The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-28 00:00:00

THE TIOBBORNI TRIAL.

During the week the premed's. have been relieved
somewhat of the esonwtosy of whaessits from Wapping,
witnesses from Australia, and ad Osrabiseen, by the
appearasice in the whams-box of 81: W. Ferguisos, sod
ea Wednesday by the armouneement of sadden Wales
of Dr. Keligely. He was sufferiss from comaiieratile
mental acroitemmt, aoosopsoied with symptom' of low
(ever; sod although his medical advisers eoaddered s
short repose absoletely oftessary, the learned pommel
wee la court again on Thursday morning, but denoted
the task of putting Mr W. lergusson under ezamlastios
to Mr. Moldation.

Bit Milian Ferguson's evidence related entirely to
the sous and other peculiarities about the defendant,
I. which Mr. Bussed Holt and Mr. Seymour Helen
have already deposed on the Fart of the pro caution.
I It appeared from his statements that he had three
times made • suety more or lees emplane of the
&student's body before the witness gave evidence on
the ejectment trial in Dumber 1871; and that he bad
on the night before last again mine an examinatioa,
and had some conversation with the defendant with
regard to morale soars. As to the sear on the baok of
the bead, whieh the defendant alleges wes the result
of the aceident to Roger Tiobbernis at Punic, in
Brittany, when • boy, the witness &peed that it might
have been moduled by a fall on • rock, U the rook
were sharp. Thu there were the eapposed mans of
an lune on the arm, which the winues sail might have
been mused by an issue with a pea of the kind thet has
been duerlbed. Ile had not found on the arm any
bleeding marks, though bludlog marks, as • rule, did
not disappear. With regard to the ankles, however,
be had Vaud marks which the defendant &Berra are
the result of the surgeon Moore's °pentium with the
1 buret of Centerbuy. rts. witness then approached
the sou on the left forearm, about widish so enacts hae
been said; and this he stated might have been caused
by • slob from • sharp-pointed instrument, like that of
which bbs witness Lurie spoke the other day; but it
would be "large for that," and there must have been •
great deal of &apparition to usual; foe Its sharer
teristios. A. to the " shunned thasab"—or partially-
loose thumb-nail—the wither thought It looked like
the result of some damage the defendeal had seatained
at some former period. He did sot think it was meat,
and be expressed double of Mr. Bolt's theory that the
appeamesseeenld be produeed by artilioist means. Being
reminded that Mr. Holt had dimmed that, by way of
experiment, he had aritually produeed the same sp-
peens°. on his esen thumb, Sir William said he had
seen Mr. Holt's thumb, and tams the awareness wee
different; but he admitted that this was "three months
after Mx Holt had imased to mitaipalette it in the way
be bad deuribed."—The erearexamination of Sir
William lustros by Mr. li•wkins was long sad eir.
ouoistantieL Si, William, is answer to cautious, ad-
mitted that there was no seer on tte eyelid, or Cokes
of any fieb-hook having pseud through It; that all the
marks on the tau might have been sensed by • fall;
end that In the coarse of three exunia&tions referred
to, and down to the time of his giving Isis unease on
the last W_el , his attention bed Dever bees directed to
say teeußeirity of the thumb. This peoaliasity, he
added, wee nob "eouguital," bat mut have mimeo
from phyaieel awe; and be said that on the night
before the deloadeat told him hie had reaelved
some injury then; bet that he said nothiag mora—
le reeramistalica on this poiat he also said that the
defeadut appeared Mitsui and undue about wing
anything store ocieurnlng them matters than was asked
of him. With regard to the mar on the left forearm,
which the procuration &anted to be on the spot In which
Arthur Onus had the tattooed initials, A. 0, Sir
William Ferguson, in uswer to Mr. Hawkins, also
stated that the degraded told him that "be .aid not
aterount for it'" and the wither admitted that the
sued from which it revolted must have sensed pain
and inconvenient's for • cessiderable thee He also said
that "ii bad the appointees of shwa, though in a very
unusual plue for • barn." With regard to the sear
on the tinkles, Bic William admitted that the inelabas
indieted had been made "whore there wee no vain
widish any wpm esevenut with his prafeanlon would
dream of opulag." He edded, however, that it km
"jut within the bean& of poseibility that ke might
out then ;" but it was dished that "In all the soars'
of his experieees be &ever knew • profeesineal man eat
there for bleediag " A number of minor
points were eintiraesdPurrrhe exasaleation, but the
Apailleanse of theme mould net be made latelligible
without tediums reforeaus be bygone evidestoe.
On Friday the BM Wiesen celled woe Dr. David
Wilson, of Brukehresi( Greeveeer-winare, who was
exemined by Dr. Keeesly as to the aUeged malformation
of the defendant, and ales to the marks ea his body:-
11r. Whalley, M.P., who tiros watered the box, said ha
was sallied to the bar in 1837 or 1838, and practised for
several years Were he entered Parilasuct. He had
goes with the defendant to many aseediage throughout
the country, and seen many pumas who were sailed as
witnesses in this este, but deeded positively that he bad
ever &sashed any of than, or eommunleated what they
had said to him before they saw the defendant. He
repelled snob a obsess. In isoesequenee of the vitae.
EAU turning up he proceeded to Amines, and made
iequiriee in New York, Perthamboy, New B dford,
Montreal, and Qmebee. On his return to England on
the 4th or sth or September list be made • report to
the defendant's legal Weiser, as to the remits of his
inquiries. He Brit saw the defendant in tie early pan
of Marsh, 187 L Be did not know him before. He
very rarely saw him afterwards erupt when he easom-
puled him both, country. He grit met him at •
friend's at dinner, and be noticed that he had the
bearing of a gentleman in every reepeot. Mr. Whalley
then said that he by letter offered to give the Tr.s.ury
the result of his Inquiries in Arnerice.—Oroore
by Mr. Sergeant Parry: I knew nothing about Roger
Tichborne or the Tiebborne family. I have taken
great interest in the defendant Mau I was introdueed
to him, and attended tug many of his meetings.—
What was your motive 2 est do you meant—Eta,.
you not elated publicly that this prosecution of the
defendant was • Popish plot —I have not Mated that
publicly, but I have my own opinion on the sublitet.
—Cleve you stated either publicly er privately that
this was • Jesuit or Popish °maples°, to deprive the
deripagns of his right. f —Undoubtedly that Is
epinion.—The Lord Chief Janie, did not tHlak that
Mr. Whalley weld throw any light on the ease, and
uscientood he wee merely dmire.s of diraying that there
was any foundation foe saying that he bad temparod
with witnesses or oomasnlsalsd what they told him
to the defendent.—Thre• other withers'
summed, and the (loan adjourned.

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[it =maw TaLSOLAPH.I
D. Hansaly, Mow some unimporMat witnesses this
morning, making more thao two hundred • eighty eight,
eaaesoeed that the ease for the defendaat WIWI dosed.
Ilawkins applied for. short adjournment to sal
rebutting midonee, and tie Court reined to comedic,

Tbe eosserrativir of Temston have determined to
mount fillr Alfred Slade with • testimonial In mosidemr
MIS el the gallant and noble way In wkiii be hued
Muir battle at the late *lefties. About £l5O kr bees
pabeetilted already:

FIIIOEITFUL NEW FROM BRAZIL MUSH
CHILDREN SOLD INTO SLAVERY, BY THlja

OWN PARENTS.

The Nora arrived at Southampton on Wednesday
',youths. She had oa board Bias of ihi emlgraate eke
I left Bog land Mat year for Bradt They describe the
wagering' iodated as something fearful, sod they
asst..s dam rimy were told by some of the parses'
tlismaellos tiled at Among., Dermal a the sweigraats
were reduced to mash straits by destiattion
1 starvation that they were astually omipelled to reg
their own children to native, of the oountry ter twenty
Indians each, to get food to save themselves from
death I The tithe were we believe, illegal sets, amerd.
lug to the law of Brtsd Itself, where alar..ry is bail
eitloguiehed, It bang provided that all who was be,,
Ms of slave watts, after n certain date, we believe
after the time of the struggles for Wooly, should be
free. It is 1110 f• oust than ever that these teleg
'timid to investigated, and • oommissioner mat out by
the British Governmeat with powers to saqiZ
to direct those who stay in the galosh
to reams the poor English children sold late
Wegal slavery in Breed. Whatever be the law
of Braid, whether the villainous slave trails he
stUl remitted or not, we bold that the poorest sad
weaker* of Gime who were ever Micas eau never he
held as dares. If they are so held, oar Government, m
say nothing of Beglith charity, ought to ream them
from that mixed mull of Portuguese., metro's, lodises,
yello•-bolli a, sambas, end heti and gamier brads, so
we would any of oar muntrymen from Abyslatia, or
Ashanti*. But there toed not be asy suet raillioltj I.
the mother, If the reporta mown:dog the geodesist"( the
&amnia Emperor have any foundmioa in them. His
Majesty would not throw • hind:mos Is the way of eu
restoring English shlkiren to freedom. It may be said
that the parents kayo voluntarily sold them ; bat they
ran have no right, moral or lagal, to alienate the freedom
of any other British penal. Far be it from us to jedge
or condemn the poor Marvin seals for what they dad,
when deluded by falai. promises, sunk to degradation
sad atmeration, ad for away from their own land ; but
the Ltd* opal must every one be sought oat sad
rescued. . . . .