The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-02-27 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE OASR.

sir .I,,bn idoe lion Med the apeech he borne
Ito jury oan. 15 on behalf of the defendant, on
Wedueeday l.tt, saying :—A prat estate and an old
ant bottonirible family rival your verdict. On you,
ani yon n'one, it 4apends whether a young and toile
bp...ll.res el a•rt t r, end a view! 0,111, t iiovng.
judged, for oettaluty, but of whom al rood thing. may
41.,nattly be hoped, at all eftjoy that estate and !spree/at
t at firmly, crippled lodged be the ruinous • x pease. of
t:ui• ear suit, yet it II at old and an honoursble
aird -t 11 a great ..tat ;or wit. th-r the 'eta, is to be
sa tot, th • fatuity deatroyeri by tin, man wren% I have
it. scribed before iu wads I don't repent of naing—le
words I have toads good—ln words which I reprint, as
a eonspi 4 It, perjurer, a forger, a sl.nde:er, mid a
v.lia,n—(applemse). When Ch flock Tichboree esme
to die in the time of Queen Elisabeth on Tower-hill.
Le spike of the lemily of Tiobborne as having lived
nortained in its thee in Hampshire for 200 years Irons
I, turn toe Conquer t. Three hundred more years have
r 1...+1 aye, from the days of Queen Elizabeth, and the
Looily of Tiohbo,uu is still there, and the homes of ti at
gr. in` and anclt.at house are °entreat in the 11th ,chill
Ii irt• sin it, is of. For Min whom I reprimat I ask your
verdict. I it..k for no favour; I riek for no indulgence;
I :irk you only In rio t` at which you think just and
riei,t ;tic +rim+ t tit.. striates% principles of law and
tho o carrot rules of rcaeon. I know you will do whet
you think riebt, because I have the most the, Into trust
arid lath in the honest, janitor, and integrity of a body
or Ruidoli gertleuren. English justico cannot, Indeed,
through you wield t`.e sword which Is ti smite down
olti't and crime, hut English jestice does commit to
your hand. theme void stales In which truth will
always outweigh faisetoad. Audi trait, in no foolleh
or brarg•tt spirit, in no unseemly eocedeoce, I tweet t
the issue, for my eines is right, sod you are jail—
(apphaitae).
Loin ii,llew. who was at otinyburst with Roger,
showed the tatto marks made on his arm by llclaborne,
and described tbe tatt role' he did on Roger's arm. I
was in moat during the ex graduation of the plaintiff
for about taros hours; but I could diesomir nothing in
hie appeereasie to pot mein naiad of the Roger Tichberne
when.. I knew oh Z.t.oybar.t. In my jedgment and
belief, the tisintiff is not Roger Tiehborne at a I.
Mr. A. se, in•mr, M.P., uncle of ihOglif Tiehborne,
contradisted many of the plaintiff's statement+. He
was perfectly certain cleiment was not Tlchborne.
Mrs. Radcliffe, aasiseted by her husband, then mad*
her way to the witoe.a.bax. When she was seated,
there was nothing In her looks, beyond • slight blush,
to indicate nervousness, and her answers reserally were
given though not in a loud voice, so oleerly as to be
distinctly heard by the jury. Only 011C0 did she betray
anything like emotion—that ems when the letter wee
rood which aecompanied a Istrthrisy present shit NW
mods to Roger Tiehborne. Is reply to guiltlesss pat
to bar by the Attorney.Oeueral, ate stated that sea
recollected seeing tattoo marks on Roger's arm—• arras,
au archer, and • heart- for the first time one day whoa
he put his band into the river to pull out some dowera.
Ft!.n sow them afterwards several Ulnae. lie asked her
to let him tattoo her arm. irto said she did not like
pain. Her aria was not marked. Ile said that etald•••
on hie were put three by some sailors either in Brittany
or Normandy. The only time that Miss Braes, who
had been her 'overuses had wee Roger was whoa ha
paid a short visit to Tiehborne In January, 1850, oft Ids
return from Irel•nd. On one oecialon—in November
—.items gave him a puree worked in the odour' of
his regiment ;he left it in a desk with Kn. Ooeford,
who returned it to her. Hs gave her • white alabaster
rosary with • silver cross. This Mrs. Radcliffe took
Iron.. • reticule, and handed to the Atterney•Genera/.
She deoltd having given Roger tine rosary produced by
the element. On his birthday, on the sth of deanery,
she had mole Roger • present of a copy of Father
Fabers's Hymns, with whloh 'be oral • sots, whisk
was read by the Attorney• General, as follows :

My Dom Itorer,—Pray accept this book Iran no, with a
*cry %fihnro utth tor many haply retorus or birthday,
11,111 hopm that thew hyruno may °lion recall to your
I 111 Whi,h MOM:o mk).. IV1111•11.1 ywar
•0,,i1..11.1“4.:

C•1111111W111 DCWOUTf,

On the 11th of January. 1811, they snob/hawed locks
of hair— that of R urcr was handed to eowneeL The
Irarned gentleman, &fur • Pall" asked Kra Radcliffe
II she wee in Guar% when the claimant had made the
th ago against her honour? Yoe, she replied.
Wen) you aware of lb. charge that he was about to
vi‘ke against yoe?— Yes, I was.
Wu it by your own desire that you were ntl—
wait. (The witless's voice IMO tom
Lo.. but very firm sad desisted.)
heard what he midi—Ye*. .

It t`trro one word of trot n whai ho Bald al
to hi. relations with you? --Oertaioly not ; not ono single
rr . .

„ • .
v.. Roster Tichborno over guilty of taking • liberty
with you! —Never. (This anew., Wall given in a alight ly.
• I tense( Tokio so ii tbe audible, no doubt, through.
oil the court.)
Ltd ant thing ever pass between you that you did keep,
or wished to keep, from the knowkdge of your mother 1
—Never ; certainly not.
Ii *writhing that the plaintiff has said upon that
subject absolet .ly and wholly false I—Completely false
ovate ly false.
All the jerynten net appearing to hear distinctly, the
Lord Coed Justice repaate.l the witness's word..
N iv, you knew lii... evil. Mrs. Radcliff', was there
anyt'iing that ever pawed from him to you, ether in
et or word, that an h.inourable and delicate-minded
min might not say or do to a pruerninded glrll—No,
certainly not—never.
Mn. Radcliffe was fit. thew ezrunined by Sit John
ladies on Friday. When Rorer left Trehborne on
li. 12ili of Jannaey. 1852. he fare her two papers ; one
we. on am met of the writer's thought, and feeling' on
▪ obliged to I. are, and in this he protet id his love
for Ids cousin, ond his Intent cro to stay In India fifteen
years if she married anyone else. They aft Tweeds had
an interview, but no engagement was made nor woe it
broken off; be was simply smith away. He was, how-
ever. sent lot again on the Slat, Sir Edward soiling
Rome then. according to agreemeet. Woke t Sir Ed-
ward shoat toe engagemeut, and pat into writ. ng what
Sir &leapt said end Roger thought. (Them papers ham
been 'dna ly put baled.) Bogle was at this time Goa-
fidential servant. nursed Sir Edward, and would know
of most of the circumstances detailed. Roger gave me
• kelp t in which bo plamd some hair, and be showed me
too lockets in whieh he pierced my Lair. Roger gave
we mverai other things—a small memorandum-book, a
pit ire of St. Charles Rorromeo, and • small golden
crueler.
The Attorney-General: Toe plaintiff said that you
gave him a ring with • small diamond in it. Is that
tree—No ; I never heard of it till he said It.
Upon wb at Co tinr did you pa, t I—We hoped to Indus,
my father to withdraw his prohibition. and to marry
later. I
servant. and only on two occasion without • friend, in
adlition to • servant.
If the claimant has gild that be rode out with you
alone freqsently. It is untrue?—Quite untrue.
LM you walk alone with him t—Only jest round the
den, which is in sight of the house and the farm.
Did you ever walk out with him exoept when yes
would be aader the ohearvation of persons who might
be about? —CM, never. I was jest eighteen at this
time. Roger left Ti•hborne on the 21Ind. I walked
with him that day in the garden by the river. He gave
me • paper on that oeseadon. This is It. When be
Leo ine the paper he said, "I have given •similar cam
into Mr. Osefortrs ears.” Tole la the paper: "TlOll-
- Park—l make on this day • promise that if I
marry aay cousin Kate Dourhty this year or before
time years am over at the latest, to build • eburch or
shwa at Tiebborne to the Holy Virgin, Is thanksgiving
to her for the protection she bias given us in proaylog
God that our wishes may be fainted." Within an hoar
or two alter giving me this Roger went away.
And you have sever seen him sineel—Never.
That you solemnly swear I—ffilemnly.
You have heard hie description of the relations be
toren him arid your family in the autumn and whiter
of 1852-3. Is there one word of truth in It? —No, not
ono single word. I Dover law him after the time I
h.... said,
Were you ever with him at the mill at Sevington 1—
N never on any eseasion.
To the Lord Chief Justice I was never with him at
that or any other mill.
II *ring of the loot of the B Ito, and the Mahn made
by tie plaintiff, the witesse trod ti me him, but the
Plat: tif always excused Liaiself on tho ground of
illness.
W.toem stated, in croseexamlnatlon, theistic always
remembered the tattoo make. She was positive she
never saw Roger In the autumn of 1852. She went
with her brother and Roger on one 00311.eicD to measure
an ea tree, but did not go with Roger into a road near
the oak.
Serjeant BallanUne said he had asked all he felt
Instilled in asking, aid, in conalution. said —"Do:
TOO mean to swear that man is not your sought. Mrs.
Witoeas replied: "I am perfectly con-
fident he is not "
Mr. Henry Galli! Seymour expressed • oonddent
op oi,,n t the claimant rio an impostor.
The tout adjoarned until Iliado morning.

TIM LAM LORD MAYO.
C tLCUTTA, Wonyroooas.—Tho rosolno of Lord Kayo
wt re iv Naked to-day to board H.M.S. Daphne.

INSUILKINITION IN NEXICOt
Nrw Yolk, WcolosoooT.—Tlsoinsorgetao to Mtnloo
aro boelegiog Sao Lois Potosi, sod 12,030 men it.
tooosolog Not eh, of Mellor.