The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-16 00:00:00

THE TICHRORRI TRIAL.

Tusaday's promedings eommeseed with • brief bot
rather bitter dissamion raised by e immolates no the
part of the defence that the Treasury Solicitor had
dr:mated that the impetuses of witnesses for the dolmas
whose names hod out been delivered within th. time
appointed for the purpose would aot ba pa& But sa
It turned out—though it was at first denied—that this
wee in accordance with distinct owls* eveu to the
attorney for the defence, in pumices. of a conditi.n
the •rrengement which the Gran bad masidered rear
souab:• and just, the Court ictimear d that they saw ee
ground wbstev,r for eomplaint. The orose-,zamina-
i lion of Bogle was th• a resumed and lasted ail day, said
,cossy Very remarkable thing. Were elicited, of which
setting has ever yet been heard.... for inthuthe, that
the defesdant—who swore at the former trial that he
bad bad • ring when saved horn the wreck, bearing,
oat the Tichborne meet, but his inidari—had Poll Or
pawned it at Melbourne, and that he had never WOW
it dorm; had at Sydney—many hundred. of reties
from Melbourne—a gold ring, which be had bad
male there, aid which bore the Tichborn• creet--•
hand holding a star—though at the former trial be
said it ass a "birds heed with wings." pu,tbm
It was elicited that the defendant tald Bogle he bad
been to Melboerne three or four per. shoe th.Ucu. be
said he bad firit lauded there from the wreek—s theta.
meet never before made, either by the &deadest is
his nnmeiracui examinatious, or by Bogle himself when
examined yesterday. H. further stated that, when he
was seat fee by the defendant down to Afresh:red—a
few days after his arrival in this °Amery—arid got
Into Tickberne-house. the defendant told him to buttes
whether the pictures there were the mine as who.
Bogle was there before, and that Bogie accordingly did
hi. beat to aotioe 1b...; and though, as he said, he
could tell the defendant very little about them, he ad-
mitted that he bath told him something, and that be
had meittioued some alterations he had dimmed in
going over the house. It was also elicited that Bogle,
when at ilabberne saw Mrs. Greenwooe, oat of Roger's
favourite musing, who lives very nest; sad that though
she. asked whether the defendant wee at &treater('
(where he was etayine). Bolas did not tell hers and he
further admitted tb.t though she had mid, ....outing
him to be Roger, that she should be very glad to We
him, and sent a kind memage to him to that tffeet„
which Bogle & livered, defeedent did not go, but
weut off to town with Bogle Is further appmred that
soon afterwards the tlef.ndant tad Ctrter mai breams,
two of Rogers servants, staying with him, as well as
various other persons, well able to give him the fullest
information to Roger and the family, lueladrag
Belmiet and the Dowager bere-11. Lastly, it appeared
that one of Ofton'a einem had been to are tte debut.
dent while he was living at Croydon.
Bogie, whose erees-examicaMem had been so pro
-
treated, was on Wedseeday very slightly re-•thatimed.
lie said, as he bad said yesterday, that the defendant
had never told him how he ...toped from the wreck, and
that he had never soled him.

A woman who had heed at Chariton, near Tiohborne,
: was sailed to prove tbat one day in the autumn of 1852
she law Mies Doughty and Roger walkiag together doers
to what she called a "grotto," but whirl) turned out to
bv Amply a walk by tie side at a public, footway, with
mottle sows In it; and front the letters of Roger it does
Lot appear that he was at Tiohborne in the autumn el
that year, while the family wittasses and Mr. and Um.
Gorford have sworn th,t be was 130 e. Further, abs
swore positively that 'ha saw tSiiin riding tvetbsr on •
rood near Tiehhorne Is the July of "1850 or LOU'
She was quite certain It was owe of thou' jets, but the
Lord Chief Justin." printed out that the letters showed
Roger was not at Tiebborne in the summer a faiths, et
those years. This witrees had net sees the delendast
Nil yesterday, though, she mid. Err roll. snip was
taken IGLOO weeks ago, and sotto. had been given of her
elnlilllloo.

The next wither was Mr. Hoolistso, of Poole, whit
Mated that to 1851 he was in It. erop:oy of oast
Hopkins, • potter and farmer of that place, who
rented Upton farm. He bed kno an Mr. Roger•
TieLhorrie, who wes In the imetit of buying thMg• at thee
shop. Hs loom him well. end saw him now in swirl.
That's the mane Sir (re,teating to the defesdaot). Hl*
eloworar always took. part in alp polecats of Pocks,
and to remembered some gentleman waittag upon
him.
Mr. Hawkins ot j.oted that unless the witness was with
them it was mere heszeay.
The vitae'e saki he 01 not go with them, nor we.
present. H. clad OUL know that there was a depute
VSO. He tont out hie employer and anothar person.
They went towards Upton. These two persons are
dead.
Dr. Kensaly proposed to ask the witness (who wee tho
Amman of one of them) what was the objtot of the
deeutadoe, bat at Ole

--ii•—.lddie•--.1174-k—tirrir heads. and
Mr. Jur CO Leteh said it um mare henry.
The wither rid Eh esployer mad. • eramuniastiom
ho him.

--6-,Tkonealy prepared to sob If It heti not referenoe to
the object of the deputeiloo. but
The Court said It was inadmismble.
[lt appears from the lettere of Roger that Mr. Henry
Denby Seymour was down there at the time, and •
candidate for Poole, and that Roger had gone down at
his request to help hire The defeadant had represented
that is was he himself who was asked to stand foe
Poole.]
The witness went on to state that he remembered Um
&tattoo for Pools in 1852, when Mr. H. S•ymour
wan a muldlciste, bet It appeerml that he was not
prestos on any of the cocasione, and, of course, could
not, of his own knowledge, Mate what had occurred, and
whether the deputation did not go t 0... Mr. Seymonr,
, not Roger. Tb• Intones went on to state that he
remembered Mr. limpr being at Page at the thee.
[tits letters snow that he was there, bat that be was
, there to help hi. cousin Mr. Seymour.) The witness
stetted that there was another eandidate with Mr. Bey-
raisar on the sante side, and he was not Roger. Two
members wore reeturooo. The witness mast on to staM
that be bad gone to ate the defendant during Um Ind
trial, and had told Ina he desired to see If he wet the
Mr. Tlehhoren he had known. He told him he led
lived with Mr. Hopkins, and ha said, "What, Hopkins
whit had Upton Fatal" and witness said, Yes." Be
said," Whereto Hopkina!" Whams said be was deed.
Me usia, "Whet, is Hoptins's son,—the one who had
black early bah% who used to go shooting with ow
while I was at Upton?' Wits.. told him he was at
Chimp. Me recognised Roger Clarke Tiohborne in
him,--in his features and his eyes, but he thought the
nem was not what it was when hee saw him in 1852.
lie remembered Roger's eyebrows. They were thiolt
and bushy, There was a poottliatity elms& Roger'. eyes,
--• hied of wink or blink, whoa be spoke.
Look at his heir. Is it lb. setae **lour as Reger'sl—
ROM'S hair woe lights, than that. His hem seems
darker than it was whets I saw him to 1862. (The
witnesses ham geomally said that Roger's hay was miry
dark—much darker time the defendsnt's). Rio rotes,
when I knew him firnt, In 1852, was smooth. The defen-
dant's voles was similar, oonsicierlog this number of
p.,r• that had elapeet.
The Lord ChM! Jamie*. —Does the voices, thou, Mange
between 24 and 401

Witatoot —l3 volt* now WON deeper and alm•
manly ttuut It was.

1,4 m the erou-stinnination it appeared that the
witneee's statement had been taken down by Kr.
gpofforth le Raigent's preemie, tie day before he Saw
the defendant to test hie recollection, and that than he
went with • letter from Mr. ficofforth, and wee kept
waiting • quarter of an hour before he saw the defee-
dant

Another witness, a women wko had been for sieves
stoatka a servant at Ttobborne, and had MOD aorta,
sad believed the defendaat to he the man, bad never
Hee the d.tendant, it tarned out, until valerian
though unties had been given of her, aa of the last
witness, some time ago, I. 'pros. that site had knows
and eonvereed wl•h Roger, and that the defendant k
Roger Tiohbornie" Th• counsel for the proasoatios
declined to eroestemansine her.

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Then another witneer, who had been a servant rig
Tichborne when Nes Braise was there (which wee
from September, 1849, to November, 1850, Roger being
then in the army and Put ehlelot f sge), ewes*
positively to the identity el the defendant, and swore
as positively that she bad repeatedly *sea hijaa Brain*
" correct his letters in the schoolroom," and fiat Itoges
hod repeatedly " during the fishing season' woe tato
the kitalien with his out of, and his arms bare, so
that she mull see that he was not tattooed. The Lord
Onlef Juatioe, bolding in his hand Roger's letters stow.
tag that at that period he was not at Tiabborne, but
with his regiment in Ireland, solunaly warned the wit-
ness' who at length said she would not ewes: it wan in
1850, and voila swear it was not in 1851, during which
year also Roger wu in Ireland. Tote witness moo had
seen the defendant until yesterday, and than had
tested him, she said, by has reul.ecton of itoldeota
of which, me it turned out, she had no pereonal know.
ledge herself.

Then came Mrs. Legg, a Inundrers, she bad washed
for Roger the last two menthe of his resiiecoe in Rog.
land, when be waa at Uptto, in November and Decem-
ber, 1A17.2, whoa Carter was there as his servant, mid
who spoke positively to the identity of the defending
from her own reoolleetion of Roger and from hr
recclieetiou of the pattern of his shirts.
On barsday it appeared Mn. Legg knew that "Sir
Roger" was in the room where she went to see biro,
and that he tem very stout, sad taste was only one
other person present. As to the recognition of her, 10
appeared be knew she was muting, and he had been at
Poole before, and had supporters there, one of •bpoe
was at the hotel on the day the west there. As to his
sapp ,aed recollection, it appeared that In this as In Po
many other Matinees the wittier had hstsolf mentioned
to him 1011311 Of the things soppoited to be recollected,
asklog him, "Do you remember e• mud so ?" Al to
other things, and especially the patterns of the shirts,
It appeared either Mitt the wits... bad told other
parrot e about them or that Carter (who waste the &fen-
dant's sarviA) wee Roger's element it the time they
occurred, •

The I eit vainest wee Brosbr, the Customhouse
l°almlle e oriri:etehod lir. wrehowis . recolcted sauiwi .t lb. ha litail n
e.
sad
an incident he 1852 as to a wall goose 'hot by him at
Upton, and phial Roger charnel, and there was a
stroggio for it He saw him, he said, now in ooart,
and pointed oat the defendant who rt misled him of
Rose, and also of Mir Edward DoiNhty, especially
the forehead mid eyebrow. [Bogle said yesterday
Roger was tot like Sir Rdware, and other witness*
have said ho did cot resemble any ef the Tiehbernee at
all, but rather hie mother]. Witseee said when he Stet
tow" reisgoleed
huolwigki,:aeHoirosartudbielp:lhedr.,umallathre.dß:Pbse4edwortst.esedinhhk.elumalrd.B6:kiiishihitoreeorwal.
ahead him by his walk and appearance as Rower. He
maw him welkin; with Rona end Mr. Helmet, and
asked ows of them, " la the. Roza Tiehberno
" What made you think their?" said the geotleman
addressed. "I believe Sal. Roger Tlohboroe,r said the
witnev. The gentleman called &fondest sad sold,
"Some one seems to recognise you." Wittier.. said te
defendant, "1 believe you are Roger Tiobbersisl
said the defendsat, "you here the edvasitage
of me, what is you name 1" "Breathy," said wheal.
'The defendant coosidered a little, and said, "What 1
the sot. of Whit.. Bromby, the boat builder se the
Watt Shore Wiles= "Yes" "H. seed to
do any work," said defendant. " TM." said wheels
"I know be did, nod shut • hey Xba,i allies beet,
your Jul. at work. I reeelleist yes artlealarl7 Meng
round the place besides's* eau& I Mee b.,N,
I Mows drives ter the Island opposite Uphos•hosess.lasZ
I eeid be reeebeeleb vell about lie IA4 gem elm

Theo Mr. Holmes said he elionld Mk* to see Iritseas at
the eot-i tomorrow. sad be west, sad had two holm
mravereitlea with the defeadant. Wltoooo, as others
had dote, spoke to the deleodaat's apparent molleetioe
of haaideets the witaires himself unconsciously reminded
him al, t.Utos blot the inoldent in satins him if he
ricoodeoned it. Moreover, as I. this !strident pertioularly
adverted to. as having cesurred to aver at Lipton, it
spewed that °artier was then hie servant, and, all
already mentioned, he had been some time in the
service of tit. dotoodaot when he mw the witnees.

The next witness. who had been • kithheninski at
Tiehborins from 1851 to 1834, described Roger ae a
gentlenaa of middle stature, tall, and rather irelinel
to be stout. tilie also remembered him there in 1851,
and fishiog for trout in Septenber in that year, when,
is the Lord Chief Justin observed, he was in his
barracks in Ireland. The Lard Chief Justice remora-
strated against such evidence., but the witness's
nstiou was inotioued, and she went oa to declare that
she reoognised the defendant by his reennblaooe to
Roger Lod his father, not—se the former witnen bad •
and—by any likeness to Sir Edward. The enunni tor
the prosecution declined to orou-slamine her.
Then cameo woman who had toec n hariusid at an
Inn lieu Bath, where she said, in 1819, and many times
al inward., Roger came, and on one occasion, he
havirg had • faU from his dog-wart, he washed his
bands, sod tucked up his shirt sleeves, and oho Dow
his bare arms, and there were no tattoo marks upon
them. Moreover, she said, this, was something peep
Ilar about one of his thumbs. This wither vial sub-
jected too protracted orose-examination by Mr. How.
kiss, the tenour of which was to suggest that the
inaideot had been communicated to the defendant and
that the "thumb" was an afterthought;
Upon this Mr. Harcourt, the defendant'. present
anoint., get into the voitnessl'ix to prove that the
proof had been taken in We regular and proper way,
and cot onnounloated to the defendant, at least so for
as he was concerned. Mr. Harcourt was subjeend to •
searching orniornamthation by Mr. Hawkins, with a
new to elicit w`lether he had taken any pains to ...cer-
tain from the drifeedant the truth of the Australian
evoletee is to Orton, and Mr. Harcourt avowed that
he hail inked the defendant no questions about it. It
appeared, ai.o, that Mr. Harcourt had not yet even
taken the proof el "Captain Brown," the witness who
was to prove that he sew Roger at Rio, and saw the
brown mark ova his, amid ti at the defendant is the
some man—all whieit It has boon proved, Captain
Brown stated at • pubis meeting et Wept log in the
Wadi, of the trial and in the presences of a hundred
perrone, some of whom have been milled as witherne.
The Lid Chief Jirstaiat on taking his seat ea Mail,
suceened that the reports of the one should be oath-
compthirt. with any sonnosnts or observations son-
vying Opinions on one ei.te or the other as 20 the
witnesses, though he added that there was nothing
ohji otionatile iu hiving or ruler/jog to the evideisee ou
snob Of 29th • point, or in statit.g that such and mon
witnesses gave such ev•denoe on such • bead. The
int within.s errie clerks from the ofithe of Mr. Fin-
elurt, the defendant's ',regent attorney, called in
°onto-terns fwhat pared pesterday, to show that
the proofs ir statemects of some Important witnnoss
had been token regularly and properly, and not own-
rouniosted to the defoodent. In the nuns of their
areesexamination It was elicited that Mr. Onslow goes
to the elfin a good deal, sod takes • great interest in
the one, and that he also has • oink • good deed there
After an elderly lady from Poole who remembered
•ger when he was at U, ton, had been examined, and
given her ennui. as to the identity of the ofeudant,
the ant of the militnry enthrones was Galled, and two
Carbineen—brith of whom were called at the last trial
—repeated their e•iilec.co in favour of the defendant
One of them soore that on one oacestha he saw Roger
wanting with his arms bare to the elbows, and that
etio• were to tattoo marks upon them. Both then
wen also examined in support of the defendant's state-
Meat—which is the auljest of one of the charges of
purjury—as to his having paid hi, addresses to Miss
Hales, of Canterbury. in 1852, and his hiving kept the
soldiers waiting while he WY with her. They, how-
ever, on'y deposed to his having spoken to her for •
few minutes when he met her. A third whines, who
also gave evidences on this head, damned that the
soldier, used to stop at • pabliohoues, but one of
the Carbiseere deviled this.