The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-07-26 00:00:00

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THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

The trial was resumedon Monday morning, the fifty-
seventh day, with the case on the part of the defence.
The interest in the trial is F till sustained. Eleven
o'clock WIWI the time appointed for the sitting of the
Court, but aa early an half-past nine o'clock persona
began to assemble in Westmin.ter Hall, and by the
appointed time the Court and avenues were crowded.
Our space precludes us from giving more than the
following condensed account of the proceedings:—

Mr. Hawkins said there were some letters of the
corresponth roe of Sir James and Lady Tlchborne
which he delOred to put in, copies of which had been
furnished to Dr. Kenealy. The learned tmunsel aleo
put in • letter from Mr Spofforth to Mr. CaLor, dated
Feb. 13. 1871.

Mr. G. E. Bewlay, of the War Office, gave evidence
that a record WM kept at the War Office of everything
concerning the Carabineere on the first of each month.
Witneee had made an abstract of all the information
contained in it for Mr. Holmee, in whoee hands it was
deposited.
The document was put in.
A letter from Mr. Spofforth to Mr. Catur wee next
pot in by Mr. Hawkins.
Upon Maeter Cockburn proceeding to read the
letter,
The Foreman of the Jury stated that one of the
jurore, feeling very faint, deeired to leave the court.
rho application was at once acceded to, and the
juror, who apueisred to be wrionely affected by the in.
tense heat of the crowded court, left the heated atmos-
phere for the c roler air of the outer hall ; and the pro-
ceedings a ere, f courie, interrupted.
After an interval of nearly twenty minutes,

The Lord Chief Justice, addressing the jury, said—
The gentleman who felt ill I. desirous of coming in
again and going am with the ewe, hut two or three
medical men who happened to be near have seen him.
He has tad a very bad fainting fit—l am happy to Pay
that it is cnly a fainting fit—and the medical men say
he ought not to attempt to go on again to day. I am
sorry that you hare mut been brought here to day to no
purieme hut I think, perhaps, that on the whole it
would be better to give him a full opportunity of com-
pletely reviving. It seems tat be is Puhject to them,
tainting fits, and if we attempt to go on again today,
we may have to have another adjournment.

Mr. Hawkins: I should feel that, my lord—certainly
that would be the more advisable and more prudent
course to adopt under the circumstances.
The Lord Chief Justice : I know how painful it is
when counsel, who are ready to go on, are compelled to
have the case ajourned for another day; hut at the
Paine time I fear that we should do no good, because,
if we a•tempted to go on we might be subjected to •
further adjournment.

Dr. Ktnealy : It was painfully evident, my lord,
from the appearance of the gentleman's face when he
left the court that he wee enduring great suffrring.
The Lord Chief Justice: He is desirous of returning
and going on again, but the doctors ray that he had
better not.

Mr. Hawkins: Might I venture to inquire, my lord,
whether it would be poseible, during the present ex-
treme heat of the weather, to adopt any course by
means ef which more air could be introduced into the
court?

Mr. Frayling (clerk to the Lord Chief Justice): All
the windows are open and all the doors a-e open too.
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The Lord Chief Justice We cannot limit the num.
hers in attendance in court, and the air is rapidly con.
mimed where there are no many people inhaling it.
However, it Feerns that we cannot do anything more
to day.

At this moment Mr. Justice Lush entered the court,
and the Lord Chief Justice explained to him what had
occurred.

The Lori Chief Justice (addresaing M. Hawkins) •
I suppose you have completed your case.

Mr. Hawkinn : With the exception of one document,
which Mr. Holmes hoe to produce, and which would
have been put in thin morning in due course, but for
the inmate of the juror.
The Court then adjourned until the following
morning.

The further hearing of this case was reeumed on
Tueeday morning.
The Lord Chief Judith, addressing the jurymen who
feinted on If .n :ay, ke,el-1 am glad to see you here, ; I
hope you are tutter.
- - -•- • -• • • -

The Juryman : Ye., my lord. It was owing to the host; I
am very sorry to have been the .1310 of the day's del.y. I
think I shall be able to continue now.
Mr. Hawkins then completed handing In formal evidence
for the pro.ecntion, Including the picking up of the long-
boat of the Betio, the mtsepelling In the correspondence,
nod ton tr... 0 enemy of /Veer'. French letter.. The language
bears the mark of having been that of • person who had
moved in
.rood society, and had learned the language from

This concluded the whole of the evidence for the prawn.
Om.

Mr. %enmity then raised the technical objection he made
at the commencement of the trial to the juriaillctlon of the
Court, an 1. althongh It vrai overruled then, he felt botiLd
to renew It now. The objection was, that as one of
the counts was for perjury committed In London,
there was no power to try It in Middlesex. His second point
was that the Court of Common Pleas had no jurisdiction to
administer an oath tn the Middlesex Seedons House.
The lath Ells iheth. chap. 12, provides that all Issues should
be trie 1 in Westminster Hall. llist was cenarrned by the
riatutes of Georve Ist and lad. and by the tat of (hawse 4th.
In c.msequet coot the 1.-Ard Chief Justice of the Queen'.
Bench not having a Court to try causes in Westintrister 11*11,
p. rot AS{,.l2 was given to him to try elsewhere, clearly show-
ing that the law had been that Middlesex causal could only
ho trial in ,vestmluoterliii. No amount of consent conld
do away el h the foundation upon which the Court could
act

The 0-brt h-id that the tooth had jorisdiction to try the
p•rjory c monitted in London In Middlesex, the venue hav-
ing been • ernove Into Middlesex for trial. With regard to
the second voila, the parties contented to adjourn to the
MI 'Otero.. Cornice. Houre, and that made the proceeding.
I,gal If they •ere otherwise illegal ; but the Court thought
the adjournment by consent cured what otherwise might
have here an tar,.

Mc K.nenly requested permindon to remove hls wlg before
addr,sing thM jury, which was conceded, and It was taken
off accordingly.

Mr. K., ml; Gentlemen cf the jary,--I think you are
Intl bted to my met sincere and ruspectful thenks for the
ext. ton, of time which you have procured for ins in this
coon. U tel it n. t been for that delay, I should have been
quite unable to do any LIMA( like justice to the defendant.
My I arned friends have served a seven years' apprenticeship
to this case. They were introduced to it in the year 1887,
and they have bad it at thmr fingers' end from that, date up
till the present time. We have now ',rived at the ni,drile
stage of e eta nly the most important private proarention ever
tried In Westminster Had, and one not only the mod im-
portant, but toe most diffl nit to meet. In ordinary cases •
defendants cow set has to meet one, or two, or three, or, at
the most, hall a.dozen twins ; but here, although there are
hot 20 easlgnmenta of perja-y, there are no fewer than
2000 allegations of lalseh od, which are to tit met
o the part of this defendant. This case—of such
great Importance and of this serious nature—seems to me
to beset:ay great serious tragedy hat my learned friend, whose
powera of humour we all know and admit, has endeavoured to
convert it Into a farce. instead of directing your minds in
a grave and serious way to the Issues before you, he has
put before you all the comical features of the can.. He has
Intu.duced many Hoganhian interludes and epteodea into
this trial ; he is very humorons, but I do not like comedy
and farce lutroeuerd into tenons and grey* matters. These
mats are noerved for the Queen's countel, but he has intro-
duced to these seat, the Queen's Jolter (sensation) much to
my shame and regret. I am sure, however, that you will
look at Chia case lu the merlon. way in whirl. It ougot to be
looked at. This is a cam that has attrectad the attention of
the greater pert of the civilized world. Wherever the
Kosloth language Is see ken the unlike and the achievements
of the deleuMmt in his real or his assumed character
have been for years the subject& of Maculation. A vast
number of per•ons regard him as • eon of wandming
Yaw, and repeating that marvellous story of the Jeselt
Rodin, who entered into. conaptracy to deprive a tangly
Who bad owned It for centuries of a property worth a million

of money. Again, a vast number of persons say he is a low
vulva butcher out of Wept:deg, and who conceived the
notion of ousting the real heir to the Tiohborne estates.
:Some think him a person of great courage and craft, ane of
such &Miley tufo seduce hundreds and thonsands into the be-
lief that he is the real man, And in Ole coellicting state of
trends you will fine it • Mincer task to come to • right co te
cl ti Ten could not have come let. that xw • t bout I, et r
ml' is being thinned with some amount of prejudice as to this
ceee-4 Is impossible hut that It should be ao—htit I em •
bound to say I never knew twelve men more aide to de
complete and perfeetpuitlce. Ido not mean to nether
yiio—
I am above so base and mean an art; hut 1 mast say tee vi,
men never could lace paid so much attention with the
obvious desire to do their duty fairly and hetiestly, d
therefore your verdict will be received by your fellow-
countrymen an • verdi,t given without "fun?, favour, or
affection.. It la roe of the unhappy incidents of
this case that the rights of the defendant have be. n
attempted to be deetroyi d by Immune the most vitn•
watt.. and the moat calculated to excite prejudice
agatiist him. The caw was introduced at the last trial
In language of the most violent deveriptien. The defendant
was called by the Attorney General a ronapirator, a per'
juror, a slenderer, and a • Hein ; and my learned friend whet
said he represented the Attorney-General, said Gilt he
chwried the defeetiant "with as biome and feul a crime vs
Justice ever raised her arm to strike." It is now to noe,
and I hope new to this country, and certainly I hope this
I. the last occasion in which a prosecution will over in.
trochee, a rue by the abuse •ud slander of the aciinied. If
he be guilty let him be so proved, but do net let the
pusinna of juries he excited against • prisoner by lan-
guage of this strange and cruel character. Some of
you hove provably attended criminal tr.., hut did
you ever hear a Gonne., %Moe a marl through every
mood and tense In the English language, Metes I of
catmle, moderately, mei jthlicleuely laying the matter be-
fore the jury, and allowirg them to corm to their conclusion?
run sure yell will not be led away by language of that de-
Beription. There in not one of us who may not be sold to be
on our trial, whether it be the counsel or the jury. lam con-
fident that you will approach this question its if "It were •
sheet of blank paper ; " and that you will be prepared
to receive the impressions conveyed by the evidence, in-
stead of those conveyed by speeches, by gestures, mei by
sarcasms. I do n. t seek to hide horn you that thin case
will be of long duration, but I entertain high hopes that
the cause I represent will finally triumph. I am ready
to admit that you would be more than human if you
were not impressed by the strong body of te.timony pre-
sented to you by my learned friends. But in no way do I
shrink from meeting it, nor am I intimidated by the twit,
however arduous it may lie, that I have to perform. I also
have a strong anti powerful body of teettmorty. I have my
hundreds of witnesees—and they are coming here, not for
money, not for hundreds and thousands of pounds, hilt they
are volunteers not paid by anybody, not got hold of by
detecilves end attorneys—end they will come here on behalf
of the defendant. They are coming forward mainly atethar
own expense, because they believe that he lithe teat and true
Sir Roger Tichborne, notwithstanding the evidence that has
been adduced before you. As regards these wituesses. I
Invite my learned friend louse all his arts and eccomplish.
ments, but I tell him Ito not dread the result for any of
my eminence. I do not charge the two hundred witnesses
who have appeared here with perjery ; on the contrary, I
believe many of them honestly believed they were swarming
what is true. The case is at present enveloped in Cloud and
darkness. People are constantly remarkieg, "What do you
say of the Claimant now?" Bat I hope to be able to dispel
the doubts, and expel the darknesc and I entertain the
full conviction that whatever. indieldually or collictlvely,
you may now think, you will give full force to the evidenee
laid before you. I would remind you of a case
' mentioned by Sir Matthew Hale, where a man wan charge
with murder against • person against whom he entertained
• strong and violent hatred. The man disappeared. Report
ascribed the murder to the ether man, and prejudice was so
strong, though the dead body was not found, that the man
was brought to trial and executed for the murder. Within
twelve months the real man, who was supp•ised to have
been the murderer, came forth. Gentlemen, there is
an argument which I have heard used by persens 113
this case who have made up their minds, as it were, to
he unimpeached. They say even if it were so, let thing.
remain as they are. It is better that this young lad
who represents the Tichborne femily should have the estates
than that they should go to • man like the def-ndant. "As.
miming him to he Roger Tichbonie," it was said, "he bad
lived the life of a vagabond and a wanderer, and why
should existing circumstances he disturbed? as everythteg
that had happened had been brought about by himself. if
has made his bed, and so let him lie upou it" That was said
by persons of some jedgment. But I am sure such a con
Mderation will not for • moment bear upon your minds
any degree. You are trying the queetion of absolute right,
and I am sure none of you nave concealed from yourselve
the fact that, whilst you are trying whether the defendant
has committed priory, you we scarcely trying whether he Is
entitled to hie anceoral estates. No one can doubt for • me.
meat that if the defendant goes forth from here triumphant
with your verdict, the estate. cannot Linger he withheld
from him. Your verdict will go far t muds deciding
. whether he is to possess the estates, which are now worth a
retell'n of money. Theeel ire, being the question of ente-
nte+ right which le now In lag tried, you will ask yourselves
whether this is the man, elthoutah he may not be entttled to
eynipethy or re•pect. I hope my clieet wilt 10igive we, but
1 cannot !nip saying that, without entering into the ques-
tion whether his career has been such as old be con-
sidered honourable, we have to co, slier whether or rot he
Is tee man he represents himself to be, without going
for a moment Into the question of expedieney. Right—
and right alone—will be 30u1 guiding star; and you will
reit allow to weigh in the halate e of emir understand-
ings those things ehich have been put forth for the purpose
of prejudicing him. Gentlemen, I am sure I need herdly
have &wrested these lent remarks to you, because I am
speaking in the Intl of law end order, where every mates
right to his estate is recrignieed as clearly as the right cm the
Sovereign to the throne. You will cousider, gentlemen, that
you have nothing whatever to do with malty id the quo.
limit pit forward by the other side—but will look items
it solely as • quetUen of hie right and title to the estates.
G-ntl.m n, another of the arguments that has been used,
and sill be used, by my le meted friend in this case, is—la it
poulltle to believe that rui English gentleman, the representa-
tive of a family that was in Itegland before the Norman con-
quest, end w ho was heir to brie and mittense estates wilt h
he might have hail when he came hack to Ei,gi,nd—io it
penilee to believe teat he e • iuld have led the life the delete-
dent has lel out lu Australia ?—that he would be Pealing
under • Wee name, and voluet..rily nobjecting him
self to all the in dignities of poverty Is that possible?
Gentlemer, you veld hear in the comae if my seeress of
misty in•tan es of that kind which have heppeeed re oar
own day, not one whit erotic atom more remarkable than Ia
thin case, or than ha been developed by this man Irons the
feat time you bear et him down to the present poled. In
Australia etrenge thing, are teeing in. A men cleans your
her., and you discover that at one time he hell a commis.
nin in the °eaten. V m enter • shop, and the man servieg
as a counterman you muluequently find to be • dieter rushee
graduate of one of our miveraltiere upori whom midortitue
has Wien, or who under the Impulse of some freak him
eventually corns to that degraded position. Gentlemen,
there In only one cnse which, as well as I remem-
ber. may be at all considered as somewhat of e
peraild to this. It was the !meted trial at her
ever known in the British empire until this trial
begat,. It was • cam called the Autienley ejectment rile,
and it was tried in Dublin, and cemmenced tin the Ilth o
November, 1749, and re rmliteted on the 05111 of the same
ti onte—a perto it 15 days. Terre are some ClrCUrn•taliCes
113 tile case which may be well borne In mlud while we are
trying thr- case. The ottani iff, Jame. Armes ey, was the un
doubted soil of Lord Hi-ethane and heir to the eerldem o•
Angie'-y. But Lord Bonham, efier Mem. them • death, foi meet
a connection with a female, who wanted to induce him to
marry and she so w irked upon his nand, that this youth
was expelled from tee house. and allowed be wander abed
the street., and when hts father died, his brothel/ carried him
on board • ship in Dublin, bound ter Africa, and s, Ii
him as • slave, in whim. capacity he en lured great miseries
and agonies until at the age of n his case was taken
up by a benevolent Scotch attorney. He brought hire .
to Englimd. By au accidental die Charge Of a gun ,
on the Themes this young man killed s rmebody, and
his nude. tee Earl of Anglesey, offered to pay £lO,OOO,
if be could be prosecuted to death and executed ler that
homicide. But he was tried-at the Old Batley and acquitted,
and subsequently brought his action for e jeetment in Dentin
against Lord Holder... Vorty or fiftgi witness.* were called
who swore that Lord Holtham never had a eon and that the
defendant was an Impostor. But the jury—one of the most
distinguished who ever sat in • cue—returned a verdict in .
his favour, and if ho had not died alertly afterwtode he
would have WWII tklt beceme the Earl of Ang...y. Gee.
Heinen, what has been dune le tt e tut century n ay be none
again. Human nature in the last century in unman mature
mull, and what was den, by the Earl of Anglesey nay no
done t --lay by the Arendells and the 'Towards. Matto yls
constantly repeaileg iteed, and hum, n nature, when vat
natal en are 'evolved, either from YiClorialesa or weakness,
will stick at nothing. Having referred to the former trial,
and sketched some chimmttances in connection with it an-I
its remelt, the learned Colloaci said the press almost unani-
monsly.alter He conclusion raised a howl over • fallen man,
yet that fallen man heti not lost one of his supporter..
The popular Instinct saw that this man was to be made the
scapegoat, and they had supported him by discus-
Moe and sunocriptions, and It was to them that
he was indebted for the means of support. The
learned counsel then referred to the long list of
faahlonebles that had been arrayed &Relent the defendant
The prosecution (eentinned the learned counsel) had been
°tinged to pat 200 witnesses into the box to prove this con-
spar&q, and he (the learned counsel) would have to meet
them by the same number to prevent himself from being
crushed by the overwhelming remark that the weight of
evidence waste favour of the prosecution

[Dr. Kenealy then proceeded with him speech until the
hour for adjournment, hut our limited space precludes us
from giving inure than the foregoing. }

Mr. %enmity, in resuming his address on Wednesday
morning, referred to the late Mr. H. pains, the tamale soli-
citor, who had recognised the &lent-MRS as the real Roger,
and meld that the allusion which the defendant made In a
letter he wrote from Australia to him about Miss Bellew In
Ireland an allusion widen was only known to Mr. Hopkins
and a select few of the family. cone. yet to his mind the idea
that be must be the man in represented himself to te.
hapoily for the de'endent, not only was Mr Hopkins dead
but Le:ly and Sir Jamas Tlchborne had also passed away, and
the del andant wu compelled to be silent, lie could ouly
hint that something took piece In regard to Mies Bellew
when the Bellew* visited the Tlchbornes In Paris.

Mr. [tawkine °Nerved that there was no evidence that
Mr. Hopkins rec :gutzed the person of the defend:wt.
The Lord Chief Justice : He ecknowledged him as Roger,
but not as regarded Miss Eellew or his person.

Mr. Ilawkion Up to the moment of his death he never re.
cognlz.d the defendant pergonally.

Mr. Kenosly was surprised at that statement si there was
no proof of It. Ile Wtu-, justified in asserting that something
wee known to the defendant about Mts. Bellew, which was
one of the testa submitted to him as to his Identity. The
defendant sta)ed with Mr. Honking at AhrWord, and was
tested ri) him hi every way, but the hand of ilmtiny was
against the defendant, because ad who first re...go]. Ai him
on his arrival in England had gibe to their graves. Adv.,rt
ling to the way In which the uelsodant was received by the
family, the learned counsel said that to expect the poeseaors
of is. meant ticent estates to give them hp without a struggle,
even If they were perfectly well Assured of the defendant'.
Identity was almost to expect greater magnanimity than warn
to be found In human nature. There were gloat and heroic
Instance. of self saortfice—lostahces of persons aeriurl lig
themselves of all they poesesse I in order to do what ens
right and proper ; but, ordlusaily speaking, very fere mom.
hers of the peer •go or the holders of lane estates, if their
father cam.. hack to hie, would see his appearance with shy
amount of joy, or yield up their estates to him without a
struggle.

lhe Lord Chief Justice 1 thought the whole estati- 4 were
settled, out thetti ha cis feuditut is uot Sic Roger they go to
the chl!il of Allred.

Mr . Renee.ly : Yee.
lhe Lord chtel Justice : But you are speaking of the po,
season of the elltst.ll. the II 111111ne 411 Only in postoseloo
for the benefit of the heir.

Mr. ((Rhealy : I was wrong In speaking of the posseuors.
Tee Lord Chief Justice : But you have repeated it over
and over loath, and .C111.1.i to the posseseore the str, natal
motive, to resat the chant of the defendant, and to retain
the estates for themselves. If lam wrung, pray put me
rla ht.

Mr. Kenealy : It ls I who mu wrong. What I mean Is
that It inquires a great amount of magnanimity on the part
of the trustees or possessors of the estates sor the child to
surrender them without a violent and terrible struggle
Perham the trustees may bond fide believe that the oefend-
ent Is uot the real Roger, ifuL cannot help thinking that
there are others Interested in the case who entertain dif-
ferent views. The learned counsel then accounted for the
delendruft'e unwillingness to see his relative., which hal
hems so much commented upur. In the first place, his
mother enjoined him not Si, Tait any member of the
family uutfl he had seen her, and afterwards she
was oppond to his having any Intern or.. with
them, ohe, no doubt, had strong remove for that,
but her mouth was now closed. The rs the defend-
ant on coming home was overwhelmed by strong feelings of
shame, humiliation, sorrow, and sell-abatement. Re was •
man of most remarkable sensitiveness, aid that was the
reason why he abandoned civilisation elm biotin° • sort of
semi-savage. Therefore it was not unreasonable to nippers
he returned full of shame at ha past c reer, ano 'Deana nom
pen suing hunted? before any relatives vi om b. formerly
well knew. Al to the evidence he should produce, he said
thst is would by its overwhelming nature convince them bes
youd all pmaiblllty of reasonable doubt, notnithaten ding
the powerful case en the other sfde, that the defendant was
Roger Tichborne if tiny And in that minds such limb as

the peculiarity in the thumb, the brown mark on the aide,
and other matters, which he should prove belonged to
Roger and also to the defendant, and squid by 00 Powd-
htlity belong to Arthur °doe, each of these facts ought to
weigh with them much more I bans heroin d witnesses from
Wapping, which In cons. engine of the great at ration in the
defendant's appearance unity spoke in, I heir in.presalon and
belief when they said he WAS Arthur Orton. lilt should so
happen, as he Confidently prayed and biped It might, tn.t the
jory • Iwo Id thif k Ci. cLent's identity w.a proved, never had
a vercidt pronounced hi the world elver] greater Atlafection
thee th.-Ir verdict in favour er the defendant would sive to
their country mee, not because they had any sympathy with
him, for iii, wild and t e•l'ess ci duct ha • deprived hint of
the fyrnpathy of riaht mud d people, but became, It erield
by one ef the greatest trinmohe of right or' r might ever
in en in Engler d. As everything en. ageinat hits at present
crushing time to the very earth, it would be a grand and
glorious trim] cf trial by jury—a triumph over the mists of
prejudice and peasion. seeing that he had teen looked upon
as • bugbear, a living and waiting mockery and impoAttire
.... After commenting on the forged letters alleged to have
horn written to the defendant, he referred to the eiscovery
and Lee of the pocket-hook bearing the defendant's mime,
which was found in Australia, and ought (amid the learned
counsel Ito have been restored to him. When a nelson I mind
and retained that which he knew belonged to anotner, he
Was guilty of felony.
The Lord Chief Justice: There must he the anima
.eureedi. But if a document is fur beloneing to. person
*hp IS under a criminal charge, he may surely reteiu It to
aid le providing his guilt wa.nemt being liable toe,, locum.
tidn of theft.
Mr Justme Lush : It is done every thy by the police.
Mr. Kenealy replied that as there was no charge against the
defen,tarit in it 435 when the book was found, the Pemon who
kept it in the hope of malting money by it was clear.y gutty
of felony. Whether the phrase, 'the receiver is as bad as
the thief," commended Itself to their minds in this Case It was
for them to ray. For hinieelf he did not think it was lawful
to use unlawful weapone—oelsoued daggers or polbotred
swords. If he were a member of a noble family ho would
have scorrodi to have resorted to such unworthy mane.
Noblesse oblige Ile woniel not have Wetted himself to the
level of the persons who offered the testimony. if he conld
not win by fair, honest, Ltd noble means, then he would be
content to lose he would never descend to baseness As to
the sealed document," he asked the jury not to believe Mr.
Ooeforo's story that lie destroyed it In 1858 or 1859. When
he was slaying eith the Flowdens, in Shropshire, is.
lord received a letter from his wife containing the remark-
able words, "I send you the interesting document." Mr.
Goeford was not able to explain what it was, air wit Mrs.
Orreford. It was possible Mr. Plowden said he must have
the document, and IT•sford salted his sire to send It.
Why on earth should Goldoni have destroyed the d
cu-
mont, elm* he preserved all the oth e r rubbish of Rigor's?
; There was, according to him, nothing dishotiourable In
' it, as Rdir,r only promised to bull a church it lie mar-
ried Ida cousin withm three yeare. . . As to Mr. Abel
Mr. M Allister coming over from Australia on receiving
£1 001, he said it was hut human nature that they arould
wish, if they could, to give some return for the money Cud
identify the defendant as Arthur Orion. Turuing to the
ph, tograuts of places known to Roger, he said the view of
I Cattle was net recognized by a brother officer, and that of
Knell., presented the hack of the building, to which a wing
had been added after Roger's visite, and was consequentfy
calculated to deceive. On the subject of the tattoo marks,
he said the story of the family was entirety an afterthought,
and that he should smash it into a thousand pieces. Ile
should call Bogle, the negro, one of those of whom it was
written—
Men faithful to death,

True as gold itself;
and he was confident they would think when he declared
that Roger was not tattooed that he w is the witness of truth.
. . . Us (the learned connsel) should prove that the real
Roger had a splotch on i 14 wrist and a twitch of the eye like
the detendant, and said that it looked rather queer that the
other side should he no 'tasteu, to prove that these
were peculiarities of Arthur Orton. With rompect to
the South American and Australian Commisaions, the
learned counsel said that nothing could be more foolish
or absurd, consi lering the miserable diseases under
which he was suffering and his sickness, than the de-
fendant undertaking to appear before them, although he
was perfectly stncere In his intention to go. lie then com-
mented on the letbars of the defendant to show there was
a great similarity iu etyle and exproision between them
and Roger's letters. On the eubject of the defendant's
forgetluinesa he i splained why he might have for-
gotten all he had learned in his youth. As to Greek
there was no evidence that Chatlllon taught him It indeed,
Chatillmo was more uf a servant than a tutor, and probahly
gave him very little instruction at all. Very few men could
remember anything in the rudimentary books by which they
were taught, and many could not even give the date of their
marriage or the birth of their children.

The .I,arned counsel c.ntieued his address until the hoer
for adjournment. [F.,r want of space we can oul) give the
foregoing coLdensed ac !mint