The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-14 00:00:00

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...0 bad "runaway loom in,rne awl enlisted,' and Ira; then
hews, bought • lit Est.d toot "strictly In n tenement at
home until be left Eloaland in Noveorber " (1852) whereas,
soil the Lord Catel J usgeo, I:. krr left F.n :laud In Marou,
1-53, and it wee (lets who had left &Inland in Novembwr,
^Mkt --pees IltabillMlM had been proved by too 'attn./re,
and hart been lett by Gibbee to La iy Tlebbome, and were
re leered to Is her subarTient letters; yet the defendant,
on cross-examination, dented mating them, thonsb Gibes
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and Roger cuuld not have known even It it bad been, beans e
his mother bed not become Lady ttchborne stall until alter
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ONK HUNDRED AND 2EVENTY-SIXTH DAY.
tOn Tare-lay] the Lead Cue! Justice, continning his revleW
of the defeadmit's life arid eeriest+ while Mill at Sednee.
drew the attention of the jury to what he descrioed as
" the local remake, le floc I meet in the cou,se Of the case,"
'the "statutory decleratt, ne made by the defendant at
Si duty, deelsrine that he left lengistul In the Jessie Male,
th the 25th est .ecovemater, 1,52, tut toeing the date at with
Arthur Orion 1,3 Loeepu for Hobart Town, and the Jeettie
being the .elp en weich he came home from South
America. It would be, said the Lel Cala Justice, for
the j ry to ensider whether tt was morally p isP le
that Rigor Tichborne ever could have made sues • state-
ment—tie, we lett England in 51 sten, iseta for France,
sating fens Havre for South America, ' and the
Jae& lid or being a ship unknown to him. use
cend ince statements as these be reconciled with the
theory of the identity ef the defendant with Roger Tech-
borne? On the other hood, these dates and names would
eat urally an,i easily occur le Arthur Orton, while they could
ffot Donnie MeV occurred to Roger Tichbon., who would
well know in November, 1552, he was Minting at Upton, in
Dorutehire • Cole thus was eseyexplanalleu of tele which
thejury could adopt, It was impoesinle to Avon the conclusion
'that these were the monocle°. of Arthur Once, and not
eel Ruse, Tickbeesee. The Lied Chief Justice uoticed the
letter of the defendant, in reply to one trim the Dowager.
not forthcoming, hut In which it appeared that she had
not recognised Ids handwriting ; and he pointee out
the differences of style anti spelling In the defendant's
-tie as compared with Roger's former lettere, remark-
at this, In his view, was one of the mot Important
of evidence In the our. The Lied Chi .f .1 ustice
on to notice the defendants answer to Mr. Turvllle,
old friend of the family, at Sydney that his mother
As a large, etout woman, Instead of which she was ex-
Aemely thin—lndeed, "leanness itself " and being asked
where ne was In May, 1853, he answered In Dorsetehlre,"
weaveas he was then In his barrack. In Dublin. if, therefore,
as Gibhes had stated, Mr. Turvele had really acknowledge-1
the defendant ou these grounds, he was clearly wrong and
had takes • very foodsh part in the matter ; hut his own
letter to Lady Tichborne gave a very different ac-
count, and elechdened may conviction or belief of his
own. Then Glebes had stated that the defendant
knew a stereoscopic view of Paris when he saw it, a .d
even pointed out a particular part of it Yet tile de.
feet' a it nad toil him ne had le ft Pule at the early age of
11 loners.. R ger was the. e until he was liii, and the name
of the place was at the back of the "slide." witch tote
defendant might have seen elsewhere. Then the dsfi udent
had, he said, the ichborne crest, which, however, was
to tte seen is the Baroretage or the Ille,trated .Ihadon
Noted The Lord Chief Justice went On tO Potion ti e tact
teat °Mee, before the deletelant left Sysleey, got him to
Ave him I tile for VA°, with • promise of £5OO more—making
I,l,ooo,—that is, for libeling loins his mother, who °it her
part was to pay a reward for finding her ton ; and he
then noticed Gibbose final letter to the D o wager declar-
ing his le alive certainty that the defendant was her long-
lost ton, "in optic of the discreptumses between his state-
Ments and hers." How, said the Lord Chief Justice,
Gibbet could, "In spite of these discrepancies," en-
tertian such a better was quite tnexpecable, unless, Indeed,
" the wish was father to the thought," and the eagsr desire
to retell.e the promleed reward had blinded his perception.
and Warped his judgment. Commenting see passages in the
Dewage letters that "the believed him to be her son not-
withstandlitg his statemmts so differed from hers," the
Lord Chief Justice renoarked on her evident ninety to
get over difficulties, and her learning desire to roe Idle and
recover her long-lost son. Commenting on the explauatiou
she suggested as to his extraordinary statements, that he
"hail gone through vs much that his teeas were confused as
in a drtans," the Lord Chief Justice observed that this ex-
planation—which would account for anything—was suggested
by her before she had seen him or knew anything about him
lie particularly vented out the absur :By of 'em suggeation
that Roger might have mistaken rheumatism fur it. Vitus's
e,ance ; and her whole course he said, illustrated the
tendency lo menkind to believe what they wished to believe,
which the Roman satirlet so many centnries ego had de'
scribed, '' (lewd volunt Amines, id facile credunt.' Noticing
her answers as to toe brown mark," which the defendant
had tomtit:mad as a proof of his identity, " I do not recollect
is, and I don't believe 1 ever saw it," the Lord Chief Justice
asked if It was likely that It could have existed wieseut her
knowing of It? Then, as to the Brighton card oase, as to
which she wrote. " I do not men i to say anything about
as I think it might turn people agalut him," the Lord
Chief Justice pointed out that the answer was ambigueue,
and rather Implied that Lady Tichborne had po knowledge
or recollection of any such matter, because if it had
occurred the defendant's recollection of it c mid hardly
have "turned people against eine" where,l tf it had not
occurred, and the defendant's statement about it seas as un-
I unded as others, then it would tend very much Indeed to
"turn people against him." The Lord Chief melee went
on to notice the cliches...a under which the defendant
hid met with Bogie, the old serve ut ol the family at Ss dney.
He observed that he did Oct believe Boole was a co-con.
epirator, bra conscious abettor of an Imposture. The D mune
had written to the defendant about gogle that he was at
dney and that he was otelte link: the defendant kuew he
was there, for In one of his letters he said he had been in-
qdring atter him ; he knew him to be a black, and know
ohn to be elderly, and he saw stub a man waiting at the
hotel for him, and had shreweiress en, ugh to rues. he wee
Bogle, and addressed him by his name, which of course
',neurally Impressed Bogle, and thus led him to boleros in
his lomat y. The Lord Chief Justice, however, went on
to say that it was impossible to place implicit reliance on
his testimony, es all his hoees and interests were bound up
1,, the delesooante cause, and therefore, if over a man had
been disposed to steal hie conscience in his evidence, Bogle
waa 1,. that poatt [on ; and therefore his evidence must be
subjected to severe scrutiny, home things in his testimony
were certainly incorrect, as that the defendant had noon-
Honed Mr. Goateed to blue: whereas he had (Ist before
ateted that he did not know who had hero hie lather's
estate agent, and at the former trial Bogle said teat
he hlmaell first mentioned Gosford t o the, defendant; so
the e. hod/sot hail asked him, he said, after his wife: but
(as Me. Justice Lush ponited out) Bogle's Met wife died
itefore Rog,. left Eiglane, and he married his second alter
Roger bad am., so that Roger woull not have knows' he
had a wife living. Ilat Bugle having been brought to be-
lieve in the defendaut naturally talked with Mee Ind the
defen lent derived from Olin Lena information as to Ohms
relating to the famUy, though, as it turned one intormation
Inexact and sometimes errmeous. Thu. the Lord Chief
J ustioe noticed that the defendant had obtainel from It ogle
a leaf out of a book he had, with a view of Upton, a like-
ness of Sir E iware Doughty, end the Tiehborne and
Doughty crest, and had at once made use of these things,
and had written I.lsely about them, pretending that he had
a view of the "Hermitage &Ade," of which Bogle had
never heard, and that his uncle "bought" Upton, which
was quite untrue as it came to him from Miss Doughty by
bequest. This, said the Lord Chief Justice, was a blunder
which he could not imagine Roger Tlcheorne making; for
the truth must have been well known to him as he had waged
along contest ale:obi/11=11y shout Upton, and the contest had
aeiss to from the fact that Upton was settled and entailed
under Miss Doughty's, will. But hew the defendant canto
to make the blunder was obvious enough, for Bogle had sup-
posed the estate was bought by Sir Edward and bed told the
defendant so. Reviewing the evidenee as to the defendant's
knowledge, while he was In Australia, of the history of the
family, or the antecedents of Roger, she Lord Chief Juetice
pointed out how on some subjects there was total Ignorance
and on others a mixture of Imperfect knowledge with
surd error., and thus that the Imo *ledge could generally
be tracee to some sources of information. Thus he said
that he was born In Dorsetshire, though Ms psrents lived
its Pails ; and while he knew ,it Ole °tail of t oui sisters
who had dled in infancy, he appeared to know dothing of a
brother who was next In ouccession to the estate,. Ile knew
there were estates, bathe old not know where they were or
how they had been acquired. He said that he had had Sc,
Vituse dance, which E.o.ee never had, and he ignored the
whole of Roger'. life at Stouithuret or the army. feed he ob.
nerved that ignorance of things which Roger must have known
was far mere Important than knowledge, for knowl, dge
might have been acquired ty infermstion. No doubt know-
ledge shight also be lost by failure of memory ; and as to
that, the question was whether the things not remembered
were likeey to be forgotten. But failure of memory would
not aces-sot for positive statements unfounded In fact ; Le
lostafice, as to St Vitus's dance, which Roger Dever had.
Commenting on the evidence es to the gross Ignorame of
the defendant as displayed on his voyage to thle country, the
le re Chief Justice emphatically declared that, looking at
the letters and the language of toe defendant, it was utterly
Imponittle he could be Roger Tschborue, unless twelve years
had sufficed euttrely to destroy and erase all that Anger Tick-
borne had been. Rorer spoke French well facility nod did
not speak Sr shish, bull the delete:lent spoke Spanhih and was
Ignorant of French. Roger Tichborne Ind no acqusintauce
with Wapping, where the early life of Arthetr Orton had
keen peened, but the defendant on his arrival in the
Thames began to show a knowledge of Wapplug and of
Wapping people, such as Arthur Orton might have 'Mown.
Then come the memorable visit t e Wapping. ween the de-
fendant showed such • perfect knowledge of the family and
friend. of Arthur Urine, mill at last, &Menthe' being that
excited, his features were looked at, and he was pronounced
to be an Orton himself. "N"," he said, "hot I was ai
Wapping fourteen years ago." that is, in kite, "arch
was just when Arthur Orton was last there,
while certainly Rogsr Tichborne never was tune at at,
Why should Roger Tichborne have gone to Was plug And
how could he have had all this Intimate knowledge of the
people there 1 Again, the defendant wrote a letter to
°dote. sisters' in the name of Orton, signing it " Arthur
Orton," and aetlxing to it the presto mark which was to
been seen In Orton's letters ; ape then leeving r Orton's
sisters uoder a feigned name, as if he had brought it over
from Auettalia. lie &heisted, also, having sant to Orton's
sister, likenesses of his coin wife anti child as those of
Arthur Ortotes wife and child. He wrote, further, under
the feigned name, inquiring after Miss Loder, to whom
Arthur Orton had been attached. Then there was the
letter of one of Orton'. elders (moot forthcoming, but referred
to in one of the d, fendent's in answer toll), in which It sp.
peered that she had supposed him to be her brother Arthur.
these letters the defendant had dente., and had afterwards
admitted to be his. The natural question arose, said tkie
Lord Chief Justice, why Its 'ger Ilcubcrue should have re-
sorted to all this artifice and frand—the forge. letter, and
the feignect hand, and the false signature ? tlow could all
this be accounted for by any of the reasons assigned by the
defendant, or any of the various and confiding theories
suggested by his cc tinsel, and never suggested by himself,
and which were entirely irreconcilable with the facts, and
also entirely felled to account for the devices resorted to
for the purpose of concealment, and equally fatted to ens
plain his denial of these facts to his friends, and the letter*
no wrote to them about Orton and Wapping, as if
they were utterly unknown to him? How far was all
thhil Consistent with the defendant's being Roger 1 ichborne
Then there came the seclusion at Gravesend and the secret
visit to Crest ord, and the drive round Tichborne-houee,
and the message for Bogle, and his visit to the house
at the instance of the delendsut, trite a particular direc-
tion from him to take notice what picteres were there.
Such information, again, would be useful to the de-
fendant, and there was reason to believe that n must
have gitnn tre d,fendant some other infermation than thie
Whilst, the delehdant was at Alreaferd, one of Roger'.
cousins (Mrs. Greeetwomi), residing In tile neighb nub° d,
MA him a kind message, inviting tom to c.m, and are
Ler, but he old not go, amid his explanatt en was that his
mother had told him not to see any one until he saw her,
l'hen why dud be not go over at once to see her Bst the
defendant neither went over to see his supposed mother
nor did he disclose himself to any other of his supposed
relatives. Was this a course which it was natural for
Roger Tichboroe, under such circumstance., to pursue
Why shauld he spend time in a secret stay at Gravesend,
and then in a secret Welt to Alresford, and then in a further
stay at Gravetend? What was the motive of the visit to Alms-
ford ?Of this he had given different explanations—a desire
"to see the dear old place," soda deficiency in money; lest
Onto the latter, he had funds for his visit, to Ain't ord and
Gravesend, and the Dowager, through her private attorney,
WM In communication with him for the very purpose of pro-
velem him with funds if he was In want of them ; and
as to his desire e to see the dear old place," surely a far
stronger feeling would hove trod him—if he really was
Roger lactiborne—te go and see his dear old mother, who
was eagerly waiting his enteral, and was counting the heurs
until he appearee. If, then, he was Roger Tlcheonte,
the Motive for his delay was inexplicable ; hut if he was
not Roger Tlchhonse, then, indeed, the motive was per-
feetly appareet, for It would hems been dangerbus for him
to present himself to his supposed mother before he bee ac-
quired some Information about the family house sue toe
amily estate.

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On Wednewfay the 177th day of the trial), for the eon-
v.ol nee of jarymen who wlthed to vote at the Midatees
olutiou, the cowl did not sit until lulf.pui tau o'clock.