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

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

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vary. It le true that Parliatuehts ere ri• t
into exialence 110 tuselly &If Kluge or Qasene. "Th.
King le clesel—lorg live the King !" Soch w s the 010

grwoicietiwwtoatiwg. Psi ttOtto.werlet-fax toe,de! i.
nes y gave way to good wia•ow for hi. otacceesor
In the rase of the recent disrolution of ParliemerA
beicyc thy/kite/to had Nal/ cv tr y
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at tte me,,i.n. the fact trot 0 talaour ,
' .4.i;11y- Igna:4l6TalteltnAgi ne" -4., % . nand

said bads of undo,' ta, he took
\‘i:lng the surest be tact, IS
se, at once recorlhe incldeifts of
mi rot they e ere 1 k mokenuon
v. If t ,otera le et far
etil esteem', It 'Ale, wheeramie
as e, re veep vale 'ere,
mast- or to show their relevancy, nod beam; g on the
esse. From time to time de has p detect oat to evl,ences
woled lu t,em t.C. ra as to hover's onquaintsnmet, for
toosince, with the Nail- of Lord B -Dew, and he reel-
nicely volute' out that, although there were repeeted
ref re, ors to itom, the, ores ..one which in Lb. least ii, sir
.sesissysasdesk Arros—or exple!rredm—mrh rellgfec,
she &Wench, tge a .'rm.st lett. r he wrot to me. Hototima
-y way ~f provlo, ,•1.. I. ehtlty. In commenting on the
wets writs, i.e R. g r itt it's nil tiVile le 1164,
ns
, the Wooy beet s •rWy" thm Lor
iris:tee likewise observed on the 'lr. q t refer.. in
.c..r's lett..re to Wolter etrickland, e..e of intimate
rondo, (now dead), of whom the defendant seemed wipe
I:nrrinist, -Mid to Whose 'death. fledo4.l, he Minted as that of
an enemy. Ti,. Lod Ch et Jostles Also, a d to the
afford-A in Ro_er'sitters to Mr (Suitor.' of his
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xtreme intimacy with trial irenilemsn, and of the unre-
served confidence with which he wrote to him on the
most private and sacred matters. The Lord Chia!
Justice, In his c,•mmeete on the letters, drew par
tteolae attention to their bearing on the two subjects
ot Eger, affectiou for his cousin and his d+sp 'onion
,1 Ms property In his will, met he showed how
savlects became closely connected when, Its Jonuary,
1852, titer the dboi• Imre f his afTetinn, he dm, sited with
his Go.foEtpho 'sealed timer In when
had written a promise lo build a church If within three years
he
married tirs c• iron, and tutu , wrote to hie private
solicitor, 11430 prepared his will ('WO, of course, would
operate only at his death),--," My pried.* wish. 4111 i I awn.
• Mous, as I intmoi to have them metre° t out, If 1 lee, I
have exolalued to Mr Gosford." Ito showed how Isis tal-
lied with the foot that In June, 1862, a few days &Wr rm.
cutihg his will, he give to his cousin, 81 taklue leave 14
hr, poper in eim.l sr terms which she has pr,o,orc-_,d.
lie drew attention to the letters which passed In the ie•
tonal, dun g which Roger was obtalning thformation from
his solicitor as to the legal pmition a the Proterty hi,
rev, r -Mousey .1 tere.ts In it, and, on the other hand, was
giving coldou elostructions lii rats solicitor for the p opera-
s.. is of tils ; and he point d out to the jury the
importance of an this, an showing R 'gee's th dough medery
of the subject, with reference to the anseters given by the
defendant who. qumtious were mired him about it.
Comleg to the short visit pad by Roger to Tichborne In the
three days between the 12. h and 22 dof June, 185 S when
he gave his cousn the paper referred to, oho Lord
.;hiel JurCce paused out the Impurtmose of the °motion
whacks r Roger was ever at Tichh.trne again. whit refer-
ence t i the dory of his seductiou able cmstn. Ihe de-
f.-orient, he ponted out, laud sworn that It occurred o :n
July or Aueust, 1852," whereas the lettere ot Roger irem the
thee he returned to Cmterloury, on the Viudef June, were
all doted at Ca.ternury down to Oct,bor 21, st hot as
NI letters slowed; AS went to Upton. end all hie lot er,,
not only showed no trace of any sues. q ,itot visit
to Ttchhorne, bolt contained repeated expressious of
▪ temiutluA not t revizit the place. the Lord
Chfei Jussice showed from it ger's letters that this was
to courrequence of Lis cunt baying, ROM after he left Doh-
mime, br.igen if all iiul,icoUrse btat wet n iii,uaoif Son,
his oomie having finally made up her 0111111 uralust their
sloion cud ins, drew the perticular etteutton of the
jury to the twine aod the torte of their saosconent corm-
epondenco, as entirely with a view to see how far, sissy were
consistent either with the notion of a pr. woos steluc-
ti. n or of shy subsequent visit to Tichbor..e. With
referenoe so what be tlemed the "latest reedun of the
sedontion rio y set up by the detendatr;'• counsel
(quits at varience with the one he bed himmelf sworn
t y—thet It had 00,1Iffild dllefig the betel suit In
Jose—rise Lord Chief Justice asked the jury to co.ne'der
how for the tot e those letters was cum Want with
the dowentlea's s, Moment that his uncle and lather—
...era t t what had occurred—were pr. rah g hint to emirs
his ontall, and that be took his breed, of hce at Tichborne
N .v.mber, INR2 Commenting on the huuseroum letteraof
it-titer between J.me and Nov-rather, leaf' the Lord Chief
Justice voluted out how they toe,. ell dermd at Canterbury,
aid hoe tole bore not only on t; e defendsut's dory of the
srduc; ion. but almo on his account the Bright .n card
came, which he had sword ocourred at the Autumn Brighten
rac-a In 1852 ; and he y,Anted out now at thatch.. R.••ger sva,
writing letters at Canterbury. The Lord Chief Jos let alas
pointed one, club refer, ace to a .4050011 oh the defend-
ant's counsel tont the care might hme occaired In POI,
that In the antenin o.f 'hat year Rog .r was in Irelend
The L red Oriel Justice drew attention to passages in
Roge;'. later Lute a in 1852. in which, with reereoce to
his intention to leave the Army and go abroed,
mentl hod more Vote once, as the two counories he
&wired t vi-it. South America and Mexleo, and added that
he should then come home by Rump , without lieliciting
arty tutention of extending his trevela Inn other bun
more remote regions The Lor.d. Chief Justice, nomilue
Roger's letters down to the end of October, 1852, showed
that they were all dated frees CmierOury, and that at that
time he went to Uomon to spend t,ie hunting season, pre-
paratory to going abroad in the Spring.

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