The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-07 00:00:00

HUNDRED AND SEVEN rY SECOND DkY.

The Lord Chief Justice lon Tries i pi continued hie review of
the Ito a d charier of It ger lacoborree, as disclosed in
nia I in,,, dean to he Owe of tile embark. hot oU bow
the Bella. He o diced tea' during toe wint.r of 1812-3
previews to his dewertnre from this country, Re ger pill
o t less than three visits to Paris to see his
parents—each visit of several days' duration, and the
brew-11 vidt taking up nearly three ween, whereas the
doter dant hod said he hail ouly been there • day or two.
11.deing Amen trim it eer's letters that his inteutioo in
mein* abroad was oily to see MuSh America and
atuslo.l., and then to come home through Europe, the
L rd Cr let Justice now followed him ite hi, travels In
atter h America, ',meth g out that there wan no trae iii
his letters of any visit to Mot, ilia, ant that the q le,tion of
•uch a vial, was one of the utmtst iroporton a to the Cabe.
Elora it *as, he esti, that the nistory , 1 the defendant Come
to contact with that of Arthur Orton, 'shorn he was as-
serted ii, ne, and In apparent cond•ct with that of Roger
Tic,horne, whom he profaned to-M.. For chile there was
no clouts, Itlaa Orton was at Meilpilla, aid the defendant
Find stated shot he wits there, the lettere of Roger Tint.
borne—though the accounts of tie travel+ he sent home
wore copious and taken from a journal he it p'—showed no
'race, (any vhstt to that pltece, still lent, s f err referred,
' of a visit of such a dulostiou as it tenet have been to enahle
him to form each a wide circle of acqualot*, ens as the
defendant app.. I to hove acquired there. Ou acmout
theretore, of toe importauce of the question, the Lord Chief I
Just:ce read al the letters of Roger written In South I
America wo as to enable the jury to judge whether the dates
they Mated admitted of the possireittly of a ',tan ii lidelipilla
(a place at some distance from Valpnraiso, obi ut mtriwey
between that city anti aan,lag ), and a visit as the defend-
ant admitted, or at 'ers, t tea days or a fortnight. The
Lord Chief Justice at the same tine pointed out to the
Joey that it they were satisfied that Roger never stayed at
tiallpilla, that ',old be de helve Realest the defendant's
identity with Roger, and ihougo not equally conclude° at
to his identity with Orton, would go a lon., way to este-
hilsh It. Ne tieing that while R -err was at Velparalao he
heard of the death of his uncle, Sir Edward Honesty,
weareby his father—already an aged mm—socceeded to
the baronetcy and the estates, and ho himeelf hename the
'mat heir, and entitled, its the meantime, to £1,600 • year,
the Lore, Chief Janice pointed out Rover', latest letters • roe
South America, his foulness for writing to hie relotlora MO
(rind,, toe copious accounts he sent than Of lila tr, vela, hit
prof-Maas to write to them lit future, his anxiety to hear from
tome, eepeciaily about Lady Doughty and his cousin ; and
the cite with which he gave directions as to the forwardlug
of het ors The Lord Chief Juetice also particularly pointed
out that Roger, in one of hie last lettere, desired to be
"hot tip" at she " Traveller's," anti spoke of coming home,
not. indeed, Immediately, but at some not remote period.
COP Lord Cold Justice then fol °lnd Rope oh hosed the
Bella, and described the story I file loss appareotly with
all on board. For 12 long yea., he said Roger then dint)
!Paled from view, to reappear again, unbar the etrammet
orcomstances, aZd he a form and thaw,. stein gely dif-
ferent. At the eud of that lons period, Oaring wince there
were no tidinge of him, sutideusy a man came from soma
pl.. In Australia and seserted himself to be the lons.,ost
doger Inatard of hastening to See hts relitlons, however, he
kept motostuotably sin if Dim them arid seemed to avoid
all who we re Mott able to (cog-lee him, if indeed ho were
Rose-, or to detect the impoeture if ha was not N.-Ither
did he dna ,ire ho A be hail e, nl9 to be saved teem the snick,
end, street go to my, those Ira fist sum yid him Diver
asked. H. kept the etre', of his rescue secret until in the
Cutlet 01 Chancery hn wm t °impelled to tell It, and than he
could not even give the name of the ship in which he
was rescued, sor of the ca 'rain who re. cued him. His
story, more, vet was that wimp he had term plotted up and
carried to Sieloou. net though be bad di diced who te was,
snit had linen owtteri on hoard ass a 'isms gentlemen in
torture and Cattily, yet tromeorately on Imilhor he heel ae-
cepted ernp'oymeht as a cm:lrma, and slaieghterer at 30...
wok and had remained in such einployures S fir years,
lodged In mean ions, 1.1 in the tr unit five and ass:chi-
t, with the loweat and yflot of m's, until an last he no.
came assistant in a butobet's shop at Wagga•Wraggit ! Yet
t re was sod thy least necessity for all (hi,, as ehe omelet.,
If his story were froe, could hove vouched for its trneh and
o awned him temporary tonne., and the post would soon
have brought him a renilion.ce from Hs hankers, Never-
thel sr, for a I these hag year,: R .ypr Tiahhorne m deed
in tram repulsive employments and with these d•gieding
aseocialee—associatlng even with bushranger', huthwas.
men, and triter., and this without even let nig his
fetidly and trlands know that he was who. down
to the time or his embarking on board the Bella, hal beets,
volt Constant correspondent and moat auton fi r newt
from horns—aud who, moreover. whatever his (sutte—
e., a,ways been a man of honour, aeuta,le ID character,
nod regardful of tote pr prtettte of Ilie Such a story, sato
inn Lied C lief Justice, if not aletdutely increnible, was
one which it wes oovlouely very d flliult to bailee°, mu t
be regarded with surpicion, and re er sir, d careful scrutioy.
~ucti • long absewe and silence certainly called for • aplana.
tiaa but rxe,l Ad 15100 defendant had nine to off and
all he +aid was that it had been his Wetmore. The Lord
Clete Just ce rt di ruled therm' US theories set up by the tie-
fondant's mauled to account tor it, pointing out that they all
awsurto it,,. intention on toe put of it ger lim-b rne which
earratedy hot poi existed le his mind at the t roe he Spirit
on board ih Belie, and It wae for the jury ti c metier how
Shoe rn,re f Let of nis being shipwrecked could have altered
all hi, preVtoUs neten tens and Ideas, and altered, more,
over, his wholerharacter, basso none him act fir a 'Mt
Serie, tf year. In • manner In which It ger Tichhorne had
never adieu before. /ter thotigh the it, fendant's counsel
Lad inclined It ell to ezcentricity ho had failed to polut out
in the ahole of Roger'. pre‘i.ms life a shale fact which
pointed to r uch eccentricity of character. Al,h ugh, there.
fore, add the Lord Calm Justice, improbandiry of the
dory la net of Itself • reason for rejscrittg it, it supported
by evidence; yet, on the other hand, it requires certainly
strong and C gent evideuce to support it ; ad in that spin it
th • juiy mule approach the combination of the mid... In
the ease.

On We 'neadsy the Lord Chief Justice resumed the ,um-
mug-up, ciii 0 iyamm• truing sa d that, ,sveti,ll,d Iffeult!.s
surgested themseirrs to n thnewirliai Mind reff clog ou the
defendant's narrative, It would be nveereary to examine it
k Mire and minutely and not only eg rig rid thy seneral
outih,e, but the deters also, part'cularly of the shipwreck,
ble provervation, and anbatuuent landibu at Melbourne. sod
his Ito In Austraht fits Lor,slop then werrt On te.reveve
to ..rtfdrerrt h‘cldeets In cohntett.,u with this 61 tte