The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-07 00:00:00

Th« Daily Telegraph, in their descriptive Account of
the trial, thus remarlui on the defendant's de-

imean

"As hi. Lordship .poke the Puy followed him with an
attention the strain of which It was alm..et painful to witness.
Hovivid, indre.l, was the sketch, and yet so cond, need, that
to lose a sentence of It was to break the thread of the argil-
moot ; while at the same time, hi. Lordship's somewhat
rapid delivery made It olifilatit to follow his. without very
cl,se heed to every accent. Tnere was nee person, however,
in court upon whom not • word ws but. Hitting directly
trier the bench, with little B.:ale ..n hie right hat 4, and with
Mr. Harcourt, Ms attorney, and Mr. liardtng, hie s-cretary,
on his left, the defendant hiruseif thiu4 his paper' aside.
leant his head on Ma hand, and turning his face up to-
wards the hooch, regarded the Lord CAI4II Justice
with a steady look of quiet curiosity. What was
passing to his ruled It was Imp, 'Able to C'W jecture. What-
ever le might be—fear or hope, Indignation or rage—tin re
WAS 114 a trace of It up.m hie features, which wore their
nasal hApAnAhlo And imp,netrable expreasion of t Ladd sell-
confidence. Mout, rut% he slal•ced as the three &Stetter.,
while anon his glance wandered round the court, and rested
Upon some of the leading counsel, or upon Mr Howker, or
mime other member of the forces arrayed kalust him. But

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this wits oily ter s moment, and his eyes would be back sg.to
directly, and, as before, stesdlly axed upon thn I:ed Chief
Justice. S amid perfect allefue, scarcely broken by tit.
hurrying In and out of COOSSAIn relays of reporters, the
suntrulug- op proceeded."

The Daily News, in their remarks on the closing
scsue of the trial, thus notes the appearance of a
" mystetious stranger "in Court
There hove, Indeed, bees MOM reasons than one why the
defendant should have failed to be happy of late. tome day.
have airspeed since • mysterinua stranger had taken his seat
Split opposite the green isles table M the well of the court,
facing the object of all those proceedlrrs at scarcely snore
than an arm• length. lie wee an athletic young man,
square shouldered, round headed, with • th'sk brown beard
and rather determined Oast of count. nano*. It was cm-
tutu toot he wee not an official of th,t, court.
Ile took no notes, not titil he app -ar to Interest himself In
Ito ilightest 41.gree its the sloquin• words that were falling
from bee Bauch. Why did this yoUng man take • sudden
fai.cy for lingettpg upy alter day in that plono—spraklng to
110 onto, ant not even going out during luncheon time? The
gush) was that else .fisl anonymous buten bad been re-
ceived by the Jtidgs of what the man who bad con-
fessed to being as old rum of VT,
vothotgotrolo2sdosnud
terolhLtifirdlialr:pir obtheerve abtniaohnn's "dig'irt lot speedily take •
more favourable tone; or if the Jury should velViire
to imbibe unsatisfactory notlOUll of ble taVanationo on Use
Ore.,, question, or his solemn oneeriationa with regard I*
the meat, it packet. It was rumoured that, although little ine-
portance waa attached to these excited epistles, it trig
thought not inexpedient to piece the athlete young man
with the brown board in front of the green h./ns table Be
thot mu It may, however, It was 11,11131 fest hi.
there wee nksome—a sort of loath heed without the teak
which wee tret.tiog and onOn Mk But on Sal urday WNW
lug the young man wale suddenly J so.d by two others of
atolls bond, and these were nrm know,, to he COLIBt&
plain cloth 5, prepared to retire If tie jury •hould acquit;
bat °Sorel.o rem up to 1., their hands upon the broad
shoulders of the man, uho IntOt have been more thee
human If these thrt stranger. .1.3 like the expectant demons
to toe old legends) dramas—had not tuspirad him with dis-
mal forebodings."

Durini the trial Mr. R.. Llucoln Aildridir, a young artist
of great &tiny hat been engaged Li rketuting the judge.,
the jury, the counsel, ant all the leading persons concerned,
for. l..rge picture, representing the court at the moment
Mr Hackles was croweiaminhot Lula, which le now nearly
completed. There are no 1., wer than be heads. met of tin...,
mice lent Ilkenmere, ant the grouping haa been admirably
managed. Several of the principal personages gave the LOAM
special ettLingi,

It is Impossible to avoid noticing at the cor elusion of the
eeee tee Import tat service rei dared In • ho cease of justice
by the art of photwaraphy (remarks The Tllll,ll. Tie prin-
cipal documents In the caw, the pocket-book of She deieud..
Silt, his letters and those if ltJaer fichborne were
photographed by the Stereoscopic Company miner the
auspice. of Mr. lifoltage. their manager. and thetan timilea
thus produced were of Immense tree In lacllitatthe the co,.
of handwriting, to which the Lord Chief lustiee
attached much Importance as one of the great Wets of
Identity. There pronably newer was • case In which She
application of the Invention was of greater service.

The Hon Mn. Wickham epd the Infant Sir Henry 'rich
borne arrived at aired 1,1 Oh Morday. The c was
drawn thr.u,h the park by tenants on the Tt, bourne est4s.

THE SENTENCE ON THE " CLAIMANT" EXPLAINED.
A Templar" wi hes to the &lox :—" Au consider.
able miemaderstanding seems to exist with regard to
the amount of the seleence Passed on Saturday
morning upon the itopc4tor Orton, I venture to
call your attention to tne true explanation of it.
The derendant wee tried upon an indictment con-
taining two c utc's—the one for committinz perjnry
in the C.iurt um Common i'le‘s. and .he otter tor a
like Jarmo in the Court of Coancery ; awl as thee,
were distinct juditial proceseuinge, the peijnry in
each case constituted a separate nffence, for which
the law awards the maximum punishment 0 seven
years penal servitude. Each of these two dcunte co..
tain.i th.e "neicignucents" er specific allegations of
perjuey, and th, jury se a fact found that on each
nacignment perjury had been committed by the de-
ftiatimit ; but tide warn superfluous se regarded the
,enlace, for had only one •• ausigameat" beet found

I against him he could still have been rentenced to seven
i years on each " count," while had there been 100
as=igninente of perjury commirted in the same pro-
ceedings he could have hid no greater punieLment.

TEE '110:BORNE "TRIAL 4T BAR."
"A. E." writes to The T intett---11 It mafbe as well
for the In,ormarion of sour readers to state that the
Court called the "I',iii at Err' was aj urntal byr the
usbers in the usual form on Satrirday last. According
toll George IV. and 1 William IV., cap. 70, sec. 7.
it is enacted that 'The Judges may appoint auT day
for the tri 1 they think St, and the time so apporrited,
if in vacation, shall f ir the purpose of such trial be
deemed as tart of the preceding term.' Therefore, as
•he above trial commenced on the 23rd day of April.
1873. in Easter Term, and has ocrropird the Court 183
so. king dc P. part being in vacation, it has been the
longest term kn..wo within living maim ry. and acc ril-
ing to custom the term was adj ,nrned an the usual
form by the usher as follows :—All manner of persons
of all part. of England th 4 have anything more to to
before our Sovereign Lady the Qqeen m,y take their
ere and keep their day here again on Wednesday. the
15th day of April nest coming. God save the Queen
and my Lords the Queen's Justices.'"