
Del lie Will] affected when you mentioned the death?
-No, lie did not.
Meetly you mentioned tho death 'of your master
there was this nervous twlehing: Did It seem pro.
chic. .1 by the death of Mr. Hopkins 7-Yee.
A+ if he felt it?-Yes.
11,1 he look almost as Whe were overcome 7-oh, ne,
ree. at all-(laughter).
Did he take out I.is pocket-handkerchief 7-lie did
n .t. .-(r. newed laught r).
Itut ho was affeeted?-1 dare say ho was affected.
He looked up. and I discovered then the kind el thing
that Iliad seen in him before.
Was le. much at Upton in Wit and 1832 7-He was
often at Upton.
I suppose a great many people thereabout know him?
-Yea, mil Ulll.l almost.
He was a great aportman, woo lie not ?-11e was.
I. Upton 011 Poole Harbour 7-it lies at the top of
Poole 11/mirror.
Not quite at the foot 1-It is rather elevated ; It
leeks d„,,,ce upon tin harbour.
Was Mr. Moore his 10-rvent in laY2?-Yo.
Do you kn., Shoat' '-Very well.
has he not been briny, at Upton l&tely ?-Not that I
Mal aware of.
When .114 you la 4 see hint 7-When I canto from
Poole to Loudon. I wept straight to Victoria-street,
and I went into M. s•re. limier, Hose. and Norton's
office. There was a gentleman titling there, and the
moment lie turned round I said to him, "Your name
is Moore, and you rather was butler to bir FJward
lloughty ;" and her. plied that he was.
When did you We him before that ?-Not sinew I
saw him at Upton. runic time prior to 1832, with his
• the butler of Sir Edward Doughty.
Did Mir. Moore stay in the room at Menem Baxter,
lb e. and Norton'a ? -110 went away almost directly.
- I supple, you hel some talk with him about old
time, Very little. There was anather gentleman
Who Was the oth.r gentleman 7-Mr. Clench, and I
think tilers wag anoth,r gentleman -s stranger.
Who bi Mr. (leech ? -tie is a wittier.i who is sub-
reused. and who e•me up by the same train as I did
on MOW .y.
Where cl.e, he litre "-He lives at Poole.
D. lOU lelote n to know as • matter of fact when Sir
Ceorto Pliclige died 7-1 do not. I am not swam
whether he is deael or not ; I think he still alivo.
You don't know anythire alms, him 7- I do not.
When did he 1'0°1.7-After the
arosion of MIL
Who •ue .44 del him?-fleoree Woodruffe Franklin.
(Ti,.. wit.... le r, I, Lie lat an old-looking printed
What b. that? -His election address,
Th,. W 441. I an sure it has lived
an n0n..4 time for •u h a d0e,,.,,
The Lord Chief iiistice--IYhat does it say 7-Sir
George nays it is not his intenti,,n to offer himself for
reodeetion.
The Actorney-Central -1 dare say be di I all that in
proper form.
Hemumtned hy Mr. Scrjeant Rallantine 7-You have
been nip.' shout the eyes of Mr. Tichborne- Were
there matters connected with twitching of the eyes
which you noticed in him as a young man? -There
WI re.

Al.'" 10? •. sour jodgment goes, there are the
lalu I oin the n.ao of the pl.tintiff al you laW
him -
W.; h regard to the I,eculi•rity of the nose. kayo YOU
tu.o near enough te ti.e claim mt to are that ho hos
'rot ‘i:o a.m. accident? —I f ,ney ho hag.
The Court then adjourned to Monday.

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