The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-21 00:00:00

THE STOTTRBRIDGE OBSERVER.

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diency of this proceeding. Property is, of course, in
danger BO long se the flames are uneubdued, and life is
exPoleil Atto.&-te
ought to be *Malibu! to Lie bi 'Streets, for is
often physically impossible -for people to get out of the
way4of the.rushiria hOlmat s: •
N one 1er,j,cg5,24444 neoriu
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, to of sugar as preparation 1%
ay In the homes of the poorest, as well se
mansions of the rich and the palace of the

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name of Castro. Then, In January. 14,5 the ebfendant
was married, under the name of codro, stating lie lige as
the age of Orton. Then, In April, 16.65, the del enaarit got
a !mar written I,r lim in Ire name of Castro, to
an old 41111peitent, e4-Wapl Ineillelogi. atom ciinerle.
'Orton arid hit family. It Was difficult 110 cannily* of
Roger Inchtionie mending such • letter, but it was quite
Intelligible how it should have been written by Arthur
Orion. For If, Indeed, tips slefenMeat was Arthur open,
aria woe Cheer midi Inflithe Mane etf petbodallug *or
411cZarnakiliiirsoAtildra very
odpettl; Ars ti Mit cs a. de r tarn.—
th. re were the statements of the defeudant to Mr. Gibbee
in.° Mr. H ods on t bat he tad had St. V ii ue's dance, which Arthur
Orton had certain:l had. mot Roger Tlchborne had not.
Than there ea. the Wages \Veggie will and the name.
of Arran/ Ortoles Mends, Angell and Jidda, oil held-
port; out of who.° memory did those names come?
How eould all those things be explained eicept upon
the hypothetie that the defendant Is Arthur Orton?
Again, there were hie answer. at Sydney as to
his father's areut being not Gosford—but Allen, of
Imidnort and his a...iteration that he sailed from
Rialand to the Jeseie Miller In November, 1062—the date
when Arthur Orton lett Ragland. The Jebeie Millar wee
the ship In which Orton returned from South America
In I/151, and bow could the defendant have thought of It
anima he was Arthur Orton Toe defeudant, no doubt,
had called witnesem woo had been In Auttralla to prove
that he col li not be •r' (Won, beam e they t• I
ki ••u Orion, se d had aen htm mid the earendaut
togs h-r. But lb 'n the e vitt eise• diffe eat meat y
In their desciipikut of the men, and some of them
were involved in strange difficult es cc to time
and [lace— patitug the defendant at particalar per ods
itt places where he mold uot posstbly have been. Moreover,
tretr tea imouy was opposed to the sworo statements of the
defendant hmseit. The Lord Chief Justice entered Into an
eleborate analyst, of the %videoce for the defence on this
head, which he had not eoncluded when the Court adjourned.

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The Court met on Wednesday morning M the usual
hour.
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The Lord nibs? Justice, resuming his summing tip, gave
• summary of the evidence of the remaining Amitrelien wit-
nem. tor Vedette, upon the Orton p.rt of the case, conclud-
ing with the man who Welli on the Wallaby track" with
Orion. and was the only person who saw him alter the tit-
fondant left the colony. According to his evidence, he met ,
Orton iti November or December, 180. The body of testi-
mony, his lordship thought, pointed very notch to
defendant (as Csstro) and Orton being two distinct persons .
but he could not help being struck by the discrepancy be-
tween the stetemeute of the defendant's witnesses both Si
to the description of Orton and in point of time. S.me re'd
he hide scar on his cheek, worn marring., and was marked
by small-pox, while others did not observe thee° distinctive
peculiarities. Then it was possible the witneems might
have Rests some other than the real Orion, arid It was us-
satisfactory tha: no OCCALBS had been given of the history f
Arthur Orion'. brother., cf whom nothing had been heard
for many years, and one of whom had gone to ma. This
WWI one rrav of solving the difficulty, rather than by sup-
posing the sane.", came forward to pednre themselves.
Before leaving Australia, it wal necessary to advert to
this entry. In the handwriting of the defendant in
he p oker-Med, which was found alter he left Aus-
tralia—' La Bella, it Cr 1 Ichborne arrived at Hobart
Town, July, lent," which clearly counected the landing
of the demndent as Roger Tiehhorne at that i lace an
dieth gulehed from Melbourne. They knew perfectly well
that Arthur Orton went to li Mart Town in the first matinee,
ant this entry created • suspicion that it was the intentiou
of the eefendent originally to represeut that Roger riot..
borne lauded at Ilobert Town, and that he subseqiteutly, on
further consideratlen, changed the place of landing or venue
to Melbourne. The po.ket book also C litallied au entry in
his own tried of the name and addrt as of Miss Loder in
London. if sw was Roger Tichborne to know that ? The
defendant'. explanation was that Arthur Orton gave him
that information with • view to his h q dries at Wapping.
lint lordship having Intimated that he finally quitted Aus-
tralia, end would now acmmpauy the defeudant to this city.
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A Juryman gelled if • revere of Ll,ood wee not e three for
the discovery of Arthur Orion !
The lord Chief harken, replying In the affirmative, said
that nevertheless Arthur felon had never been hievd of
slues, The drat remarkable circumstance coenected with
the defendent in time country was that lb coming up the
Thames In the Sella, he ukeu B-oruley, the pilot, if he knew
• pilot named Ferguson. Bromley said he knew swo or three
of that name, and the defendant said he meant the mau who
piloted the Dundee boat.. What on earth should teduce
Roger Tichborne to make that inquiry 1 le was very
likely Arthur Orton would put such a question. aa
the Dundee testi brought the Shetlaed ponies in 'Dice
the Ortow dealt. Then there was the visit to Wee-
plug How could that be reconciled with the nos-
stbility of the diem' Rut being Roger llaborne ? Why
should he R. down to Weeping In hot baste on the
very night he arrived to ascertain what had become of the
O tone But that was nut all—there was the remarkable
conversation at the "(Hobo" public-Muse exhibiting • moat
familiar acqualutauce with the pereonality and locality of
Wapping, where probably Roger had never neon In els life
This was le explicable if the defendant were Roger, but If he
were Arthur Orton it was not to. The lcarted ceuesel for
tee defence baked how Arthur o,ton noiuii ho so loiter,
when aosuming the character of another mar, to go where
he would he Immediately recognised ; but expert ace in the
Court. of justice told them taut nun were often c,nricied
of crime by DeLeon of cone rash act, which a Bounder jade-
meet would have led them to avoid. There was nothing el-
treordeeary in Arthur Orton, after an absence of mimy years, ,
supposing he wee perpetrating Ode Imposture, going to Wu, j
pieg to learn something about hi. family, and on seeieg hie
far her', shop closed making inquiries of two ladies in the I
telobe" romeeting hie faetily, necactse, befog disguised, he
might have supposed he would be quite unknown. The second
visit on the folloseleg day was ale • striking f ‘cr, and es-
pecially hie writing a loiter In the name of A, tour Orton to
one ore rthier's sistere, slohough he represeuted himself to be a
pen ec not the nem e of S,pheue, a letter In which there was
Row teled to the sign cure the peculiar hieroglyphic which
Arthur Orlon used In his letters to Miss Leder and his own
sisters His lordship. observing that Arthnr evidently
adopted this hieroglyphic in South America, said there was •
custom in all Spaeleh ceuntriee, especially among the eon -
menial comumuttlee. to attach to signatures • " rubrica,"
a peculiar mark or d wish, without wince, when ouce awn',
checous would 11.4 be honoured by a banker. A .sdlier re-
mutable circumstance wan the coneealment which the de-
fendant preserved, and, when the 0-ton Case was sprung
upon hire, denying that he hoof ever b-en at Weepier, or
Made the visits to that I Reilly which hal been die-
, were& ICur was that ell. Castle. 0 ton and his sisters
were more or less In the deleneautes pay. The two
sisters uow lining c. uld have thrown a great light on the de-
fendaniee story, but they had not been called. So far as the
Crown was concerned, they would have been wrong to have
celled Charles ortoo, as he hail sworn both way. and c,uld
not he relied upon' or to have called the misters as they were
In the deiced ,nt'sinterest ; but lithe defendant had ceFol
the letter, who were much older than Arthur, they could
have spoken to the brown mark on the side, the small-pox
marks, the ecare and wounds, sod a variety of OThtil Deluge
whin would probably have placed the matter beyond Mount
tee way or the other icy had, however, not been 'ailed,
Red the defendant must have had some good and suffieleut
reason for keeple g them back. As to Arthur Orton having
entirely disappeared from the score soon after the eefendarie
left Australia ; his lordship /mid Mr. Spolforth adopted the
singularly Imprudent course of offering to Cater of Waggle-
Wegga el.ooo for his discovery, the Dim to be
divided between himself and Arthur Orton, haprolent, be
cause it might have tended to • result which Mr. eeofforth
could never have Intended—the coming forwird ef a ficti-
tious Arthur Orton It mrght be assumed that the man
could 'Ave been fouud by Carter at any practicable distance
from Wegga-Wagge, he would have been forthcoming. He
then remarked upon Dona Clara Ilayley's having mu n "A.
ii " tattooed en Arthur Orton'. arm in &Unpile., and Mrs.
Mies Jury having also wren it at Hobart Town, nod pointed out
that the defendant had &scar on a cotreaponotas place. These
beina all the facts relating to the Orton case, the jury would
say whether, taking with them the affirmative evidence of
Mies Loader and others, and the negative evidence of the
defendant's witnesses, the defendant was in their judg-
ment Arthur Orton or roll. If he vu Arthur Dunn
there ws4 an end of the nutter, but the converse of the
proposition did not follow. He might not be Arthur Orton,
and yet not be R. Ter Tlchbotne, aud the preposition of the
learnt d counsel that If he was not Arthur Orton the case
for the prosecution failed unless they showed who he vole
was wholly untenable. Then came the question whether the
defendant was Roger Ttchborue. seed that depended upon
the judgment and opinion of persons who were acqualeted
with the latter, and who raid that the defendant was or WWI
lot It oger Tlehborne. Observing that he would begin with
the Techbortie family, he strongly deprecated the attempt
which had been made at public meetinee and elsewhere to
create a pr. Wire egainst them, by representing that they
were a set of handed c nsplrators, who wished to keep an
honest man out of hi, just rights. He raid theft they honestly
beileved that the defeudant was au trupoetor—and no man
but one who was a fool or fanatic, or • combination ol both.
conld doubt that thy were actong from honest and
terested motives—they owed a duty both to themselves, and
their young Women to see that he was not ousted'nit of
his inheritance cy a wicked and fraudulent attempt of this
alleged character. Every family had an interest lit its own
honeur and respectability, and there cored ee be doubt the
Tichbornes were bound to 'edit such an attempt, and see
that the child was not sacrificed, as he would have been if
they had not stood forward in his defence. ills lordship
then entered upon a resume of the femily evidence, and
passed to the .itonyhtust and military witnesses.

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iyker. The tarot of genial:karat abscission and craniological teapsia
books, that Under the bail of "Fanny Items," a Kentucky
her alvedisea hiiceelf InsWisief4ro7,
.. of the I, fldon b&rolt-ers as ;sere their'i°ro' ''.2asl'llateinllte°-ebk-l'n:is
had remove:d all their goods shortly before to tire. caned a jostice ~f puss° its° thu roo
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• WxDIESDATft• . and there
Thl commemollment of what is lately to be a vast '
long operation—the removal of the ruins 4 the Par.-
cechniiiiin, arid the rdmultonsoad searoh for such
articles, of value as were known to be stored there, AAA
which any, by • inwe is less remote chance, be still
Uninjured, ware made early on Tuesday gporning by
the Selvage Corp., &deleted by a staff of trust-
worthy men in the servic• of Messrs. Smith and
Redermscher, the proprietors of the premise.. Their
work consisted for the most part in clearing away from
the ruins the great mass of iron beneath which the
principal and most valuable portion of the Drayage
is raid t r he hidden, and to those who may have seen
the ruins, this will be admitted to be a task of much
difficulty. The rains are literally strewn with long
iron rode, which, for the sake of greater safety, were
used in the manufacture of the building, Instead of
the ordhary wooden laths; and with the iron sheet-
ing of floors and panels which also t r a large extent
found place iu the construction of the premises. It
Was found extremely difficult to conduct the search
while these things were projcting from the ruins,
though it is believed that they will have been most
useful during the fire in sheltering, and, it may be,
hoped, preserving the goods upon which they fell.
Among the first things brought out uninjured were some
racing cape belonging to Mr. W. D. Benson, of Belliol,
the well-known University oarsman, and a few ankles
of plate and bronze &poet ed by his father, General
Benson. The progress male by the men was but el or,
their work being much impeded by the pon Krone ma-
terials with which the ruins are covered. A number of
valuable articles, such asclocke, swords, china, bronz,s,
and glass ornaments were, however, found during the
day, and d e posited in • private room in tt e offiee. Several
handsomely bound books, belonging to the libraryeof
the Comte d'Aguils, have also been recovered, though
in a eerily damaged condition.
Sir Richard Wallace and the proprietors harLan in-
terview on Tuesday, and it was understood that his lose
comprises a very valuable library, a large quantity of
plate, a collection of agegnt armour and a few pictures,
toongh none of any great importance. Sir Richard
is inimred for £28,100, but he estimates the value
of his property deposited in the Pantechnicon at, at
least, five times thet amount. It is believed, however,
that much of it will be recovered intact, and a
special search will shortly be made. Mr. Walter Cave,
a member of the banking firm of Messrs. Prescott,
Grote, and Co., has lost property worth £2O 000, but
he id, it is said, insured. Lord Cadogan, whose name
as a serious loser by the d&seter has already been
mentioned, was &leo insured to Borne extent. Au
officer in the Army, who deposited some furniture two
rays before the fire, insured it for £3OO, but he now
finds that jewelry and plate were included among
the goods, and that the real value was about £4,0110.
Daring Monday night and throughout Tuesday four
steam engines were at work upon the ruins. Forty fire-
men, in addition to the Salvage Corps, were on duty
during the day.

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A western stump orator, in the course of one of Lig
Retches, remarked :—" Oeu,lenten, If the Par-iy-111 ocean
*or an Irene, and the hall clouded cloopy of iisaveu awl
Thaler., itrottod of our yearth erne a sheet of paper, I couldn't
begin to •rita toy love of couktry out J IL'.
A New York parer describes among &her articles in
the ton', le of a I ‘dy of fashion. her <roily nee-touga slth
jswilkd boodle. Haut ton-g to tx ,endvd In America
A batter in Terre Haute, Who mein, has • bundle
hie old unpaid bilis hoop up In Ma store, labelled, "Th.
easson I do not give credit."
An American suggests a conai,Al plan for otilialng
coal duct Coal Is dear but corn cheap In lowa. He grit di
halt a b label of earn very flue, bolls In a barrel of water
until It becomfl Si starch, rolls It IS coal dust, and mixes up
Ilse mortar. When dry It forme a peculiar brick, which is
cut out and piled for the Willtar, and, say. the Inventor, ass
, fuel It Is not to be beaten.

TBE INQUEST ON MR. scorr.
The Inquest oti Sidney bout,who was killed on Saturday
by the sudden fall of a wall, was he'd on Tuesday at the St.
Martin's Vestry-hall before Mr C St. Clare Bedford, the
C r.ner for the City of Westminster. Tae body of the de-
...ea was formatly tlentilted by his father, Mr. John Szott,
a wholesale collar manufacturer in King Willis, -street,
Siren who said that he was seventeen years of age, and,
with n,ll elder brothers, had been in the habit of attending
fires for some time nest, lie and his brothers were present
at the fire at the Pentecnicon on Fridsy night, and the
deceased lift home on tiatueday to visit the rubs,
William 'toward, a member of the Metropolitan Paw
Brigade, stated that he we, at work on Saturday al &ono=
in the ruin., and saw the de-eased lad, who wore the uniform
of a volunteer fireman. They talked together for at least
twenty minute., And in the course of the commies lion the
deceased told him his name. glee minutes before six o'clock
he heard the wall, front which they were alz,.ul 21 or 25 feet
distant, cracking, and he shouted to the deceased to rim.
B-fore the witness had taken two steps the wall fell behind
him, and he wat thrown to the ground On recaveri,g him-
self he missed the deceased, and he celled him repeatedly by
his name. When the smoke and oust bad subsided he saw
him Bing arcid the ruins, lia tram Just clear of the wall,
and two or three beets were lying an his lees. Witness,
with assistance, removed him to the offices Of the Paulen-
micon.

Primer, the annerintandent of the A district of the
Mt trnpoliten Fire Brigade, said that ahout half-past four
o'clock on Friday eftenioon the firemen of the Victoria-street
Malian, at which he lived, were cellist to a fire at the
PantechniCon. An °mile in cher,:e of an offl en toil several
men at once proceeded there, and be 1011, wed in a cah,
arriving at about ten minute. to flee. He found that his
engine and four others were t!' en getting to work, and seeing
that it seat likely to Le • brae fire, he sent a man on hone.
hack to the station. In Victorla-st reel to telegraph for more
help. Th,rteen •nglues and a large body rif firemen, with
Captain Shaw at their head, arrived porn at ter. There was
rather a short supply of water at first. Replying to the
coroner, herald nothing had yet transpired to explain in any
way the origin of the tire.
Mr. Busby, a ouroan in Wilton•place, sticks to having
been callid to ne the deceased on S iturdny evening, and to
ending him dead. Ile bad sustained a Francon of the skull
and several scalp wound's. his left arm was broken, and his
right foot Ira, crushed. He imagined that death must hare
been Instantaneous.

At this point Mr. Bedford, the Csroner, suggested that the
It uniry should be adjourned, in order that an Inipsrtial and
comprehensive Investigation m ght be ma :e by Captain Shaw
and the other authorttlea of the Fire B r,gade with a els w to
ascertain, if possible, the cause of the fire. He e 'mused
thst the C oroner's court stood In a somewhat peculiar
position In these matters. Formerly coroners had to lu qui re
into the camps. of the burnizig of houses, but their jurisdic-
tion had gradually Lein superset:el, and It seas now held
judicially that, errant when a death Occtaired, they hod
nothing to do with investigating the origin of firer. ABi I
for the restorstlon of their original functions In that rasp-cr.
was Introduc:d Into Parliament last Sesstor, but sub.equently
withdrawn. and he felt that In a ciao like OA, although the
death, which gave him his jurisdiction, had arisen only in
a collateral way, the door was opened Li an Inquiry of Routh
public inportance, which it would be a pity to let pass.
The fire at the l'antechnlcon was a most disastrous
event, Involving, aa it did, so many and such large
Individual losses, and he wee quite sure the Jury would not
grudge the time they might be called upon t spend In tbe
public interest In In ing to secertain the real cause of
the disaster. Ile added that he WSJ NtrOrgiy ol opitlion that
every fire, whether small or great, should be the subject of
au I, Tau before a properly authorized tribunal.
Toe inquest was then adjourned.

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