The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-31 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER,

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to kit; client, iii• mead sTa—ost de gracefully. _ 1
Mr. Hawkino :It is only fair, as Mr. Holmes has not been ,
called, to say that Ws ruts entirely on the bare, ttnenpported
testimony of the defendant.
The Lord Chief Jestice : It is a great mid ortuee to Mr,
Rolm°a that one pvty or the. ether has not thought proper
to put him In the Ise and give hint an epportuulty to vindl-
Cate hl If from • gait amount of elegriclou Which lunge
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' Mr. s nekeinted onethat UM defendant, as seen
&she sa ogees re. began, for the float time, to adopt
the peculiarity to enger's ye "—a pecalivity wince Roger
ahandoned entirely two or three years More he went on
board the Bella. Than, asserting that even the defendant's
own condnci in court proved he was not Rosier itchborne he
dwelt In seoen.l eloquent and powerful pausges upon the
Improeselllty of Roger li.tening to his lather veins cadet
by his own counsel "a degraded. contemltnne, and
cowardly elave," and all Iy whom he wes I ureti or le-
spected being dualeed as bad and wicked consptrators,
ereer to rob him of hie estates, cud to 'himself hen g
deeicted in the most iildeons end ri puisive coloars.
Attributing to Lady Vichbereis nothing more than a deiu don
•In retirglitsing the defendant, be quoted from evidence to
show that she was dettronned to recognize any one wno was
prevented to her as her son, and thet she lab:heed under the
belief that her reo guition alone wont i be en admit to give
him the title stud estates. He said that Cubitt and Ii hoe.
knew Lady Tiohborne wan yearning for her son, and they
beguiled her with a counterfeit, which, on being touched
and tried wee tuned valueless and had. Condemning
the imputation that the alleged seduction was only Intro-
duced by the crown for the purpose of prejudice, he argued
that they would be open to tee uverest mum° if they had
not brought forward that atrocious piece of perjury, whiny
was the result tin desire on the part of the uefeudant to
extricate himself from the difficulty in which he had been
placed by his ignorance of the contents of the sealed pecket
deposited with Mr. Glasforel. By the document, it will ben-
collected, Roger I Idle true to idea promise that if he mar-
ried its couch], K ote Doughty, before three years were over,
lie would build • church or chapel at Tic flume to the Holy
Virgin. About the nine time he gave a droller document
to Kate Doughty in Lis own hand erltinr, dated Tichborne
Perk, June 22, 1852, and on it she hod written, " This was
written the feat day I ever saw Rager," After It ogees
will wee proved, Goseord destroyed the packet, but Lady
Ra deb if e preserved her copy. When the dettedaut
was quell:Mined by Goateed at Ll:e Grosvenor Hotel about
the 'mullet, he aentitted he knew mottling about ii; but
long afterwards, and on the very next day after Goateed In
his examination at the Law Itiettution in 1567 died led the
fact that lc was destroyed, and when he knew it would only
tea matter of oeth against oath between him and (keel on,
he wrote a version ot the document stating what arrange-
ment. were to be made In the event of his cousin being
"accent,' and In his cross examination in the Common
Pleas he deliberately swore that tu July or August, 1952, he
Seduced hr rat the I Ichborne Mil,. The defendant further
said Mock place during the time he was psylng • visit to
llchboree, ten dais before the engagement was broken elf
by Sir Edward Doughty. I hove, hoenver, the means nt
contradicting trite sOreetune 1 &helloed. Ledy Ittduliffe
emphatically deelect that It seer took place, and there is
proof that during Roger Tlcheorne's last visit to Itchborne
front the evening of the 19/h to the 22ild of June he
wu never °Mehra the house and grounds alone with
his conde, and Once witnesses are Corroborated in
Roger's letters that he never after slatted the plate.
Coetinuing his review of the evidence, the learned counsel
added—not one witness thot has beau called hoe been able
to speak to one single act of impropriety, nor has the prying
of any servant been able to elicit anything of the kind In
cosi citation the learns d counsel said—You ore boldly and Atel a-
Ciously asked i o disregard a virtuout woman's oath, to destroy
the hapoleess of her husban,l, her children, and all who
hold her reputation dear, to stain her maiden Dame with
tee taint of Impurity, and stamp her with perjury, and
to pronounce to the world that she has been soiled by
his (the defendant's) filthy, blighting, unholy, nu.
radars!, and abominable touch. I have no fear of
you. In your hands her honour, her happiness' are
mete, and you will guard them as carefully and as vigilantly
as you would guard your own. Alter some general remsrks
on the mode and manner In which the defence had been
conducted, and a mood of praise at the petience and atter.
tuition of the jury to the evidence, th 3 learned cuunsel
concluded amidst Cud applause: