The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13 00:00:00

Tfl STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

The defendant is described in the calendar in the !
following terms :--Thomas Castro, alias Roger Charles
Doughty Tichborne, Bsronet, aged 42, of no occupa-
tion, and of imperfect education, committed by Lord
Chief Justice Bovill for wilful and corrupt perjury.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday afternoon,
the Grand Jury presented a ttue bill which they had
found against Thomas Castro, otherwise Roger Charles
Doughty Tichborne, baronet, otherwise Anthill. Orton,
for perjury. They also presented a true bill against
the seine person for forgery.
The averments of perjui y contained in the indict-
ment. as was afterwards ascertained, turn, first, upon
the affitlavits made by the prisoner in the Chancery suit;
and, sec ,ndly, upon portions of his evidence on the
trial in the Court of Common Meas. Under the first
category perjury is assigned on his affidavit' to the effect
that he was the eldest son of the late Sir James Francis
Doughty Tichborne, tenth baronet, of Tichleirne, de-
ceased ; that he hail resided in Paris froga his birth until
1815 awl was then brought over to England and placed
at the Jesuits' College at Stonyhurst ; that he was
appointed cornet or lieutenant in the 6th Dragoon
Guards, Carbineet s, and joined the regiment in
October, 18411, at 1 tublin. and remained on duty with
it and retired from it in February, 1853; that in March
of that year he took a passage in a ship bound for
Valparaiso, where he arrived in due courle, and till
April, 1851, travelled from place to plane in various
parts of South America. and that at the port of Rio he
took his passage in the Bella for New York. So much
as respects the charge of perjury assigned on the
' prisoner's affidavits. Pei jury is also averred on portions
of the evidence he gave on the trial—namely, that in
which he deposed that be was Royer Charles Tichborne,
the eldest son of James Francis Tichborne, Esq., after-
wards baronet ; that he hail resided in Paris film his
birth until 1845; that a person named Chatillon
(meaning Adrian Chatillon) had, been his tutor; that
in 1845 he came over from rrance to England to attend
the funeral of Sir Henry Tichborne; that he had been
a student at the Jesuits' Colle.fe at Stonyhurst ; that
ke had been an officer in Her Majesty's Army ; that
in July or August, 1852, he had seen Lady Doughty
and her dawhter in the drawiog-raim at Tichborue-
house ; that in July or August, 1852, he had seduced
Katherine Mary Elizabeth Doughty; that after the
2',2nd of June, 1852, and before March, 1853, he had seen
Katheiine Mary Elizabeth Doughty; that he had se-en
Miss Hales in the presence of her mother or her aunt at
Canterbury; that he had been at the house of Captain
and Mrs. Washington Hibbert ; that he hail never been
to Lloyd's ; that be was not Arthur Orton, sou of
George Orton, of Wapping ; that he had never been at
Wapping before 5866; that he bad never gone by the
name of Arthur Orton ; that he did not leave England
in a verse! called the Ocean in April, 1848, and did not
arrive at Valparaiso in the °now in November of that
year ; that he had not been at any time, between 1848 and
1851, at Melipilla and Chili ; that he did not in 1851 come
back from Chili to England in a vessel called the Jessie
Miller ; that be had not seen Mary Ann Loader before
1867, and had not kept company with her in 1851;
that he had never written letters to her ; that he did
not go out to Hobart Town in a vessel called the
Middleton, of which a person named Storey was the
captain ; that he had not seen Elizabeth Jewry, or
Mary Tredgett, and Margaret Ann Jewry on more
than one occasion before the trial on which he gave
evidence; and that he had not in 1859 at Castehnaine,
in the colony of Victoria, been charged in the name
of Thomas Castro, jointly with Arthur Orton, with
horse-stealing.
The indictment again tt the prisoner for forgery will
turn upon the now famous bonds in circulation bear-
ing his signature.

. On Wednesday morning, shortly after the learned
judges had taken their seats on the bench, the prisoner,
Thomas Castro, alia, Arthur Orton, alias Sir Roger
Charles Doughty Tichborne, was placed at the bar.
He walked confidently to the front of tho dock, and
slightly bowed to the Court.
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Mr. Archibald represented the Grown; Mr. Montagu
Williams appeared for the defendant.
Mr. Avery then read the indictments that had been
foiled by the gram' jury. The first charged the de-
fendant that he had, in &certain cult in Chancery, falsely
cud coiruptly sworn on an affidavit that he was the
eldest son of Sir Junes Doughty Tichborne, the tenth
baronet of that name ; that he had been educated in
Paris and had been placed in a de,uit's college •, that
he was afterwards brought to England and that he
was appointed a cornet in Her Majesty's regiment the
iith Dragoon Guards, and that he remained in that
regiment until the year 1853. That he afterwards
sailed from hingland to Valparaiso, and that h• subse-
imently travelled in different parts of South America,
aud at length took a passage on board a vessel called
the Bela, that this vessel was wrecked, and thnt he
was saved and We; taken to Melbourne and that he
afterwards travelled al out to various parts of Australia.
The prisoner, in reply to the question wlubler he
pleaded guilty or not guilty to this charge, replied in a
firm, distinct tone," I ant not guilty:"
Mr. Avery then read the second indictment, which
alleged that upon a certain trial at Nisi Prius, beim e
Lord Chief Juatice Bovril, he falsely swore that he
was not reie Arthur Ortou. The same queetion was
put to him whether he was guilty or net guilty of this
charge?
The prisoner again replied, "I am not Guilty."
The third indictment charged the prisoner with
having forged the signature of Roger Charles Doughty
Tionborne to a certain sired in indemnity for the pay-
ment of money. The deed was described in another
count of the indictment as a mortgage debenture.
The prisoner again replied, in a tone of calmness and
apparent indifference, " I am not guilty."
Mr. Montagu Williams said he was instructed in
this case to defend the prisoner, and he had to remind
the Court in the first instance that the indictment
against the prisoner had only been returned by the
Grand Jury on the previous day, and that so far as
the charge of forgery wigs concerned, the prisoner had
no idea that such a charge would have been preferred
against him. The question of bail would now probably
arise, as the Crown had not given any intimation
whatever as to the period when the trial was likely
to take place.
Mr. Archibald said that no application, as he under-
stood, had been made to the Solicitor to the Treasury
upon the subject
Mr. Avory said that a writ of certiorari had just been
placed in his hand removing the whole of the indict-
ments into the Court of Quernie Bench,
Baron Pleasby said that under these circumstances
this Courted now no jurisdiction in the matter.
Mr. Molitagu Williams said that was no doubt the
case, and the result would be that the trial could not,
under any circumstances, take place until the sittings
after term, which would be in June. Ender these cir-
eumstancen, he was anxious on the part of the defendant
to know what course was intended to be taken by the
Crown in the matter.

Mr. Archibald said that it was impossible at present
to give any information upon the subject.
Baron Cleasby nail he could do nothing in the matter,
and the case would take the usual course.
Mr. Avory suggested that all that could be done at
present was for the Court to make an order that the
prisoner should be detained in custody until he was dis-
charged by the slue course of law.
An order to that effect was accordingly made, and
the prisoner was removed from the bar.
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The proceedings appeared to excite very great in-
terest, and the Court was crowded while the prisoner
was standing in the dock.

The "Claimant" has been visited almost daily by his
solicitor, Mr. Gorton. He is said to have been all
along very cheerful as to his prospects, and to be in no
degree reticent as to his case (remarks The Times). The
result of his appeal for funds to enable him to conduct
his defence, made through The Tinusandotherjournals,
has been the receipt so far of between £7OO and £BOO,
th amount being mainly contributed in small sums,
the dcnors in some instances describing themselves
as lovers of fair-play and justice, sufferers by
the common law, enemies of the Jesuits, and per-
sona who object to the Attorney-General's conduct
on the late trial. One sum is subscribed to help
the Claimant to secure "a fair trial before an impartial
judge," and other amounts were collected by workmen
sd such like, including £3 from 106 cabdrivers. Of
the larger donations, £lOO was sent to Mr. Streeten
anonymously by a lady. £lO by Mies R., £2O by Lord
Rivers, £52 10s. by Captain Foxtrin, EN by Lady
Frankfort-de-Montmorency, and £lO by the Hon.
Mrs. Preston Bruce. The trustees of the Defence
Fund are Lord Rivers, Mr. Onslow, MY., Dr. Att-
wood, and Mr. Streeteu.

another difficulty. It was a matter of fact that even if
the villagers were perfectly free they could not support a
pastor. Support a pastor! Poor souls, they-could not
support themselves. The condition of our agricultural
labitirers was most shameful, and he ( Mr. Sliurgeou) had
not rejoiced in anything since he was born so much
as when he heard they had begun to stir and to strike.
lie wondered they had not struck long ago, when there
were such cases as men having to expend the whole
amount of their week's wages in bread for their fami-
lies. It was time tic-re was some alteration somewhere.
No doubt if wages were raised farmers would complain
they were pinched. Well, the farmers must pinch the
landlords. He (Mr. Spurgeon) had not a great deal of
sympathy for the latter, for there were numbers who
had their thousands of acres and who cvuld stand a
little sinieezing without being reduced to abject poverty
thereby. Negro slavery was nothing to the treatment
of the labourers, and it ought to be denounced byevery
honest man and earnest Vogue.

MOVING A CHINTNEY.—WO (Builder) learn
from an American newspaper that the great chimney
of the Cabot mill at Brunswick, Maine, has been
moved 201 t., to allow of the enlargement of the mill.
The work was done by a process similar to that by
which ships are launched, the chimney being slid along
on greased planks. The chimney is 701 t. high, and
nearly Bft. square at the base, and it was moved, the
floes connected, and the fires started M eight hoursaud
a half.
M. ELISEE RECLUS.—Those who have taken
part in the efforts made by the English friends of M.
Reelus for his liberation will be glad to relic' the
following extract horn a letter written by him from
Zurich on the 18th of last month, says the Exa miner :
"I am able at last to tell you that lam froc. After har-
ing been kept for a long time in prisons, and sent from on.•
prison to another, heft Paris for Ponta-tier, escorted by two
police edema. who left me ou tho free soil of Switzerland.
While breathing and enjoying the pure air of liberty. I tin
not forget those to whim. I am indebted for my freedom
Having been claimed by so many Englishmen as • student of
science, lif work tem more than ever to show them my
gratitude by my works and deeds."
VOLCANOES OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.—The
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Honolulu Gazette learns from persons who visited the
volcano, on a recent trip to Hilo, that although there
are no lakes of lava in Kilauea there are numerous
cones which are of themselves active volcanoes. Some
of them have pretensions of no mean character, inde-
pendent of the awe inspiring scenery which surrounds
them. Some of these cones—small mountains in them-

selves—are constantly emitting from their cavernous
mouths molten lava, whioh is projected into the air
above the sun.mit of the cone 150 or 200 feet. The
exhibition now presented by Pele is said to be magniti.

cent in the extreme.
METAL MORE ATTRACTIVE. All Judy's

Radical contemporaries to a man have made the 're-
mark, as to Mr.Disraelftivisit to Lancashire, that "he
has won golden opinions." Just so, What would
they have? All the braes has been monopolized by
the opposite party.—Judy.
POST OFFICE SAVINGS-BANES.—In the ten
years from the commencement of post-office savings-
hanks on the 16th of September, 1861, to the 16th of
September, 1871, there were 14,555,525 deposits made,
amounting (with interest added to the end of 1570) to
£44,198,744. The fuither amount of interest which had
become doe in 1871 was about £238,000. In the ten
years there were 4,843 966 withdrawals, the sums with-
drawn amounting t 0228,044.510, leaving £16,154,204,
the balance due to depositors in September, 1871. The
amount paid over to the National Debt Commissoners
up to September, 1871 (with interest credited thereon),
is £15,972,281 and there remained a balance tube paid
to them amounting to £211,975 being chh fly in bankers'
bills having some days to run. No each was received
from the Commissioners for the payment of with-
drawals, but £30,052 ems transferred by then, for the
posbeffice savings-banks to other savings-banks.
O.INTAGIOUS DISEASES ACTS. —A Parliamen-
tary return has been issued giving statistics of the
number of common women coming within the provi-
sions of the Contagious Diseases Acts, since the time
they were first put in operation until the 31st of
December, 1571, in seventeen towns to which the
statute is applicable. The number of women regis-
tered since the Acts came into operation is 11,995. Of
these 5,324 had left the respective districts, 578 had
married, 907 had entered homes, 2,571 were restored to
their parents, and 201 had died, making a total of
9,584 who had been removed from the register. The
number of registered women at the close of the year
was, therefore, 2,411, as against 4,852 when the Acts
were first put in operation. In the case of 128,938
woinen subjected to surgical examination, no disease was
found, while 20,780 were suffering from malady. The
number of cases discharged from hospital free from
disease, in which the women still continued to follow
their former pursuits, was 18,072, while 212 were dis-
charged as incurable, and 541 were proceeded against
by information before the magistrates.
SEARCHING FOR THE SEARCHERS !—The New
York Herald announces that the chief of the Herald
expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone has been lost
somewhere among the jungles of Africa. So now there
is another man to search for.

A LONG TIME AGO. Disquieting rumours
of the existence of a "King of Ram" (in connectim
with a paper read at a recent meeting of the Asiatic
Society) having reached the ears of the "National Al-
liance," that body caused inquiries to be made on the
subjc•ct, and were relieved to learn that whatever bane-
ful influence such a dissolute monarch may have
exeicised on society, it was confined to the Eleventh
Century of Era.—Punch.
WANTED, A COOK !—The following advertise-
ment appeared in last Thursday's Times:-
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Required, by a gent near to Bromley, in Kent, a Cook, on
plain cooking plainly intent. She need not make entremets,
le.uces, or jellies, That cause indigestion and irritate b -lies ;
Etwugh if she's able to serve up a dinner That won't make
her master a dyspeptic grinner. If asked to bake bread, 110
excuse she must utter; Must be able to churn, and to make
melted butter. If these she can do-eke boil a potato, And
cook well a chop with a sauce emrd tomato, The writer won't
care to apply further test That slice up to her work, and
knows all the nat. She must be honest, industrious, sober,
and clean, Neat In hcr garb, not a highly dress'd quvan : And
must be content, whatever her age Is, With sugar and tea, and
£2O wages.-Addiess W. G. E , post office, Bromley, Kent,
A NOVI " BALANCE OF COMFORT."—At your
Bankeen.-Punch.
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A GIANT'S WATCH.-MT. Streeter, of Conduit-
street. Boyd-street. London, has just completed the
nimulacture of a gigantic gold watch for Captain M.
V. Bates, the Kentucky giant. It is of such Brobdig-
nagian proportions that it is worthy of special notice.
Technically it is described as an English lever keyless
hunting repeater, and is of the highest order of work-
manship throughout. The case is made of 18. carat
gold, weighing eight ounces, and is superbly engraved
with emblematic insignia, representing the goddess of
liberty upholding the national flag, on which is conspi-
cuously displayed the stars and stripes.
ALL THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. —The
London Mirror of last week records five anonymous
donations of £l,OOO eachto metropolitan charities, anti
is in a state of great admiration for the generous
donors. And very properly too— for this sort of thing
will bear reflecting on.—Judo.
A MORAL FOR SPORTSMEN !—The Vienna
Correspondent of the Lady Telegraph writes
have now a sporting anecdote for you, to which I beg to
call the attention of all the 31 F. H.'s of England. The Hun-
garian Count Keglevich was returning last week from hunt-
ing—otherwise /a chase—at Peterwardein ; he must have
had a severe day, for he had killed six foxes. These he tied
up In a bunch by the hind legs, threw them across his horse's
loins, then jumped up and jogged home. suddenly his hack
—a ;Inlet old favourite—bolted, charged a wall, gave the
Count a regular collar-boner, and rushed off like mot the
foxes all swingiog ab out her. But elle was not lunatic—it
turned out that one of the foxes was not dead, had suddenly
fixeol its Imes into the mare's thigh, Roil hung on like grim
death. Moral : Never kill six foxes a day.
FOREIGN TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES.—The
following statement of exports and imports for the
calendar year 1871 is furnished by the Bureau of
Statistics. The values are all expressed in specie :
Imports of merchandise, 572,509,314 dols. ; imports of
specie and bullion, 17,399,415 dole. ; total imports,
589,908,729 dole. Exports, domestic merchandise,
445,542,607 dols. • exports, foreign merchandise,
' 14,789,007 dole. • ts;tal exports, merchandise, 400,331,614
dols. Exports, domestic bullion and specie, 65,632,342
dole. ; exports, foreign bullion and specie, 12.009,128
dols. ; total exports, bullion and specie, 77,641,470 dole.
Total exports, 537,973,054 dols ; excess of Imports,
51,935,645 dole. If we leave out of view imports and
exports of foreign specie and bullion, and regard ex-
ports of domestic specie and bullion as we would grain,
cotton,eor any other product of domestic industry, the
account will stand as follows :—Total imports of mer-
chandise, 572,509,314 dols ; total exports of merchan-
dise, 460,331,614 dols. ; exports' domestic specie and'
' bullion 65,632,342 dols. ; total exports, 525,963,956
dots. ; adverse balance, 46,545,356 dols, Th 6 foreign
specie and bullion accounts stands as follows : -Im-
ports, 17,31,9,415 ; exports, 12,009,128 dols. ;
excess of imports, 5,390,287 dols.
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. This month the
Women's Suerage Journal entreats its friends who have
been so eagerly and successfully cultivating fresh fields
not to lose sight of the necessity for gathering in the
harvest of opinions already ripe, and of bringing these
to boar in the shape of petitions to the House of Com-
mons during the coming month of April. It adds
"Last year the number of signatures to petitions in
favour of the measure sent in before the second read-
ing was 185,000. I.lp to the present time the number
of persons who have signed petitions this session labs
considerably short of this number.
A Piton:BBoß OF MAGIC! A droll account is
given of the extraordinary way in which a professor of
magic has announced his arrival in St. Petersburg. A
distinguished-looking gentleman enters a hairdresser's
shop on the Nevsky to be shaved. Monsieur Philippe,
the master, not being at home, one of his men under-
take% that anxious and delicate task. The gentleman
sits down, the operator tucks in the inevitable napkin,
lathers the hirsute chin, carefully strops the chosen
razor, and, with his bands jerked out of reach of the
impending cull, is going to begin operations, when, to
his amazement, he discovers that he is about to shave
his man with a carrot ! The stupefied friseur stares at
his customer, stares at the carrot, then, throwing the
vegetable away, and silently picking out another razor,
again comes to the charge—with a cucumber ! The
" devil !" he cries aghast, when his master entering,
undeceives him as to the infernal character of his sub-
thy millressing the gentleman 88 M. le Professeur
Welle.
NOT GENERALLY KNOWN !-The Paris papers
are indulging in all kinds of pretty stories about the
Queen and Prince of Wales. The Arguer National ,
tells us the following, which is certainly not generally I
known amongst us:—
During his Royal Highness's Illness, a robust young man.
half countryman, half gentleman, was always remarked at
the clAteau Sandringham ; he was even admitted to the
patient's bedside, and the Prince appeared to be deeply at-
tached to him. Everybody was puzzled at the presence of
this stranger, whose IMMO and position were kept secret.
However, all has since been discovered, and here is
' the enigma explained. In mt. during the stay of the
Royal Family in the Isle of Wight, the Prince of Wales
kicked over a basket of shells which a boy was gathering.
The boy, red s ills rage, dared his Royal Highness to "dolt
again," and he w.oild see what he would get. The Prince
did dolt main, and the boy thereupon landed his fist npon
his loyal ilighnem's nose, giving him a pair of black eyes.
The Queen, on seeing the Prince, insisted upon knowing the
truth. •' You have only gut what you deserve," said tier
, Majesty, "and were you sot already sufficiently punished, I
r woubl punish you myself. I hope yau will always be served
r In the same way when you are guilty of such conduct." The
I Queen then sent for the boy's parents and offered to bring
a him up. The parents consented ; the bey haa grown up with
, the Prince of Wales, and Is now treated as his foster-brother
RATHER PLEASANT THAN OTHERWISO !—To
those about to commit suicide it is interesting to know,
on the authority of a Kansas murderer, who was
hanged, that that mode of departing this life is ex-
, treinely pleasant. The murderer in question, it is
, stated, was quite dead when he was " cut down" lobe
• operated upon by a scientific gentleman, who restored
I life by means of galvanism. The murderer's account of
the sensations of strangulation is as follows :—" Hang-
ing is rather pleasant than otherwise ; for, after the
first spasmodic struggle for breath, a delightful tick-
, ling sensation followed my veins to the tips of my
limbs. Consciousness seemed to lose itself very
, gradually, and for a time a portion of the brain s,emed
- to retain its vitality. The happiest moment of a life-
time was centred in a dream at that instant. From
thst moment until I found myself in the hands of
science I knew mt."