The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-24 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL

[Our limited space preclude us from giving mart
than the following condensed account.]

HUNDRED- AND SIXTY-FIRST DAY..

At the sitting of the court on Monday morning, the
Lord Chief Justice expressed & hope that Mr. Hawkins
had not suffered from what occurred on Friday after-
noon. Mr. Hawkins replied that he had not.

In ramming his speech, Mr. Hawkins dwelt at 101310 length
upon the deception the defendant practised upon Mr. Scott,
now deceased, and other Hampthire gentlemen who were
examined at the last trial on his behalf by representing that
certain lettere of a very " ugly " character discussed at the
Sires, ord meeting, which he himself had written, were
forgeries, and had been wickedly concocted to deprive
him of hie unto" and title. one was to Mrs. Pardon,
asking her tn kindly Inform the lady for whom he left a letter
with her (Mrs. Mn!) Ann 'Jury) to •• oomlcate" with him at
once, as she would hear something to her advantage, and to
give information concerning Miss Loder, and say what had
become of her brother Thomas'• children. The other was
addressed to Mias Elizabeth Jury :—"Door madam, I have
received your kind letter this morning. (A letter which had
never been produced.) I am sorry to think yen should be so
much mistaken as to think lam your brother. Your brother
Is • great friend of mine, and I regard him as a brother;
and I have promised to send him all the information
I can about his friends. I cannot call upon you at present,
but I will do so before long. I have nut to your sister the
likeeess of your brother's wife and children" (the wife and
children of the defendant). Mr. Haskins asked the jury to
say what would have beau the course of ,Me. Scott and the
tear gentian.., if they had known that those !alters to
Arthm Orion's sisters, which were written under the
feigned name of Stevens, I ad emanated from the defend-
ant himself—that, Instead of being the deceived, he was
the deceiver, and that he had also made visite to Wap-
ping immediately alter hie arrival in En glen d,
and being identified as an Orton by Mts. Falrhead
and Mrs. Jackson, and also by Mr. Pardon and sumectedby
Ortone sister to he her brother ? Nothing could have been
more !scandalous than to have allowed an honourable gentle-
man like Mr. Scott to go into the box at the lad trial under
the impression that these letters were fraudulent. I:p to this
point, having traced the career of Arthur Ore n almmt from
his Infancy, he coeteteled that the hely of teathrony to
prove that the defendant was the same person was irre-
sistible and conclusive. He then paned to the defendant's
Wapping evidence, which, he said, was n( t founded on
facts within the witnesses' own knowledge, but on per.
tonal inspection of the defendant, coupled with the re-
collections they professed to have of Arthur Orton before
he left Wapping In 1863, and which had slumbered fur a
period of twenty years. At best mere opinion of the
Identity of any individual whose Identity was disputed,
formed solely ell a view of his person, was Of very little
value when c pposed to wellaacertained facts and eiroutn-
steno., and especially when the people expressive that
• pinion had only • mere casual acquaintance with the party
In Illustration of life argument, the leer, ed compel en.
proceed a doubt whether even any of his "friends on Frith p'
could apeak to the colour of his eyes or the length of uis
eyebrow!.
rho Lord Chief Just ice: Did any of them hod the length of
pour foot? (Laughter.)
Mr Hawkins, adverting 0 the conduct of the defendant,
sled that, although he knew as early as October, 1167, that
the Tichberne family declared him to be Arbor OW it. he
never made an attempt to see a single individual in Wap-
ping who kuew Arthur uutil he saw a Mr. Page in 1868 If
he were conscious if not being Orion, he woeld not hove
omitted to go and confron Ortou's relatives and friends at
once: hut if be were toniclom that he was Orion, he had
the best ipossibie reason for avoiding them and Wapping
as a plague. When at length it was necessary to get the
evidence of persons who knew Orion, they found
that the defendant had collected around him • body of
persons interested, pecuniarily and otherwise, in establishing
that he wee Roger Ilehborne. Al early as March MUT, Mr.
Guildford Onslow, In • letter to Mr. McEvoy, said he had got
£6OOOO his being the man. Holmes and Norris bad Mee a
deep professional interest In assorting his CISIM, and neither
cf these geettemen bad been called. Bulpets, the banker,
had given epe defendant liberty to draw to the extent of
itelle and tfingston, his friend, bad been Leninfi hundreds
upon the event, and had commissioned bloxam to sot
for him In those transactionk There was also • money.
lender who was looking for his 60 per cent. All
these pereons were busy trying by every mums to make the
world believe that it wins absolutely impossible the de-
fendant could be any other than the man he represented
himself to be, and they kept in the dark the feyot of its being
alleged that he was Arthur Orton. Dealing with each of
the W4pping witnesses. he said that only eight of them were
examined a the last trial, and that the rut first saw
the defendant at public meetings, where he mai exhibited,
and where the prose•aticr., In defiance of all decency,
woo denounced by Mr. Whalley, Mr. Onslow, and other
penona as Infamone and got up merely for the purpose
of oppressing find crushing an Innocent man, and saving the
Tichborne estates to the family who had now get thsm. As
a fair sample, he espectaliy refuted to the meeting at Crotch-
ton's, the "White Lion," ShAtiwell, In July, 1873, called by
circular, which described It se an aseemely of those who
swished to, give evidence in the defendant's favour, and rya-
sided over by Sir 1 Vendley.—Mr. Hawkins then adverted to
the proceedings that took place at the meeting and the
speech of "Captain Brown, ' who got up and said that he
knew the defendant as Roger Ti chborne in Rio,
that he recognised him by the brown tnnk on his side,
and the peculiarity of hi. thumb ; that he had
" mugged " him on board the B,Uct himself before the
vetoed left the port, and further that he was acquainted In
1110 with the witneu Lute, the mate of the ORprry which
picked up Boger at sea. The natural remit ot these and
other addreanu wee to influence the minds and warp the
udgments of all present, and make them think that the
defendant must be Roger, gni was therefore • very ill-used
man. it was not surprising, therefore, that every one be-
lieved he was Seeger Tichte rue--The setenei noun.' then
minutely reviewed the marks and peculiarities said to exist
upon Arthur Orton, and with regard to the ears and caning.
said : I deny the fact that Arthur orten wore earflap—Ed-
mum' did. But It Arthur were them it must Imee been for so
ehort • time that all trace is obliterated.; but I place It on the
evidence of one witnese—Mas Loder—who above all other"
In the world, moat and would have known If he wore
them, and she says he did not. It I. unques-
tionable that Arthur Orton had the smallpox, but in
so mild • form as to leave no marks—no perceptible marks—
and whether the defendant has a,clltary trace or not I don't
"mow On MI sides It is admitted that Arthur Orton had St.
Vittues dance. As to Arthur Orton having large hands and
feet. I will &rattail your attention to the enormous size of the
defendant's body, making his feet and hands look small by
eompirison. bet if they zeuld be attached to a man of 13
or IS} stone, I doubt if they would then be considered
remarkably small. Yates, the bootmaker, produced a
last in the Ulna state he eald it was when he ranee Arthur's
lact pair of boot.. There Is doubt if it was last titled up in
1861, and if it was not the evidence Is of no value Screws were
found In it that were not In use before 1857, and, therefore, I
think this evidence should be placed on one Ode. Jeffrey.
Mr. Lowlay's foreman, eald the defendant has • large foot.
Mr. Lobe. of Regenestreet, produced • hoot he made for
the defendant which spoke for itself. Yates'. lot is
11i in , Bea lay's II in., and Lobb's 11 ; no remit! k aole
difference, when you consider the material the boots were
made of. Yates made large rough butchers' boots Mr, liewlo
made the defendant light cloth spring-aides, and Mr.
Lobb's boot was a gentleman's riding boot, each of which
would vary a little If made for the same man. Those who
knew Arthur Orton most, and had an opportunity of
seeing Me hands, never saw a scar on his hand, as spoken
to by some of the defendant's witneuee. The defendant
said that the Arthur (erten whom he knew was a sharp'
featured man, very large tan: bony, with a leegthy
bite slightly minted with the small-pog. Da does net pre.
tend to any there was any scar on him, and it Arthur Clion
was then ems... Dens the real Arthne Orton he would not
describe a scar that does not exist. lie mentions no scar on
his hands or face. The scar an thy face from falling off one
of the Shetland ponies airu described bg Weston to have
presents, * whitened appearance three days after, ;got like
one he had has tor 82 years, and that anyone looking him le
the lace must have seen It He Is not corroborated by •
single being, but assuming the aectient to have occurred;
and ta7o left • scar, how is it poulble mane of the other
vitneues lotted it? Having referred to the discrepancies
in the evidence relating to the scars, the learned counsel
sett that Richard Moon, the pharmaceutical chemht,
who did not know where he resided, said he dressed
Orton's SCAT In September, 1551, lour yearn after flyers
saw It and four lean s after another enfant noticed it
1/111 all gone. (Laughter). TM, dOctor, or chemist, who
lived In an unknown drool, met an Unknown friend who
Induced him to come forward and Aber hie evidence.
Upon_ the subject of these scan upon the hands and
face, a desire only to remind you that the register ticket
of Arthur Orion, which is signed by himself as gine' • true
description, states that he had no marks. Only one witness,
William Jarvis, spun of a mark on the left arm above the
elbow, clamed by • pony bite, roe gash was pinched' the
, coat was not torn, and there was he blo,d Ti Is int-
! poulhie to Imagine that the flesh was so tora as to
cause • rree'k to remain. There has been an attempt
made—a fraudulent ettempt—to create • sear that don
not eght on the defendedas person, and for the purpose
cf teltabllshlng it Mr. Edward Joeepa Wake', was called,
who Swore that In the absence of Dr, Doble, *he stlended
Arthur, he couterhied and pour iced the wound. This is
the man who swore to having deetroyed Dr. HMls?'
hooks, and who showed himself unworthy of belief.
Donna Clan Haley saw blue fano- marks on Arthur
Orton's arm. Which Mn, Mina Jury corroborates Urine
seen the letters "A. ft on Arthur's arm when he wee
in Hobart Town. Hopwood did not see the lettere, but
he noticed • bine mark on the arm. They are not upon
the de/endears person now, but I ascribe it to ob.
UMW= as shown by the cantainallon on the Men,