The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-02-10 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE CASE.

The Attomey-Geheral resional his speech on Monday
morning by again cornmenting on the facts which had been
elicited in the cross examination of the claimant. The claim-
Mit said Waterford was a place on the sea, and had several
large stone bridges--wherem the fact was Waterford was not
on the sea and had only one old senorita bridge and no stone
btidges at all. The claimant never could have been
at Waterford, or he would not make such mistakes as
these. He could not distinguish between a leek, and a
drawing-room, anti did not know whether he had ever been
present at either one or the ether. lie was utterly ignorant
of Dublin life and society, yet the real Roger Tichborne
while stationed there mixed in Me best society, and was
conthmally at halls and parties. lie said he was Dever at
Cashel in his life, yet Roger Tichborne in one of his letters
gave a very good description of the castle at Cashel,
which hart formerly been one of the residences of the
kings in Ireland. He did not know what a mis-
anthrope was, but the real Roger Tichborne, in one of his
letters, spoke of his being a misanthrope in Londe,' and ex-
pressed a desire to get away front it as stmn as possible. The
claimant was asked whether John Bunyan was a prize-
fighter, a bishop, or • man who kept fox-hounds, anti the
only answer he could give was that his impression was that
John Bunyan was quite the reverse of what lie (the Attorney
General) was. (laughter) The real Roger Tichnorne, how-
ever, knew all about John Bunyan, and took great interest
In Fosters life of him. The claimant knew nothing whatever
about Lamartine, but a poeket-book of Roger Tiehborne would
be produced in which there were no end of allusions to the
1 works of Lamartine in his own handwriting. The claimant
pretended to remember the patterns of his shirts and pocket
handkerchiefs sent to the wmh seventeen years before, but
lie could not recollect the Christian name of Miss Halm, of
Canterbury, a young lady to whom he said he paid his ad-
dresses after breaking off with his cousin Miss Doughty.
Ile said he remembered that he used to keep his
company of Carbineers waiting outside of Mrs. Hales's :
house for an hour or two while he paid his atten-
tion to her daughter. Could anything be more ludicrously
preposterous than an officer saying that he kept his men out-
elite fr a couple of hours white he woo courting I But Miss
lialee would be called and say the whole story was a cock-
anti bull fabrication. She did not know Roger Tichborne,
never saw him to her knowledge, and was certainly never
engaged to him. The claimant said he never belonged to
any otherclubthanthe Army and Navy, whereas Roger TlM-
borne was also a member of the Alfred ('lub, and while in
'melon spent a considerable portion of his time there. It
was eo doubt remarkable the number of little things the
claimant pretended to remember, but that fact wan not half
so wonderful as the number of meat events in the life of the
real Roger Tichborne that he knew nothing at all about.
Ile now came to the " card case at Briehtott." This case
was well known, because it was fully reported at the time
that wm in July and August, MI. A Mr. Hamp
"had lost £2O hi gold and three £lOO bills of exchange
I by means of masked cards, anti hence the trial be-
fore Lord Chief Justice Jervis. If Roger had been
mixed up in the case, the name would surely have become
known, but it never had been mentioned, and no evidence
but that of the plaintiff had been laid before the jury upon
the subject. This must be the card ease to which the
claimant referred, became he had himself fixed the date,
and said that Johnny Broome was mixed up in it. lie also
pat it that Broome was staying at the "Bedford," which was
rather ridiculous when they remembered what sort of
• person Broome was.
The next matter to which he would refer wild the will of
Roger Tichborne ; and this wm an Important subject.
Roger had only a life interest in the Tichborrie estate, while
he had the reversion in fee of the Doughty estates. The
plaintiff said be hail a row with Mrs. Naugle because he had
not selected her son as successor to the estates in a eertain
event. Mrs. Namle would state that in every particular the
statement was as absolute fabrication that she never
had a ornarn•l with Roger, or said a word to him about his
will and further that she never was at Mr. Hopkins 's,
where the plaintiff said it took place. Roger hal no
power to settle the Tiehborne estates, and his statement
as to the P. teglity estates *as an absolute falsehood.
The plaintiff knew nothing of Edward Arundel being in
the Will, whilst there was a letter of Roger to Mr. Gosford,
reline:ding that Arundel's name should b,t struck out
of till will, because he was going to become a Jesuit
and would therefore have no heir. The name still, how-
ever, remahieti in the will, became Roger never re-
turned to alter it. The will of Roger was an elaborate
and most carefully csnsidered instrument. It was dated
the 10th June, 1852. It recited the settlements of 10501
the charge upon the Donglity estate of £2.500 a Y., for ladY
eighty's jointure, £B,OOO for Miss Doughty, £lO,OOO ter Sir
Edward, and e. 100,00, ft r disencumbering and adding to the
Tichborne t states. It also r,cited several other monetary
detaile Alfred was to have £?..000 a year on attaining his
majority. £4,000 a year if he should marry, anti there was
to in' £1,0(0) a year for the jointure of his wife. Catherine
Doughty was to occupy Cidon whilst she remained un-
Prettied, and the Dottglity rents were to accrue to pay off
Ineumbrames on both estates. Alfred's eldest son would by
the settlement take the Tichborne estates, and the Middlesex
estates anti the Doeghty estates were to go to the second
son. On failure of this, the two estates were to go to
Catherine's first and second sons in the same way. The
Tichborne estates would ultimately go to the eldest son of
Lady Dormer, and the ultimate remainder of the Doughty
entails was to go to the second son of Lord Arundel. There
wt,re a number of other detaiLs in the will. The plaintiff
hail, of course, seen a copy of this will, but even with that
assistance he had not been able to get the will accurately
into his head, and could not help displaying his ignor-
ance, such as could not possibly he showed by the
real Roger who made the will. Roger's will could not
take any effect during the lifetime of his father, hut the plain-
tiff talked abont the will regulating the father's interest,
which WY absurd. The learned gentleman then read the
correspondence between Roger and Mr. Slaughter, which
showed Roger'. complete mastery of the legal arrangements
affecting the estates. After the correspondence Roger saw
Mr. Slaughter, and it was arranged that the scheme of the
will, which was a draft, should he drawn set fully by Mr.
Burrotighs, the conveyancer. Upon Mr. Burroughs' draft
there were aims notes of Roger's own, which shelved the
rough intelligence in reference to what it proposed to do.
The plaintiff said in his evidence that he had no recollection
of having put Cu Amndel into the will stall, but the fact was
that Mr. Burronghs having I.ft him out, Roger put the fol-
lowing note on the margin of the draft, "On failure of tutu.
mitat ion above. I wish the estatesto go to say cootie, Everard
Amadei, second son of Lord Arundel, of Wardour." In one

of his letters Roger said, "I have written out my will anti
left it with slaughter. The only thing I have left out
is about the church, which I will only build under the
circumstances that 1 have left with you In writing." Thiol
would strongly Ilolifinn the ageount which Mra Radcliffe
would give and the writing moles the hand of the dead
Roger would confute the Ile which the living claimant had
told. It would show the strong and permanent affection of
Roger for her, his ardent desire for a marriage with her, and
his determination lithe event of the mucilage taking place
to build a church to the Virgin, in thankfulness for her inter.
cession for him, to which be would ascribe the bringing about
the marriage. The plaintiff said that he had had a quarrel
with his father, but Roger's 'win letters breathed nothing but
affection for his fath,r, whilst as to his mother he said
" l'here is another thing I have thought of for a long time.
I awl my mother never could agree together. it would be
desirable, therefore, that in awe my father ahould die tar.
leg the time I am travelling to insure her, If it has not
been done already, so much a year for her life, and let her
live where the Mm except at Tichborne, as it would be
quite impossible for me to pot up with her character."
The learned gentleman then read several letters of the
plaintiff., most of which had been read on previous nem-
alone, and contrasted the bad spelling, the want of English,
RIO the ill.constructed and feeble sentences in them, with
the writing of Roger, arguing that the two sets of eorre-
spondenee valid not have proceeded from the same mind.
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palm§,l.

Then came the Mellipilla case, which he must go into in
but the point of it was this, lie could establish two
things to demonstration—that Roger never was at Mellipilla
at all, and farther, that of the 15 or it different people called
before the Chili Commission, emery one of them denied haribg
known • Roger Charles Tichborne. These persons were many
the most respectable residents in the place, and they were
persons to whom the plaintiff had referred. and to whom Mr.
Holmes bad sent affidavits They, therefore, came to the
ease with their minds unfairly prejudierd against the defen-
dant, and yet they all gave the testimony that they had
never known a Mr. Tichborne out there. lids matter, how-
ever, would take him sonic censiderable time to go through,
and although it was not yet the usual Mine to adji urn, he
believed that no time would be bat If the jrry would permit
the adjourinuent is take place at one*.
The 'farther bearing warn assordingly adjourned at half-
past three o'eloak.

On Tuesday, the Attorney-General, continnine his opweeh,
said that bete. referring to the proceedings before the Ch I Ilan
Commission and to the Melipilla case he would advert to the
evidence of Moore, who had been in South America with
Roger and knew a great deal rof hint. Moore at first said that
the claimant was an Impostor, but he would not swear
distinctly whether this was before or after he had seen
him at the Law Institution, lle, however, hoped to ratlsfy
the jury that Moore said this after the examination at the
Law Institution. Ile also got money from the Dowager
through Mr. Gosford, though he got it upon what he said he
should call a begging letter." Ile then attended at the law
Institution and heard the claimant's account of almost the
only incident that he knew anything of—the albatross
wounding Roger. Moore having heard the examination of
the plaintiff, it wag eald became converted, hut It was
alunat impossible that that examintion really could
have converted hiin. Moore had on more than
one occasion before the examination denounced the plaintiff
as an Impostor ; and yet the jury were asked to believe that
this examination changed his opinion, when he in truth
said that, as to the almost single circumstance the
claimant knew anything about, he had made a mistake.
: Moore produced Bret one diary and then two others,
which he eaid were all kept contemporaneously, one
document being notes for another. As long as ha could lie
forebore to mention his diaries, and whether he had not got
a quantity snore of papers was uncertain. Ile said that
Roger said that lie was going to Melipilla, and that he saw
him start on his way there. The fact was that lie only saw
him cross frotn the hotel to Plasa in the direction of the
Melipillaroad ; but be did not even see that he left
Santiago. The oorrenpondeece of Roger and Moore, he
should submit, showed clearly that ftoger never Wan at
Mellpilla ; and Moore never raid that he hail started for
that place until he came into the witness box on the second
occasion to mend his evidence. Thea came the daguerreo-
type of Roger, which the plaintiff had said was taken at
Southampton; and which Moore said was taken at Santiago.
The learned gentleman exhibited to the jury an enlarged
copy .of the picture side by side with an enlarged copy of a
photograph of the plaintiff, and submitted that it was im-
possible for anybody to believe that they represented the
same person. Moore said, to account for the plaintiff having
said that the daguerreotype had been done at Southampton,
that he did not know of the daguerreotype being teken at
Santiago, because it was taken by stratagem. This, hovvever,
was hardly consistent with the fact that there were two
daguerreotypes, and in them Roger was taken in different
attitude., and in one a waistcoat was shown while It was not
shown In the other. A letter from Roger to Lady Doughty
also stated, "When I was in Santiago the last Mine l had
two very fair likenesses taken of me. 1 send one in you
and one to fly parents." Moore having said the pictures
were taken by a stratagem, there was his own letter in which
he said to Lady Tichborne, " Mr. Tichborne dress ,ui as a
sailor I prevailed on him to get his likeness taken l.y Rigby,
the photographist. I must really say I pressed II to much
to have then) taken." These letters, when in the wituess-box,
he could give no explanation of.
The Attorney-General, In continuation, went on to review
the proceedings before the China). Commission and in the
Melipilla case and at lour o'clock the Court again ad-
journed.

On Wednesday, after a letter signed "Arthur Orton " had
been read, which the Attorney General had called for to to
prefaced, he proceeded to deal with further letters of the
Melipilla correspondence. First he adverted to the letters ,
of Don Pedro Castro, in which he referred to a statement .
that had been made as to Arthur Orton, whom they had
known was the sell of a London butcher, and had been
sent to sea for the benefit of his health The writer
added that the mistake probably arose from his (the
claimant. having B4ill that his father was "Chancellor"
to the Owen, the words which signified " chancellor" and
" botcher" being very similar in Spanish. The learned gmn
Homan added that there was some slight foundation for
Arthur Orton boasting that his father was butcher to the
Queen because his father had at one time had a contract for
supplying meat to Chelsea Hospital. This would furnish
some slight ground for the boasting that had taken place,
and he might have imagined that this gave sonic degree of
importance to his father. The Royal butler and the Royal
server were to old times important personages, but his
learned friend (Mr. Hawkins) reminded him that to imagine
an importance attaching to the man who supplied meat to
Chelsea was like that of attaching great importance to ene
of her Majesty's beefeaters. (Laughter.)
The Attorney-General continuul his examination of the
Chili evidence taken upon the Commission, much of which
he read at length ; and at four o'clook the Court again ad-
journed.

THE POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS.
The hints contained in the following letter, which
has been sent to Thc Times for piiblication may be
suggestive to those who have the intereA of the
working-classes at heart :
At the Into meeting of the goclety of Arts, Mr. Bartley,
in his admirable paper on the means open for saving Mr old
age, laid stress on the fact that the working-classes do not,
as a rule, avail themselves sufficiently of the (Merriment
provident institutions that have been devised for tinge
benefit. Many persons, doubtless, attribute this fact
to the alleged improvidence of the lower orders, and
affirm that if the desire to save existed to such an extent
as to produce what is known to economists as an "effective
demand '' for provident institutions, the Post Office system
would supply all that is requisite for poor depositors.
' Without going into the truth or falsehood of the first allega-
tion, will you allow me to point out two leading debit,ts in
the Post Office Savings Banks, which account very largely
for the comparatively small use that is made of them by the
great nutes of the people 1 Like many other institution. in-
tended for the hero-fit of the workingicleeses, these banks
have, I fear, been founded hpon an insufficient knowledge of
the habits of those for whose use they were intended. Their
unit of deposit is not the people's unit of exchange, and their
hours of business are not the people's hours for attending to
their private affairs
1. With regard to the unit of depot. Only whole shil-
lings are allowed to be deposited. This morning, at the
Eastern District Post Office, I noticed a depositor bringing
half-a-crown to he added to her account of course, the
official in charge had to return her the odd sixpence, and
this he did, to her evident disappointment and surprise.
Whether the reason for this rule he a supposed arithmeti-
cal inability on the part of the Post Office clerks. I know riot;
but, considering that odd pence may be withdraws, and that
pence and halfpence enter into accounts in the shape of Mer-
est, it seems, indeed, strange that pence may not be deposited
when, moreiiver, iii. borne in mind that it is ioily on even
pounds that Interest runs, it would seem that to receive the
extra pence would beetilee being • eouvenience to depositors,
be an actual gain to the Savings Bank Department. And
this might be done while still retaining the chilling all the
minium of deposit ; though 1, for one, should advocate
throwing wide open the doors of the State Savings Banks,
and receiving those pence which the experience of penny
banks shows will, where the opportunity in offered them, he
saved by the very poorest, with the most belie.. results,
Our national inconsistency when we preach provulenee is
very striking we grant a man Id, of relief at the Si at
Relieving Office, while we decline to ree.eive 7d. of his eavings
at the State Bank.
2 The second defect—via., the unsuitability of the hoere
during which MI mey may lie deposited at the savings bee.
—is also a pregnant bauee of their failure. Between 10 a.m.
and 4 p m every working man Is engaged in earning hie
livelihood. The "The " loeings bent" opens wide Its gates
to hifn as he returns home at night with his wages in his
pocket, bin the doors of the savings banks are last closed
against him.
Now. I am confident that no benefit club Inc trades society,
or other institution which is popular among the working
classes, could exist for a single day if suoti were It. funda-
mental rules if It refused to look at the peace, and trans
toted its bueiness before four o'clock.
Need we wonder that, with these cardinal defects, the
Government provident institution. are not as popular as
t they might bet I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
1166117 ND W. ROLIOI4I.
66, PhilpotiSrloS, 1, Feb. S.