The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-27 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE CASE.

On Monday morning the Attorney.Cieneral resumed his
speech for the defence. He began by repeating some obser-
vations whirl) he had made ou a former occasion respecting
the origin of the plaintiff's claim, lie said he did rut wish
to charge the whole of the witnesses in the ease with
having entered into a conspiracy such as we sometimes read
of in novels, but never met with either in public or private
Life. Ile slid not mean to say a immiser of persons with
elaeltened faces and dark lanterns had met round a table and
deterniined to band together to set up a false heir to a large
estate. What he slid say with regard to this imposture
might be put in the words of Topsy in " Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
"'specta it growed." The claimant, aided by two or three
persons at first, had been able to get up the whole of
the affair, and then together they had succeeded in con-
vincing a number of respectable people that the man
was what, be represented himself to be. It was astonish-
ing on what slender grounds most of the witnesses in this
ease bed been convinced. With the exception of Lady
Tichborne, only two gentlemen of any Importance in Eng-
land—Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Baigeut—said from the first
they recognised Roger Tichborne in the person of the
claimant, and it was upon their authority that the case
had been fairly launched in this country. Mr.
Hopkins was looked upon as an astute old lawyer, and
Mr. Baigent was a clever archreologist, and when
two such people supported a morbid-minded old lady
in saying that the claimant was her long lost son, no
doubt many other persons were materially influenced
in their judgment. Mr. Hopkins asked the claimant to
write a letter which should mention some circumstances
known oily to the two of them. The claimant wrote back a
most ridiculous letter, in which the only fact referred to
was the love affair of a Miss Bellew in Paris, with which
the public were well acquainted. And yet it was upon an
absurd letter like this that Mr. Hopkins grounded his recog-
nition of the claimant. Mr. Ilaigent said he recognized the
French accent of Roger Tichboine in the talk of the claimant.
Well, the jury had heard the claimant in the witness-box,
and they would say whether he had any French accent or
not. A test interview was artangesi, at which the claim-
ant, Mr. Hopkins, and Mr. Balgent were present, but on that
occasion the claimant was never asked one wovl about the
circumstances under which the Bella was lost and he was
landed at Melbourne, and he knew nothing of the relations
of the Tichborne family. He slid know, indeed, something
of the Tichbonse pvfperty, but it is quite clear that he had
obtained all his information on the subject from Mr. Holmes,
his attorney, who haul made himself acquainted with all the
affhlevits which had been tiled in certain Chancery suits con-
cerning the Tiehborne property, so that it amounted to this,
Slott the claimant at this test interview was unable to tell
anything about Ins alleged family and relations, and what
he knew about their property was slue to what had been
told him by his own attorney. .Some curious mistakes
were made by the claimant in regard to these Chancery
deeds, shoeing that while he had got a little knowledge
of them, he had not mastered their details, or under-
stood their real purport. The Attorney-General showed
this by rending numerous extracts from the deeds and con-
trasting these with the answers the claimant had made to
Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Baigent at the interview referred to.
For instance, in 1556, Sir James Tiehborne raised a sum of
£50,000 to pay off certain liabilities. Nose this was two years
after the wreck of the Bella, and while Roger Tiehborne, if
Yin was not lost in that vessel, was in Australia. It Wfili
elem., therefore, he could not have known the circumstances
of the transaction. Vet the claimant knew all about the
business, which showed to demonstratism that he most have
got his information from his attorney or examined the
Chancery deeds himself.
'The foreman of the jury desired to know how it was that
these deeds were so available to the public.
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The Attorney-General said the deeds were part of the public
proceedings of the Court of Chancery, and were connected
with snits which had been carried on there. There was,
therefore, not the slightest difficulty in any one making
lamellae ptainted with them.
The Attorney-General proceeded to say that the things by
which Mr. Baigent mid Air. Hopkins recognised the
plaintiff were the test letter, in which there really was
nothing at all, upon a conversation which was trans-
parently insufficient, and a recollection of the contents
of deeds, which was false and ignorant from beginning to
end. On the Sunday after thin interview, Mr. Baigent
went to church, and saw Mrs. Colonel Greenwood there,
who said they should be glad to see the plaintiff if he
were the real person, but not if he were an impostor.
Colonel anti Mm. Greenwood would be called before them.
Mr. Baigent wanted the plaintiff to go to Mrs. Greenwood,
but he said in his famous letter to his "Dear Coining Kate"
that lie had a headache and could not go. It also was re-
markable that it appeared upon the evidence that as the
plandiff got away from Manchester and towards London his
headache got better. Then they had a number of let
ters signed "P. C. D. Tichhortm, Bart.," but no true
baronet that ever he had known put Bart." after his signa-
ture (a laugh). ft appeared that thv Dowager had been in
the habit of carefully keeping everything that had belonged
to or was connected with Roger ; and he asked the jury to
Infer that during the ten days that the plaintiff was with
her in Paris he made himself acquainted with the letters,
the handwriting, and probably the diaries of Roger. Ile
thought also that they would believe' that the plaintiff had
there seen many more documents than had been produced
in court.
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When the plaintiff went to Tichborne House he was
shown a picture ot the Dowager, and he turned pale,
and sank into a chair, according to Colonel Lushington's
evidence. It appeared, however, that the plaintiff had
previous to tins studied a catalogue of the pictures,
and it was the only large picture in the room. He, it was
said, also seemed to recognise the rooms; but those were
the very rooms into which Bogle had been, and he hail pre-
bably told the plaintiff all about it. There was then the skin
of the cock pheasant which the plaintiff said he had sent
home from South America. The defendant's advisers went to
Air. Ward, a very intelligent person,who stuffed birds for the
Royal Fancily, and then found that their friends °lithe other
side had been there before them. (A laugh.) They also
found that the bird which the plaintiff lead represented as a
foreign bird shot and skinned by him, Mr. Ward had told
the plaintiff's friends was undoubtedly an English bird and
skinned by an English cook. (Laughter.) They had been to
smother expert in such matters, Mr. (lentil, who would say
that he would eat his hand if it were not an English bird
skinned by an English cook. (Laughter). It would further
appear that there were no cock pheasants in Chili from
whereas the plaintiff leuEsaid he sent it. Notwithstanding
all this the plaintiff had trumped up a story about the
pheasant, and tried to deceive Colonel Lushington about it.
This story almut the foreign bird sent home had done duty
I or the plaintiff a over the county of Hampshire, and now they
had seen what it amounted to. Then there was the
story of the miniatnres in the plaintiff's room at
Tichborne, and the plaintiff having been told by Baigent
that they had gold backs went down to ISMOICC with Colonel
Lushington and Mr. Guildford Onslow, and during a con-
versation on the miniatures said that they had gold backs,
which turned out to be no when they were out from the
frame. This was stance pronounced lobe a wond erf ul thing,
as showing the plaintiff's knowledge, and the plaintiff never
said a word about how begat his information until Baigeut
was obliged to tell the truth in the witness box, and thus
the whole story was shown to be worthless.
The plaintiff in writing to the dowager, said not a word
about his recognising her picture at Tichborne, probably be-
cause she had told him of its being there. Soon after the
plaintiff had an interview with Mr. Henry Seymour, who
had with him Burden, the old servant, end some old letters
of Sir James llehborne. He did not know his pretended
lather's writing until he saw the signature. Moreover, Bur-
den, the butler, who was much younger than Mr. Bangle,
Roger's uncle, was a person whom Roger well knew: yet all
through the conversation the plaintiff mistook Burden, the
butler, for Mr. Naugle, and addressed him by that name.
The plaintiff said that the butler WM dressed up to deceive
him, but such was not the fact, and Mr. Bangle was an en-
tirely different-looking person from Bunion. Moreover, in
writing to the dowager of this interview he spelt Seymour,
Seymore," which the real Sir Roger surely could not have
done. Mr. Seymour told the plaintiff what he thought of
him, but said he should be happy to have another inter-
view with him if he desired it. An appointment was made,
but the plaintiff did not again face Mr. Seymour.
On the 11th February, 1867, there appeared the most im-
portant witness—Carter—uPon the scene. Before referring
in detail to this witness, he would just say in reference to .
the marks upon the body, that Roger had marks, and the
plaintiff had marks, and, speaking generally the marks Roger
had the plaintiff had not, and the marks the plaintiff had
Roger had not. Carter had his first interview with the plain-
tiff on the 26th February, and previous to that time Baigent
could not any that he had ever heard the plaintiff mention
any person connected with the regiment. Previous to
this he had only said that he had enlisted as a common
soldier, had been there 13 days, and had been bought off by
his father. Carter had been servant, not only to Roger, but
to two other officers. One of them was Captain Morton,
Roger's meet intimate friend, and the other was Captain
Pinckney. Captain Morton was dead ; Captain Pinckney the
plaintiff would not call, though they called the captain's
clerical brother, who dined twice at the mess with Roger.
Carter would know not only much of the life of the regiment,
but also about various families that Roger visited in Ireland.
Carter knew almost all the incidents which had been used
with such effect in converting the different witnesses; and
he might, if he liked, have communicated them to the
plaintiff. Further, it appeared that no military man was
admitted to see the plaintiff without a special appointment,
se that the plaintiff would know who was coming and could
he prepared try Carter with scraps of information with which
he could astonish each particular witness as he appeared be-
fore him.
On the 3rd March McCann was sent for by direction of Mr.
Holmes, and though he was for sometime unsatisfied, yet
he remained in the plaintiffs service to do, as humid, no-
thing at all. The only real object in having DleCann In the
house was that he might give information in reference to
the regiment. McCann had been servant to Roger Tichborne,
and he recollected many of the circumstances connected with
the regiment which were afterwards used by the plaintiff to
convert various military witnesses. It was some time be-
fore the plaintiff could make up his mind to face any officer,
bet ultimately he succeeded In converting three or four of
them Against their teritimony he (the Attorney-General)
would call 15 or 16 other officers, who would give their
Wit the plaintiff's story was altogether trumped

up.
At tour o'clock the Court again adjourned.

The Attorney-general began on Tuesday morning by re- ;
:erring to the time when the claimant felt himself compelled ,
to face some of the members of the Tichborne family. An
interview was arranged to take place at Essex-lodge, Croy- I
don, where the claimant was living, between Mr. and Mrs.
Radcliffe, and Mrs. Townley. In the conversation which
took place the claimant displayed great ignorance of the
Tichborne family, lie called Mrs. Radcliffe Lucy, which I
was the christian name of Mrs. Townley, and he ad- •
dressed Mrs. Townley as Kate or Kitty, which was the 1
name of Mrs. Radcliffe. Ile made other gross mistakes,
and Mr. Radcliffe and the two ladies were of opinion i
that he was net Steger Tlchborne. There was this about it,
however ; Lady Tichtionm wills living in the house with the
claimant and persisted in saying he was her son. It was
therefore felt that before making their minds up finally a ,
second interview should take place. On this occasion .
several othermembere ef the Tichbothe family were present, .
but Mrs. Radcliffe unfortunately missed her train, and did
not arrive until the Interview was over. During this meet-
ing the claimant, in conversation with Mr. Radcliffe,
chose as a topic' a visit which the real Roger
Tfehhome had paid to Sir Talbot Constable at
;Winn Constable, in Yorkshire. Na doubt this was
sfalculaLol to impress Mr. Radcliffe very much, because he.
Was at Burton Constable at the same time as Roger Itch-
Marna, list at One time Mr. Radcliffe had no knowledge of
eej,,tt had since beet ascertained—namely, that the claimant
had beet in correspondence with Sir Talbot constable, and
hail obtain.: Information from him of the visit in question.
'Phis was a sneenden of the way in which the claimant had
acted throughout this ease. Having get information of
some particular fact horn somewhere he took the earliest
opportunity of bringing it under the notice of persons
tv,sl it was most likely to impress in his favour.
Mrs. and Mies Nangle, the aunt and cousin of ltoger
Tiehi-
borne, were present at thls interview, but the claimant did
not meognise either of them. Miss Nangle asked lust to
speak in French, as he used to do in !!ygone days, but lie
said that was not "in the contract.' abc tried broken
English, however, which turned out to be the surest
" Wapping." Mrs. Townley asked him to describe her
Townley, but he was unable to doss, Ile was
askmi where Townley was situate, and said it was near Bath,
whereas the fact is that Townley Is near Stonyhorst, in
Lancashire. 'I!4) inembery of the Tichborne family came
away loom the'imerview firmly convinced that the claimant
was all impostor.
While In the army Roger Tithborne had such a French
accent Sheet the soldiers could scarcely keep their counten-
AnCel when he gave the word of command, out the claimant,
whatever he might have had formerly, had certainly now no
French accent whatever. The Jury were asked to believe
that the claimant was what he represented himself to be
incense he remembered stew ineidentz in the career of Roger
Tic/theme during the time he MS in the army, and which
incidents bad no doubt been eommunicated to him by
Carter, while at the mune (hue he could net recogniee either
his aunt, the. Nangle, or his eolith., 'Miss Nangle,
and was grossly ignorant of the 'dieing of the family
with which he said he was so closely connected.
lne claimant was seen by Mr. McEvoy, M.P., who
hail known Roger .fichborne white they were officers together
in the Carbincers. Ile said he remembered Mr. 3leEvoy
very well, laminae he had visited him "up et If eath." Now
this woo a singular mistake, because there was no suet resi-
dence as Meath in Ireland, and it was the name of a county.
Was it conceivable that the real Roger Tiehborne, who had
front.threle eoyfeizihweoefohistlyif,efiamteraer krcowte have mltige4
was member, as the name of that gentleman's residence?

Mr. Biddulph, one of Roger Tichhorne's cousins, recognised
the claimant because he recalled to his mind that on one
occasion they smoked two death's-head pipes together at
Bath. This circumstance, however, was well known to
Bogle, who had no doubt told it to the claimant prior to
the interview with Mr. Bidduiph.
With the exception of Lady Tichborne, Mr. Biddulph was
the only member of the Tichborne family who could identify
the claimant ; and the jury now knew the trivial grounds
upon which this gentleman had formed his opinion. All
the other members of the Tichborne family who were ac-
quainted with Roger would lm called, and one and all would
unhesitatingly say they believed the claimant to beau im-
postor.

A bunt this time Mr. and Mrs. Cairns recognised the plain-
tiff, and the former of them was converted in a singular way.
Ile is asked about an injury to his arm, and Mrs. Cairns was
much struck with the plaintiff knowing of this injury. The
arm was injured whilst Cairns was in theregiment, and Carter
might have known this, but it was peculiar that it appeared
upon the evidence that the injury was rficeived after the
plaintiff had left the regiment. Mrs. Cairns said that the
date was when a child was suffocated in the barracks at
Canterbury, and this it se as said was in November, 1853,
when Roger was in South America. The defendants repre-
sentatives hail since beeo the Canterbury Barracss, and
found that the child was actually suffocated in November,
1555, a date which would not do any better, because Roger
was on leave from the 25th Oct. to the 30th Dec., 1852, when
he rejoined, and finally left in February, 1853. The time
therefore when the plaintiff was supposed to have known of
Cairns' arm being in a sling, he was in tact absent from the regi-
ment. Cu!. Mackinnon also, who was called, wasmuch struck
with the plaintiff recollecting the gorse being set on lire on
the hill at Cahir, but it seemed upon inquiry that Roger
was not with the regiment when this occurred, and that
plaintiff had therefore heard it from some one else, and
used it to convert the colonel. The real Roger was, when
this happened, at Clonmel, aml therefore he could not have
known of the inc]dent of his own knowledge. Soon
afterwards the plaintiff held his levee of witnesses
at Alresfofd, and he collected there soldiers from
Sandhurst and e/sewhere, as he wrote to the
dowager, in their " military clothes " Surely this was not
the way in which an officer in the army would have written.
The plaintiff told the men various things that he might
have heard from Carter, and they upon this recognised him.
The plaintiff at this time had & complete account of the
officers of the regiment, the movements of the regiment,
and an outline of the military life of Roger. This he had
obtained from head-quarters. In this account there were
the very words which had had such an influence upon one
of the officers of the regiment, who had "marched from
Canterbury to Herne Bay." lie also had as much knowledge
as the various fliers whom he had seen could pour into him,
for there was doubtless not one Dom whom Ise had not suc-
ceeded in extracting something.
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After describing- the inter-views between several other
gentlemen, and the incidents conneeted therewith, the
Attorney-General continued :—Then came the plaintiff's ex-
amination at the Law Institution. lie hail there a list
of the Jesuit Fathers, all the particulars in reference
to the regiment, and all the shipping information
which could be got from Lloyd's and the Shipping
Gazette. It appeared from the plaintiff's own letters at
this time he was very busy for a week, being pre-
pared for the examination. The plaintiff, however, in the
witness-box said Mit he did not recollect there being any
such preparation. At this time also he had Roger's letters
written from South America ; mid it was plain that there
were diaries kept by Roger. The plaintitf said that the
diaries were left with Goldoni, but this was not the truth,
and no doubt Roger left them with his father or mother.
The only book produced seas handed in just before
the plaintiff's case closed, and that only contained a few
memoranda. All the books and papers of Roger that the
Dowager had would be at the command of the plaintiff.
Carter, it was plain, was taken to the Law Institution to point
out to the plaintiff persons he slid not know. There were pre-
sent many persons whom the real Roger must have known.
There was Lord Arundel, his schoolfellow, Lady Doughty,
Ids most affectionate aunt, Alfred Seymour, and other per-
sons, lie sat close to these ladies and gentlemen, but he
showed no aigns of recognition to any one of them. Cap-
tain Polhill Turner and Captain Fraser also were quite un-
recognised the other day, but on the second day Carter had
told him who they were.
The further hearing was again adjourned shortly before
four o'clock.

The Attorney-G•neral, before proceeding with his address
on Wednesday morning, observed that certain ingenious
people lint been passing comments on the length of
his speech, and saying that it ought to have been over
in a day and a half. The fact was that the jury
were now hearing for the first time a connected
account of this case from its very beginning, and it
was necessary, in order to fully understand all the facts, that
lie should address them at considerable length. Ile hoped
the jury would acquit him of any desire or intention to
detain them longer than was absolutely necessary.
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The Lord Chief Justice said he Was of opinion that the
Attorney-General had not wasted one moment since the
commencement of his speech. In this remark the jury

concurred.

The Attorney-General then proceeded to refer to the cross-
examination of the claimant, which took place before Mr.
Ronnell in certain Chancery proceedings in July, 1807.
On that occasion the claimant stated that he assumed the
name of De Castro on his arrival in Australia, because he
slid not wish to have his own name known. He chose the
name of De Castro for private reasons, but he declined to
say what those reasons were, lie first obtained a living by
breaking in horses, and then he became a butcher, and after-
wards a slaughter-man in Wagga-Wagga. In January, 1859,
he married a domestic servant, who was only educated "a
little." Ile failed in the business of a butcher, and only paid
some of his creditors. It never occurred to him to write to
Iris father, Oil- James Tiehbome, for money to pay his debts.
He declined to say whether he had hail any quarrel
with his father or Lady Tiehborne. When cross-exa-
mined in this court, however, he distinctly stated that
the reason for not writing to his parents was in con-
sequence of sonic quarrel. Ile could not say for
certain what was the name of the vessel which took
him to Australia after lie was wrecked in the Bella, though
he was under the impression it was the Osprey. He cmid
not remember whether he told the captain that he was the
eldest son of a baronet. He did not know the names of any
of the crew, and in fact he knew scarcely anything of the
vessel. 1 hough the claimant knew nothing about the Osprey,
however, the defendants (lid. They had traced the ship, and
they would prove that it was absolutely impossible that
the real Roger Tichborne could have been on board of
her. She was in quite a different part of the world to where
Roger Tichborne was. The Della was in South America
and the Osprey in Western Australia. It would be proved
that the claimant had said at one time that the name of the
vessel which picked him up from the Bella was the Themis,
but, having discovered that the mate of the Themis was
alive and might prove his statement to be false, no fixed
upon the name of the th.prey. When he left Australia the
claimant said he went first to Panama and then to New York,
where he stayed about a month. When before the examiner
in Chancery he was asked to give an account of the wreck
of the Bella, but he declined to do so, though
he said he would answer any specific questions
which were put to him on the subject. Of course
it was easy to understand why the claimant re-
fused to describe the wreck, provided he never was wrecked
at all, and in fact was never on board the Della. When he
got to London the claimant never went near Glyn's, the
hanker's, though the real Roger Tichborne had a balance in
his favour there. He obtained money from other people,
and he said it never occurred to him to draw a cheque on
Glyn's. lie also said that he was never in prison in Aus-
tralia, whilst in the witness.box they knew that he
said he had been arrested upon the charge of "unlaw-
fully Asing a horse." The claimant told the examiner
that he was born in Paris, though to other people he said he
was born in Dorsetshire. While in Paris he said he did not
gate school, but was under a tutor whose name he had for-
gotten. He was taught to read and write, but he could not
recollect whether he received instruction on any other sub-
jects. On one occasion he said he "might have went" to
England with his father. He took a tour through France
with his tutor, but he could not recollect the names of any
of the places he visited. His memory, however, had
since been wonderfully refreshed on this point, because
when examined in this court he remembered the names
of all the places where he went to and the incidents which
occurred during this tour. Ile said he did not remember
the names of any of his associates or playmates in Paris. lie
was asked if be recollected the names of any young ladies
with whom he danced while living in Paris, lint he declined
to answer the question on the ground that it would be im-
proper to mention their names in a public court. The
claimant was such a real gentleman that he would, not
publicly mention the names of the young ladies he used to
dance with ! When he came to England the claimant said he
was sent to the Jesuit College at Stonyhurst, though he did
not remember the names of the principal or headmaster, or any
other persons whom he met there. He said he went through
the general course of a college education, but what that
course consisted of he was unable to say. He said he could
not recollect whether he had ever learned Greek. Dickens in
one of his books said that the Romans were the natural
enemies of all schoolboys, but lathe opinion of the Attorney-
General the Greeks were still more implacable foes, because
any boy who had learned any Greek at school would be
sure never to forget the fact. The claimant, however, could
not recollect anything on the subject, and, in fact, through-
out the whole of his examination before the Examiner in

Chancery he scarcely remembered an incident in the early
life of Roger Tichborne, and no doubt his Ignorance at that
period was perfectly genuine. By the time, however, he was
called as a witness in this court he had been " coached "in
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the necessary particulars, and he could then state things
which when before the ('ha' wry Court he recollected no-
thing about. During the proceedings in Chancery, the
court was attended by several members of the itch-
borne family, and other persons who had been on familiar
terms with the real Roger Tichborne, but the claimant,
when asked if he recognised any of these persons admitted
that he did not.

In re-examination the witness was asked what latitude he
was picked up in, but he said that he could not tell whether
it was lor 1,000. (Laughter). Ilia own counsel put it to
him that the ()Rimy was larger than the Bella; he said
"Yes,' but then fearing to commit himself he added,
"That is she had the appearance of being larger
you know.'' (A laugh). After a day's adjournment
the plaintiff then recollected the fall upon the
rocks at Pornie, or, as he pronounced it, Fannie.
It was a fact that the real Roger had had a tour in Brittany,
and an accident on that occasion happened to him; and,
after spending an evening with the dowager, the plaintiff
pretended to recollect it. lie also said that he then recol-
lected as priests at Stonyhurst M'Cann and Clough (which
he pronounced Clow). Ile also said that he recollected two
brothers Cooper; he thought they were priests, but he could
not recollect. There was also there, he said, an Italian named
Glmaderell, or Glundaro, or some such name. At this time
the plaintiff had seen a list of Jesuit priests at Stonyhurst,
and his memory hail somewhat improved. But it was not
improved at all in reference to scholars, of whom he could
name only two—Petre and Arundel; and the answer was
that there was no Petre there, and Arundel he did not know
when he saw him 'at the examination. In the list of the
Jesuit Fathers which the plaintiff had Been, there were the
names of the two Coopers, MacCann and Clough, while the
only Italian name in the list was that of Antonio Casidona,
which was apparently too much for him. He believed that
he (the Attorney-General) should be able to show that some
of the fathers whose names the plaintiff had pretended to
recollect were not at the college during the three years that
Roger was there. On this occasion the plaintiff recollected
also he had been at Mellipilla ; and he was obliged to recollect
it for the purpose of showing how he happened to take the
name of Thomas Castro, who lived there. Rogers letters
showed that he himself had never been at Mellipilla, and the
plaintiff no doubt knew this from Roger's letters, and pro-
bably from his diaries. The plaintiff, however, placed the
visit to Mellipilla as coming in in the course of a particu-
lar journey, but when in the witness-box, he had found
that this would not she, and he, therefore, then placed it
as coming in upon the return journey. It was hoped that
the jury, before the case was over, would see that the visit
would tit as ill upon this journey as upon the other,
When the name of Mellipilla was first mentioned there
was seine discussion where it should be mentioned in Mr.
Ronpell's notes, and in this way "via H ellipilla" came to
be inserted in the earlier part of the proceedings. He the
Attorney-Generiil) asked the jury to contrast what would
have been the probable evidence of the real Roger with the
miserable scraps of evidence which was fished up by the
plaintiff.
After referring to other interviews and incidents, the
Attorney-General continued —Then the plaintiff went
to Bath, armed with printed affidavits, and saw the Allens,
old set vent.; of the family, and he saw also the two Macalines
at different times, and both of them were led captive by the
statement that their father had taught him the French horn,
they knowing that their father had taught koger that instru-
ment. Mr. and Mrs. Allen, who had been servants to Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Tichborne, were captured by the plaintiff,
knowing that portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 'ffichborne
were in one of their rooms. It appeared that the plaintiff
knew who he was going to see, for the interview had been ar-
ranged, and 11 the plaintiff had not been told by Rouse, who
had been there, of the existence of the portraits, still it was but
an easy shot for him to make that the portraits f onnd under such
circumstances were those of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tichborne.
The lady was represented doing needlework, and the plain-
tiff need this information to describe Mrs. R. Tichborne
as
being very fond of needle work. The plaintiff also captivated
the witnesses by talking of Mrs. It. Tichborne's favourite
hunter " Cock Robin," whilst the fact was that the horse
was dead long before Roger's time, and he would know
nothing about it.
The Attorney-General then referred to the claimant's in-
terviews wlth General Custance, Captain Pinckney and Mr.
Morley, and at four o'clock the case was again adjourned.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the
receipt of Ds. ad. from "5.J.N.," as " Conscience Money." .