The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-03-03 00:00:00

CLOSE OF THE TIOHBORNE

TRIAL.

The trial of the Tiohborne Claimant, which had
oecupied 188 days, was brought to • close on Saturday
amid avaii menifestation of public Interest. Tho court
was crowded to ever. With aomethiug more than
punctuality the enormous prime who was to play so
passive and yet Co important • part in the last act of
the greet Tiobborne dram., made his appearance, and
took his place, neatly attired la dark blue frock coat,
as ueuel at the little green leis table confronting Mr.
Justice Mellor In the " well" of the court. On his left
sat his secretary and faithful "shepherd of his 8 Kir." of
Wapping sritarees, Mr. Harding, and with him his
attorney, Mr. Harooutt. On his right was the fia•
mulatto, young Bogle, who Les Lad t:me to grow from
a child into • man since the Ticboorne csse was also in
its childhood. There, on the green twee, lay the WO
leather reticule bag in which Mr- defendant's letters
have regularly every morning, awaited his lospeceion.
There was the pair of scissors whioh Las often afforded
hint 11D11100 and pastime when Mr. 'Dovish A was making
disagreeable observations, or when Dr. 1G wisely was
deneieg that his client ever hod oue single
good quality about him, and vowing that b.fore he sat
down be would "strip that joy" Roger Tichborne "of Ida
borrowed plumes." There, LOO, was th• little pocket
clUstionary, an Zoglieh " Webster °undimmed," by the aid
01 which he had leernt to eschew such doubtful par-
ticiples as " worretted" and "busted," to steer clear
if " ineuntaynious" cifil,ulties, and to know the tree
orthography of "sparrowgraes," that secureed veget-
•b'e, which, from the hoar when his Invitation to "my
dear mamma" to partekeof it in conjunction with lamb
fell into the bands of counsel, oeusad him to boss
olj ot of dens on to bls CLOMION, arid furnished Sir
John Coleridge with an argument in favour of the view
that not Paris, bet High-street, Wapping, was his ,
tastier) home.
It was jest on tbo stroke of ten, and the jar, were
all in their box when the buss in court took • new
tone, Dr. Zeoeidy —so rare • sight of late—having made
his appearance in the attire of • Q-1•011.1 Counsel. art-
dog In the front row as leading advocete of the defen-
dant in the cause. Behind him Mr. McMahon and Mr.
Cooper Wyld, were also in their plaoes, and on Vs
opposite side the contending forces led by Mr. Hawkins
sod Mr. !delimit Parry were calmly &welting the hews
of tLe contest. Down dropped all the standing multi-
tude es the appearance of the judges' clerk and Master
Cockburn from behind the claret-coloured curtains
which sheltered the bench betokened tbe advent of the
Judges, and then the liar rose again, and with thtm
the defendant. to make the enatomary obeisance.,
while the Lord Chief Justice, after a momentary
arrangement of his papers, commenced once more with
the familiar words. "Gentlemen of the Jury."
Tie Lord Chief Justice now "gathered together the
thread of this tangled story," and rapidly mewed iu
review the more prominent and salient points of HA,
remarkable case. Wsn the deice 'ant Arthur Orton or
not? In order to enable the jury to smelter this
question, his Lordship presented tnem with a summary
of the leading incident. in Orton's eater, as they bed
been proved in the witness-box. He ea led th-ir
attention to the ignoranoi displayed by the defendant,
in the earlier stages of his claim of facts which must
have been known to Heger Tieeborne ; to the sec icious
visit to Wapping on the night of his arrival in Zeeland :
to tl,e eirounistaeoes under which he had his Mat
iuterview with Lady Tichboree ; mid to his story of he
shipwreck, "which no man in bit senses weld believe,
and which nautical experiense and knowledge at once
condemned." lierawing the life rebirth the defendant
had led in Australis ha asked them to contrider why
the idea of being • aockmao or • butcher should have
ever entered the heed of Kogei Tichbarne ? Was his
marriage OEM which Hager Tichbori.e would have ured•
If he had ever intended to return to this country ?
These and other point, were placied before the j iry,
the Lord Chief Justioe I:reminding with • strongly-
worded protest aga,nst the laugunge lured towards toe
judges by the defendant's oatmeal, and the pr'-.sure
sought to be brought to boar upon the Court by
appeals to the outside nubile. Mr. Justine Mellor and
Yr. Just's. Lush briefly expreimed their 001101/1711000
with the ruling of the Lerd Chief Justice.
At the °lose of his ramming up the Lord Geier
Juatice reverted to the conduct of the prie,neee
counsel singling out • pusses in which Dr. K-.n.ualy
had spoken of Incidents in the trial as baying ".lurred :
cad sulded the names of certain Individuals—isadividuels
in whose Oozy many of us wore concerned." His lord-
ship, eddres.ing the bir with great elequence and '
emotion, said that to them ho left the protection of his
judicial memory. The appeal was antwered with •
burst of applause from the assembled barristers. The
many ehatioes of a break down of a trial that had
extended over the great part of a twelve-mooth were
at last exhausted. There was new but one faint hope
for defendant and that was in the j try box, whither Lis
eyes ampordingly returned again nut again with the
wearied look of one who would rerh-2 know the worst
atone' then wait another half bear even for the chance
of acquittal.
Torero very noticeable hilividuals were silting below
the Master's table, right over against Orton. One was
a well.builtgentlemau with a grey beard and moustache.
Another was very personable to look at, with a military
and somewhat of • cavalry air who wore ample
moustombes and whiskere, and his well-pemetunied
locks 'irefully parted down the millie. Taey were all
In quiet and decorous civilian garb--dark overocrets,
: dint neck .carves; and the milit.ry-louking goutletnan
wore a horseshoe pia in his °teem ; sod, to the ob-
serving eye every lots of their garb, their port and
mien and behaviour, spoke unmistsirebly terms two
words: "Scotland Yard." They were„idleed, officers
of the detective forte; two more of their coefrd ea w„,e
close by; and their business was to keep their llalor °Qua
eyes on the defendant, and to take core that he elsould
not do himself nor any one else • misohief if matters
went, from his point of view, wrong. There was no
knowing what he might do, looking at the retaarkab'y
eacentrio things he was shrewd y susincted to have
already done. He Hi, from first to lest, nothing
desperate at all; and really surprised us all after his
conviction by the quiet firmness of his demeanour.
Still, there was no knowing what mad attempt he might
upon eitherth ete to
The d el
policety wouldhimself
a cot
hht.tiheoliv ye
sharpest
without
.huveitt mog feotavehn: warranted"..tg,
in searching him before he mitered the evert to steer.
Laid whether he happened to have mush • tr;lllag tn.tter
lest he should exhibit symptoms of " ugh.
as a revolver or a phial of prauto act i about him' and
all that
oe
leb detectives
wdoeun-enwell-nigh
weretoueklsedep
osupon
Theuh
stretching forward their bother, they might with their
long
from their seats. _ .

There warn • sudden outburst of long pent-up °halter-
ing as the jury, finally di.Meited to °onside- their
verdict. literally fought their way by the aid of the
polio. through the marl of barristers and other persona
in the sli• prologs of the eourt. It was then only ten
inlautee peat noon; but everybody had been up early
that morning, and sanielebet and sherry broke
forth M all paints whiM the chattering grew loader and
louder, and for some time nobody bus the defendant
looked up at the clock. It was curious to observe
during the interval that followed how ent:rely the cute
actor iu the some was disregarded. Except his three
unpleasant neighbours, nobody now turned hie eyrie
towards the green balsa table. A quarter of an hour
—then twenty minute. had elapsed. Wes there a
difference of opinion Had the one obstinate jurvm to,
"wise in his own oonceit," whom the Lord Chief
Justice had forewarned, suddenly made his appeerat cc ?
Who could say but the defendant's oountonanoe
oertoinly grew brighter as the otioures pulsed. Bet
then there was an ominous bustle, at 12.31 the word.
"the jury are writing" ran through be assembly, and
everybody remarked that one or other they had made
up their minds, or why return so soon This time for
easier passage the twelve were conduoted by the tip•
staff along the well of the court, brushing u they passed
the table of the defendant. Then the 'pouting lip"
became disturbed again ; the famous "twitch," or up
and down movement of the wrinkles in the brow,
became for • moment perceptible, and fluidly the
features settled down again into the old sullen,
diseoutent d look. It was easy to i.e that to one
man at least, though he wee not in the jury box, the
result was already practically known. Before the last
of the twelve had settled down the manic° gold chain
'tr. Whine from pocket to pocket of the defenient's
vast breadth of walsooat was detached, and, with the
chronometer watch, handed by him to the custody of
young Bogle' etch the alacrity of a man who know well
enough that his minutes of liberty were numbered.
Dead silence prevailed among the whale assembly as
the judges resumed their seats, and Master Cockburn
in bhp wig and gown rose, and, having nailed over the
Dames of the jury, salted, " Gentlemen are you agreed
on your verdict? "We are,'' was the reply ; and,
when the usual rp.remony had been gone through, and
• verdict of " Guilty "returned on the two °Quote. Mr.
Dickens, the foreman, in a grin, clear voice, read •
paper announcing that the jury were agreed upon the
three great issues, which include all the reel, involved
in the Indiotment—uarnely, that the defendant is not
Roger Tiohborne ; that he did not seduce Lily
Kedah& —to which was appended the opinion that
there Is not the sligh"est evidence that Roger Tich-
b,..rne was ever gutliy of any undue familiarity what-
ever with tat lady; and thirdly, they were agreed
that the defendant us Arthur Orton. A further paper,
handed up by the jury, censuring, in severe terms, the
unfounded charges of Dr. Kenealy, as well as the
violent language and demeanour of that gentleman,
ce.
was then read aloud by the Lord Mist Justice.
The Tipstaff here direeted the Defendant to stand up
and rudest senten Upon this he arose,
and, with
his hands on the table before him. awaited his doom.
He seemed greatly surprised that it should come from
the lips of Mr.. Justice

711111 ILITr
Mr. Justloe Mellor passed isotope° in the folowing
terms :—Toomss Cum°, otherwise °ailed Arthur Orton,
otherwise celled Reiter Charlse Doughty Tsetboror,
Baronet, after • trial of unexampled &titration, you hare
been convicted by • fury of the several peijuriciitherld
In the Donuts of this Indiotment, sod which w.",.iru
described by your own counsel as " primal wl,l?l°7' etr
foul as Jurtioe ever raised her sword tea u
mosbe r e.:cintlf r:ottni
trial of your our, the jury hare exhibitcl 11aza
patiesoe, and intelligenoe newer surpe..oo.; Indeed,
yvio"urlUo°whemoot4oo.llllt4,rsei t In ehlePirrisvlierd°°::
Indeed, tv unanimous approval of the Doer,.
to ooneeive bow any person who h°° eaelkiered the
Intrinsiso=bablll
M _ el - year story, and has [Medi-
mu" orkbas• Wes to the ~is 4

the trial, could have come to any other oonolusion. The
testimony of individuals, however num.rous and respect-
able the 4 be, to your personal identity either with
Arthur Orion or 'ugh Rog, r Tiehborne afk r SJ groat a
lapee of time, is of little value exempt in iostanoes
where there are 'pedal reasons for observing,
and special interest in remembering. Of canna
the imidenre of Mile Leder, of the faint!, of
Roger Tchherne, and Gotforh is of great
ortanits in this ease, and I pause for a moment
to sty, speaking for myself at all imitate, that kir 6..5.
fort bee pltood yublic justice greatly in his debt. The
entire ignorance of the malts language of Roger T.ch.
borne whieb you displayed, acoompanied by the partial
aoqoisition of another language, the tattoo marks whioh
were proved to have existed upon the persm of Roger
Tiohborne and the letters written by you, whether in
the cbararer of Roger Tichborue or of Arthur Orton,
the admienions expressly made or implied in your eon-
duct, and all that is known of the history of the life
and character of Roger Tiobborne and yourself, present
an accumulation of proaf snob as can rarely be given Is
a genet of justice, and which oonolusively demonstrates
the propriety of the verdict of the jury. No man can
look with unprejudiced mind and Calt&C obeervation
upon the letters of Roger Tiebborne without coming to
the conclusion that they were never written by you ;
whilst between the undoubted letters of Arthur Orton
and yourself there is en identity most complete and
conclusive. Of what avail is evidence that you are not
Arthur Orton as ae &lost the eircumataocte of your visit
to Wapping, assumption of a false name, and your
correspondencre and dealings with the family of Arthur
Orton. Then there is the fact that your °morsel did cot
put into the box the sitters of Arthur Ortoo, who had
made affidavits in your favour, and who were p05.....g
of knouledge which would have enlighted the Court
on the important question of 'bowleg whether it
was possible you could be Roger Tiohborne. How
you were led from one degree of knowledge to another,
and how you were then iufloenced in coueectieg and
enlarging the fraud may be left to question. But, in
the carrying out of your scheme, you beeitated at no
amount of poijdry at Vie teal. You eudeavourcd to
impose yourself upon the tuirlic as Roger Tiehborne,
and you endeavoured to defraud thu youthful heir of
his just right.. But great as wee the wickedoess, it
seems oomparatively swall when compered with the
injurious accusation by which you sought to blast t/3e
character of a lady of unsullied character, and the false,
and fool AIM vile accusatioes by which it was sought to
establish the charge. Happily there have not been
wanting the means of refuting that eowardly calumny,
and those base been supplied to a wonderful degree.
That doi s not diminish the b aeneffa of your conduct.
Toe punishment about to be a ousted is wholly
inadequate to the gravity of the offence*, the enormity
of which was never contemplated when the act of
parliament 'decreed such a punishment. The
renitence of the Court, which I now pronounce, is that
for the perjury charged in the first count of the Jodie-
merit you be kept in petrel servitude for the term of
seven years ; and that for the perjury charged in the
second count of the indictment, you be kept In penal
servitude for • further term of seven year, to commonly*
on the expiratian of the punishment far °Deviation on
the first went.

During this brief addreu the defeadant stood with
bead slightly bent, and evidetCy listening attentively.
From time to time Le nude an effort to moisten his lips
with hie tongue ; Lis hands wandered from hie trouser-
pockets to the button-hobs of hie coat, and his huge
form assumed a sureely per.mptible oscillatory move-
ment. The sallow bus that had spread over his features
la those few moments Indicated the feet that nerves
not easily moved bad fi It • shook to which few nice
Li that position c uld have failed to be sensible. At
the oorm!usion of the eutectie he looked up, and, with
• painful .mile, addr,satiag apparently the Lord Chief
Justice, Inquired, "May I reply, my lord?" "Eh ?"
jaculsted his lordship, who had evidently been
prevented by the slight stir In Court from catching
the question, which wu then repeated in the
modal .4 form, " May I be allowed to say a few
word,?" "Certainly not," replied his lordship; and
then • swift tap on the shoulder from the Mints!, ,gff
minded the questioner that lila liberty was forfeited to
the law. There was • hurried shake of the hands with
Dr. K-nealy, who said "good bye" rather coldly; and,
with the tipsteff preceding, and the three men whose
flues bad probably been already Imprinted for life
ur 0 1 Us memory, Arthur Orion, alias Thoman Castro,
alias tilt Roger Charles Tiohborne, Baronet, was taken
away.
The convict was taken to Nswgats by a olroaltous
route. Only onee he broke silence. "It's very hot,"
be tail, panting along the passages of the House. of
COUIOIOIIP, "aid I'm so fat." He wes not handcuffed.
At Newirete he had the utile "manic bath." A scarf
yin was taken from him. Ifs was to be "cropped" on
Monday. Till • convict drew can be made he wears his
own clothes. He remains taciturn. He reported him.
self • Roman Catholic. On Sunday morning he
partook heartily of hls prison breakfast of gruel and
breed.

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Fabius'', Li, at Hamilton House, Lady Cornet:a
Guest. of • sou.

Februtry 16, at Tenant Keynatoo, the wife of Kr.
Shave, of • cltughter.
Fobfumy 16, at 11, Darset Esce, Weymouth, the
wile of Mr. T. Watkins, o: • EOM
I. biu.ry 17, at Upwey, the wife of Mr. F. G.
Chrlatopher,.of a sou.
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I—it-Fa.r.hatn, the wife of Mr. J. Watts.
of Growthorne, Bra, a • tl.iughter.
robra.r) 19, at iiatri..g.toue IJ.gry, Darotiester, this
wife of Mr. J. Lauer, of • thughter.
February 22, at Lunghtli•valla, Hotirrell, th• wife of
Mr. G. A. C,urt, of a damortit,r.
February 23, at Wood,lord, tie wife of Mr. W.
Squibb, of • sun.
February 24, at Tue Lawn, B Annan:looh, the wile of
Mr. lloratiu A. Wilkinson, of W.rt,to•ad, of • girl.
Februsry 26, at Blandlord, the was of Mr. W. W.
Stioklaud, of • dau,rbter.
February 26, at Noith Square, Dorohester, the wife
of Mr. G Cl el, of • sou.
?thrum; 27, at Ilierb-street, FJr,liogtoa. Dorchester,
the wife of Mr. G. Pit, engine driver, B.W.R, of •
11011.