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

THE SENTENCE.

The defendant having been ordered to stand up,
Mr. Justice Mellor pronounced the sentence of the
Crust upon him as follows :—Thtinui Cerrito, otherwise
called Arthur Orton, otherwise celled Roger Cheri.,
D nighty 'neither., Baronet, alter a trial of unexampled
duration you nave been convicted by the jury of the several
perjuriee charged In the counts of this inelctment, and
which were truly d merlin d by yi ur C tinsel as crime, as
black and foul as testi,' ever raised her sword to strife."
In the trial of your cue the jury have exhibited a care, a
patience, and an Intelligence never Nurpaseed—lndeed, It wan
such as to extort expressions of admiral fl from your own
counsel, and their verdict meets witn tee turaninious approval
of the Conti. Indeed, It Is difficult to conceive how any
person who has considered the intrinsic Improbabilities of
your story, and has leteillgeetly considered the evidence
which has been adduced in the course of this trial, could
have come to any other conclude n. Thy testimony of WI-
T, Mel., however numerous or respectable they may he. to
your oemonal identity with either Arthur Orton or Roger
Tlchborne is compare, ively of little worth after so great •
lapse of time, ex ept in the Instances In which there existed
special Interest to Mame. and remember you (If course
the evideuce of Miss Loiter, of the family of Rorer Tlchborne,
and of Mr. Gosh rd is of great lumortauce in this CAMS, and
when I meution the name of Sir. Gueford I pause t, m a
moment—speaking for my self at all events—to say that he
has pieced public justice greatly in Me debt. Your entire
ignorance of the netive tregne of Roger Tichborne coupled
with at leest the partial acquisition of another langusge, the
tattoo marks which were proved to have existed ea tee arm
of the uudoubted Roger Ticnhorne, and his genuthe letter.
and the letters written by you whether in the character 4 f
Roger Tichbaree or Arthur Orion, the admissions expreesly
made or implied In yonr conduct, and all that is known of
the history of the lilt and character of Roger Tichborne and
of yourself present an accumulation of proof such as can
rarely he given In a court of plaice, and which couclualvely
dem, nitrates the propriety of the verdict of toe jury. No
mita can look with an rinprtjudtced mind and a clear observa-
tion at the letters of the nudoub.ed Roger Tichurne without
coming to the conclusion trmt they were never written by you,
wh le between the undoubted letters of Arthur Orton and
your own there is evidence of identify most coral Lite and
convinchig. lit what avail could toe negative evidence of
your mentity with Arthur Orton be agatrat she circumstances
connected with your visit to Wmping, with your satuMption
Of aMer name, and your cerresponderice and dealings with
the f gmlly of ....time Orton, added to the effect that jeer
counsel did not vmture to nut Into the box Arthur °doe's
sisters, who from the very first were In your Interest, who
bed received money fr m you, and had made affidavit. in
year favour/ the inference from your not ceiling them Is
irresistible—namely, am they Were poegesred of knowledge
which moat have tended str.mgly to prove your identtty wills
Ar. nor Orion. That toes° in, Important no It Is, to only
material as g fliordirg one of the modes of proof that you are
sot and cannot be R 'ger T.chbune. Whether you oriolualiy
Conceived and plahnel the entire scheme whi.its you ultt
ma' ely carried ont I tree not. The marvellent growth soil
develoemeut of y ur knowledge as to the circumstances on.
larded with the history of Roger liohborne and his mili-
tary life leave It tuicertaln whether your original design
was not enlarged hy reason ef tie ease with which yell found
people cot ally to fwcome y no dupes, mid I her it. some
canes your ace moll.. Booster that mkt, be, In the earn-
ing out of ynor scheme you holm:ad at no S 121011111& ii perjury
and fraud which you thought to be necessary to its is moms.
Wicked and neterious as it wan to inipiee yourself mutt
weird; as R ger Charles Tichhore e, WA to attempt to dem lye
the Inc tel nev of Me inheritence, thet offence 14111kG Monet
into lerigotemince when ounnered with the still more to'
famous perjury by which ,on ought to support y.,ur scheme.
I refer to jour attempt to bleat the reputation of Lady
Radcliffe. No mo-cf ul or deltherate f eiseisood Woe ever
head ins court of jostle'. I eau hardy restrain teeinligna-
tion which I feel at she Ineredluie base. en of per cooduet
In that respect. Happily the means of refutlrig Mut,
cowardly calumny Were immediately at hand, and never
was a cherge to comoletely shattered and exposed as was
that I. is not, however, hecause the rettantlOn of the
falsehood WS/ email rly slaty and complete lb t the base-
ness of ur conduct is dimirtshed. I believe lam •tteekin;
the semeinse,t of overy member Of the Coust when I say that
the punishment about to he modelled by she Court is wholly
load goat. to y inr Reece. The framers ot the Act of
Parliament that fixes and limlts the I ellttliCe which the
Court In authorized to pass upon you sever dreamt of cir-
cumstance. so merest+, el as exist in your case. Tee sertenes
of the Court which I now pronounce is that for ti,e perjnry
alleged in the fleet count of this indictment upeu which you
have been convicted you be kept in penal servitude fir the
term of coven years ; and that for the perjury alleged in toe
second count of this indictment of which you have also been
convicted, yeti be k pt In inns( servitude fir the further
term if seven years, to commence immediately upon the
expiration of the term of penal iery Rude amigned to you in
respect of your co, viction open the first count of We in
dictment, and that is the seuttuce of the Court.
The intendant: May I be allowed to a.y a few words?
The Lord Chief Justice No.

The defendant than shook hands with his leading counsel,
Mr. Kenea!y, was Immediately Arterwards rtmoved
from the court in the custody of Mr. Fraylh.g, juu., the
Model.

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The Lord Chief Justice: I wish In the fleet place to say
that I have received a letter from Mr. Locock Webb, In wide:,
he assures me that he was neither a party to the an tieme for
getting Mr. Oosford to meet the defendant at the °revenue
Note', nor In any way privy to it Thu evidence of Mr.
Bull:Int led me to suppose there ha ; previously been a con-
•oltation with the gentlemeu who hail reera throngtiout
advising in the meter and that he approved the plan wbieh
was adopted. I assumed that that gdutleman was Mr.
',cock Webb I am glad to find that snob an plea
was a misappreheusion on my part, and I am also
este, mely makes to say at the earliest possible mo.
meat that I accept his Ili/chimer and assurances on that
point in the most ur goal fled manner. I have also
re aylv, d a letter from General Castanet., saying It Is a
mistake to suppose that he was the comatender of the
squadron which got into a difficulty at Calls'. It was
Alexander Cumming, a Cerablneer, who mentioned General
Cur luxes name, he having thought that Ciptain Custauce
was toe olillyer commanding at that time tuts squadron in
question I am extremely anxious that tide correction
should be made known. Gentlemen, I do not Mot we
omit ii part with, ut toy thanking you for the pealenee—
the prolonged and enduring patience—which you have
exhibned in this case. Your anxiety to get at the bottom
of the case and to slit it to Its foluulatidos lu order to ascer-
tain the truth and to do Justice has been 1713011 t marked. No
Jury ever deserved a more Uuquall d enconium on the part
of those who hare presided at a trial than you are entitled
to at our bande. In that we all cancar. I much rem% that
so muck of your vsluabld time has been taken from your
several avocations, bat It may be some consolation to you to
think that your names wi I be mosoclated with the most re
ma.k shie trial that has ever occurred In the annals of
Eteglanci.
The Foremen : My Lords, I beg to thank you on behalf of
my —Anisettes for your complimentary remarks and for the
ki1,i1.6511 which you have shown to us throughout
this Case. I have also to express our thanks to the Masters
and other offirwre of the Court f.r the c. missy they have
shown towards as ; and to Mr. Inspector Denning mei the
police a. r his command for protection they have afforded
us on recent occasions.

Their Lordshlps then retired and the proceeding, ternat•
nated.

WAITING FOR THE VERDICT !

The Daily Aews, in an article entitled " Waiting for
tke Ed in Palace.yard," thus dercribee th losing
scene of the trial :

Coosiderleg that Settled.) morning presented what might
poselOy prose to ter the last opportunity of erring the
Claimant, rive Into Palace-said In a brougham, the crowd
that had aseem bled at half-past nine was mares', of the
proportions thst right have been anticipated. It fel! In with
.he uen,l regularity under the experiehced direction of
auperintendent Doming a men, and patiently awaited the
coming of the Claimant. A few minutes b. fore ten the
familiar lay mare end the well-mown blue brougham ar-
peared In sight, with a contingent et volunteer run-
ning footmen, who cheered .• Sir Roger " Ito un-
&hated enthusiasm. As the carriage passed thrt ugh into
the yard a cordon of police promptly drew Up behind it
across the gateway .d stopped the crowd that would have
entered with It. Bat inside thtre wes, whole resmonamo
limits, no reetrali.t upon she movements of the cialinaut's
itemizers, who lustily cheered and wildly waved their hats,
drowning in the greater sound, the blues that came from •
portion of the amesnolage. Cleins.t looked many alma.
graver ttum In the dare when Dr. Renee') 'a epeech waste pro-
gress., but nevertnelese smiled his acknowledgments of the
rite ption, .4 ripestennip raised hie hot. When he had
• as.ed in, the throng in Palace- arch rapidly vani•lied n t
More than a couple of hundred being present at half-past ten.
W. mniinater Had iteelt continued t,r be moderately lull, •
compact section or the crowd chat hod se.mreci places of
v. ntage bete. n the barricade and the LllnporAry telegraph
station evidently being prepared to 'see It cut' at whatever
hoer thy end might Come.
For the next hour there was scarcely any movement in the
Hall, save that odcasioned by persons who lounged In, looked
round, and either ranged themselves In the ranks behind the
policemen, or strolled out aside, boding to the generally pre.
relent belief that II they returned at two o'clock they would
still have ruillelent hours to wait 111 the Yard a thin line
extended frood the side of the Hall gateway backwards to the
railings In St. Ilergaret-ttreet, with another line draws up
ac,ose the far ergs of Vie broad sorriest- way before the
entrance. There was no esteutatious show of police, but
they had a way of silently filing out from under the cadets
or out of the Commons gateway In proportion as too
crowd thickened, which conveyed the Iropremihn
tat there was a free somewhere shoat that
wend prove ei.M.lent to meet any emergency. As.
matter of riot, Mr. Rupenuteneent Dancing had
limier hi. command 300 men, who had marched
do.. to Wtlttninrtur U&ir at Mx o'clock in the morning, and
were chiefly disposed's, steer., ready for settee as clrcum-
stat.ces might dictate Totk duties cornmeeced shortly
at ,er their arrival, 4 simulteoeomly occurred to at
le.st tannig persons, too uding • fate Proportion of women,
that if they eot down to ride Court at the In the m riling they
mould surely hod some way of geittng Inside and secretly dil-
pwwg of themiehres In the coveted seats In the Court of
Queen's Bench. Several were cans ht In the art of a:torn ping
Co force open doors, and bring polltfly cots, ucted out .1 the
Yard by the pollee, had an upexpected opportunity of going
home to take th.ir neglected-breakfast.
Al hell-put eleven, there being not more than three or
four hundred people In Falace-yard, a number of Frees mes-
sengers, rushing halter shelter out of the court and Into

wafting cabs, Indladed the arrival of some critical Wane*
within the Jealously-guarded portals. Presently It traneedred
that the Lord Chief Justice had ilnhhed his rimming up, and
that Mr. Justice Mellor was chinning the Jury. A bun of
cruvenation lose and fell In the Hail, and the reels
drew closer up, welting in silence the con: teemed.
[het could not non he tsr Want. The caws spread
with surprising lief Mont not only in Pal icii-yard, het
throughout Betide-street and EV. Mari stet... Artist, in,
the Faille,. looting thence into the heeente
grade:lly harked with rows f earnest faces. Little groups
formed on the pavement about the confers of Perlimneut-
street, faces appeareiii at the *ln lows of the houses. over
kiting t ie yard, ant the whole locality 1.,M1100,i SU aspect
of grave and swine. espeetetion. owl the crowd In the
,yaird was hob a tithe of thee which was seat to congregate
dating the progress of the speech for the defence, said the
ince with the Latest 'richt:Pone Alphabet' and tee
, Portraits of poor Sir„„Hoger, who he is and who he len'',
I .ere he bin and wliefee he didn't bits, erle•re he
turtle trOal and where he's • gide' to, with the Verdict
.price °he Peony," d' d uot drive very erogenous tirade. A
*ri, militee Men the elm k In the tower bed slowly teemed
irth twelve strokes it was known in the B it Court, where
a damn rarlii hands were writing out words the
echo of which had aearn.ly died Sway in the loner court, that
the Jives. had !hashed their teak, and that the Jury had
retired to ecnilder their vendee It was known aiso In tine
lobbies, where a throng of gowned and wigged barristers
were assembled, !urging on as the fringe of the decant? -
packed audience that set behind this Claimant, and oves ft Awed
by the opened doorway. Thence ft reached the crowd on.-
side, and after the dist movement and hum of conversation
had subsided, a dead silence fell upon the Hall, and all eyes
were flied Upon the door by widen, at any moment, me.
senors might istue e Ith the wed or words up to the uti et-
anus of which by the Korman of the Jury the great
trial slowly dragged its length. Half an heur later
the doer bent open, and messengers Came leaping
breathleu bade dowe tie steps and across
the Hull, shouting am Ch.), ran, " Guilty ! Guilty ou
all count. !" The words were teken up by the crowd, slid
panted from month to mouth In voices scarcely shone a
whisper. finest ick if junior canisters, Issuing from the
court, radlaiit and lane:dug, who brought the niat news.
Fonneen festal Fourteen years i" they called out. Ties
time the ere ad took up the cry In louder tones and there
was some Attempt at cheering, bus it did not prevail. The
less dynes crowd in the Yard received the intelligence with-
out any demoustration, and after a brief pause made off with
one c ascot for the judge. entrance in St. Monarch's street,
where peradventure they might see the prisoner taken away,
or at loath would catch a glimpse of the judges and counseL
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From this hour up to nearly font o'clock the crowd, in
numbas far exceeding thee present at the first intimation
of the verdict end sentence, hm•g stout S. Margaret's-street
and P.elace-yard waiting for the coming forth of the pri-
loser, who had long ego been safely lodged Li Desolate.
Al 500055 the couv:ct was given tie aurae of the tipstad of
the Vend he was led away by lospector Dinnior, by care-
full),lanced and circuitous route that entirely trilled the
curiosity of the waiting crowd. 'through the Court of
Exchequer the prisoner and his guards went, by the
members' private staircase, across the lobby, along the cor-
ridor, through the smoking-room into the Commons Court-
yard, where a plain police omnibus was In waiting with an
escort of eleven men he this the prisoner took Ids sent, and
was Odeon tbrongh the Victoria Tower gate en route for
Newgste. De accompanied his custodians as quietly as If
they were conducting him to his broucham, aud only once
broke the silence of the j .urney to Newgate. "it'. very
hot," he said, tatting along the passages of the House of
Commone, "abed 1-1031 40 fat."