The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-01 00:00:00


THE TICHBORNE TRIAL

HUNDRED AND TWEN CY•FOURTiI DAY.
The trial was resumed on Monday, when their lord-
ships took thei seats at • few Lumistes past twelve
o'clock.
J.dlX TAYLOR, examined by Mr. Kenealy : lain prOprietnr
of scs "it yal" kloteL D •rhy. heed at FILMT y • cosil
macy years ago. I was then Intimate with a good many
noblemen and gentlemen connect,' with ib,, turf I
memner m.skulg a bet with Johnny Broome. I think it was
In 1549 In consequence of a letterl received from Broome,
I west to his Maw, the " Rising Sun," Ln air-street. PI.Na
dilly. I saw him there, and he introduced me lute his back
parlour. !saw there throe or four gentlemen He said he
had got some swells in the back parlour. I was not nitro-
dersid to any of the gentlemen
Did Johnqy Broome point out any one of the gentlemen
to you I—Yes, he did.
Who dnf he say he was
Mr. Hawkins I don't see, my loci. how that can artes.
Mr. Keuealy roe wituees was present, and lii. said that
the de,rndant is the gentleman (Seger Tichborne.)
The Lord Cxlet Justice : That has not begun said at pre-
lent. _

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Mr. Swiftly : It will come.
The Lord Chief Justice L altar tht party of whom this was
said Ward what was said we cahoot have it.
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Mr. K,n« sly . Was the gentleman near enough to hear him
point Una coit to oh!
Witness: If. eta neer erongh
Toe I,rl eq'et Justice Di he hear whit sem sald—wits
be sea enough

Witnru : Ile was.., .ord
Mr IC-Lady : W 0.% did Johnny Broome ssy !
Mr. H satins : I onject to that
Mr. Juirice Mellor , if a man lutrod ace* one gentleman to
another Stint la circumstance, but what ois man may say to
another with refersuce to • third parti le another thing.
Mr Hawkins : was not an let,: dwitinn
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The LA,: h,el Justice ,to the ugliest) : Were you Intro-
duced t , the gontleman
Witness less not. . .

Mr Kemal, : Canyon give my dascriptlon of the young
man /
Witness: He was s young man, tall, not stout, a fah.
sized man. I have forgotten all other appearance of him
but that.

How long were you there t—Perhaps twenty minute.
Might be halt an hoar, not longer I should my. I don't
remember. I cannot say that I heard bine talk. Tney were
Mandh g drinking champagne.
By Mr. JusUce Mellor; I think this occurred In May,
184 P.

By Mr. Reneely: I should say that they held • race meet-
log at that time at Brighton In Ste summer. Thin was prior
SO tbe Speom Spring Meetirg—the Metropolitan.
Mr. teneaiy Does your lordship hold that I can give any
evidence of what took plam?
Ti,. Lord Chief Justice mled that It wee Inadmissible.
Mr Hensel : Did you ever see him again at Broome's?
Witness : Yee. Ono. again I was told It was him.
The I,rd Chief Justice Did you recoXillse him again as
the same person? Should you have known him again with-
out being told that it was him?
Witness: I think so, my I rd. I saw hint there again two
or three dais after the first occsslon. It might be the second
or it might be the third day. It arse In the same parlour.
The young men ems drinking champagne.
Dr. Mensal, : Did >on outdos this peraor.'s eyebrows/
Witness I did not.
Mr Buckles: By lord, I don't propose to croseesamlne
this witness except In reierence to the date he tined. You
wlli remenfb r he matt it was prior to a pm-tie-else spring
tiveting. (To the witness.) That Is to April, lint it? (Nu
reply)
By the Lord Chief Jirtlce : The Epeom Spring Meeting
has been es,abllshed over 30 years, IS ire. prior to the rat,*
meeting at .lipsorn—three or four days before the meeting,
perhao.
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WILLIAM FORWARD, ermined by Mr. Cooper Wyld T
live 0111/ et 22, Drioa-street, Piccadilly. I lived velth the
Dowager Lady Tlchborne before her death. I went Into her
service about sin no nthe before her death. It was my duty
to wait on her, and I consequently had to ettend on her. I
have heard her enema of the defendant. Her ladyilt.p said
hews* her son, and she could not think how anybody could
be •0 cruel as to say hewn out.
Mr. Justice Lush : This hes been already proved, and there
wee ao eronexamtnatt 'if at alt.
Mr. Judie. Motor; It was proved by On, lay from the

hotel.
She Lord Chief Justice : It is miner-emery to prove that—
there le no doubt al oat it.
Nzsmination °obtained : I noticed nothing ps caller In her
Is feebly'e habits, excepi that she was very particular about
m mettove Theo° was no.hit g peculiar or anything In
her conduct and behaviour to mate one think she was weak
is, Intellect. li.. her the morning before she did d, and ex-
cept a slight cold she appeared in her umial health. Sae was
usually creased In black.
Mr Justice Loch: TI at has been proyed, and there was no
mei...examination against it.
Mr. C rpm. Wyld bow to your lordship's suggestion, and
porous the exambutluti to that point no further.
STEPHEN MUNDAY (elemined by Mr. Warmly): I ass a
fanner at Frtsr's Dear, and was th,,tet to 1059. I know Mr.
summers. of Peler.A.l4, and rem.mber him coming back
from Australia. The first time I saw him afterwards I saw
him at eetenfleld, and had a con v e 333 Mon with Min.
Mr. Hawkins : I object to this conversation.
Kenealy You lordalups gut out the whole conversa-
tion Iron Bummers.
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The born ChM: Jartlce : All you can ask Is It the conver-
sation took place, awl 11 It was accompanied by any cot; or
did he xhPdt a writing.
Mr. hon aly hot your I ,rdahlps know that he not pretend
that he had exhibited the writing,
Ms. Justice Lush : I thought he showed the receipt to thts

Mr. frawklas : B. withdrew that, and said ha did not.
Mr. K.nealy : It all arises upon the examination of your
lordship.
Mr. Justice Mellor: The Judges may ask questions which
pommel me not entitled to alt. either In examination or
eroarexamtnation.

The Lord Chief Justice: The evidence so far confirm the
witness Summers that he had a conversation

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Examination resumed: lie did I ot show me any receipt.
thouth he told me he w0u.1.1 Nobody particular was by at
the time. I know Harriet Rivers he wos not there at my
house. Mrs. Rivers Is a widow. Iler husband was a farmer
at Friar's Dean.
Ito. Justice Lush: Where do ion say the conversation
took place?
Witnem : At Peterstield