The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-28 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.
(Our limited space precludes am from giving more
hnn the following condensed aooooot.l

CONTINUATION OF Tkill SUMPAING-UP.

The following summaries of the pwiceedhige of
Monday and Tuesday are taken fr,m The Ttrnts

ONE HUNDRED AND E/GUTY-FOURTEI DAY.

The L ird Chief Justice resumed hie samming.np Tin Mon-
dayearel was ceneled all day lu Ms comment. on the &newers
if the defendant to till C70,11-NIALIIIIIItIow with W.wwrefo to
the life of Roger at St 'littera and his Melts to valour.
eleoes previous to his entering the army, controstiog his
statements with the evidence. It will have been seen from
the prunes observation. of the Lord Chief Justice that
ha attaches great Importance to the evidence as to the
defendant's recollection or non-recollection of incident. In
Roger's life, ad hence Ms comment. on this heed of th,g
case are very careful and copious. Al to BtOnyhuret, the
Lerd Chief Autice pointed ont that the defendant had not
only not rememeered, hot had positively denied the ha dog
I ate and incidents of It ,eer's Stonyhurst life, a, for Instance,
at the outset, that his father took him to Stonyhurst, whereas
the fact la manifest from the lettere. So 811 to the Oman:-
dances which attended his entry at Stouyburst, the number
of the etude nts, the cease of studies and of discipline, end
the whole management of the college. The Lord Chief
Justice dwelt particularly on the defendant's st otement time
he hid lived for eighteen months In one of the cottages, and
the various and coefficting theorlee which had been resorted
to with a view to explain It. Tie Lord Celef Justine Ha-
wke dwelt upon the defendant's statern ent—cpposed to the
evidence of the college-books end the letters of Roger en,l
his parents—that he left suddenly and discreditably in the
!return° of 18‘8, Instead of which, aocording to the whole of
the documentary evidence, he to t at the hammer mcatiou,
In accordance with previeus Inteutiou. If. said the Lord
Chief Justice, the limy believed that these statement' of the
cetendaut were all untrue they would have to contider
whether Roger Tlchhorne could possibly have fallen into
such blunders. He noticed the defendant'. statemente that
he had learnt "Hebrew, Greek, and Latin," though he old
not know even that Hebrew Is read from right to left and
aid not know the Greek letters when he saw them and
could not read a line of Lain, and did not know whether
he had raid Circa, or Virgil (both of which Royer YOKO), or
whether fse•ar wrote In verse or prose and thought he
was a Greet. Could Roger, who read Censer end Virgil,
have possiely made such solver, ea these ? Could a moo
, oho had ever read Greek, as tee defendant swore he had.
however ha mieht have forgotten the language, ha, tor
gotten the letters an es Oct eves to know they were Greek?
Or could he ever couteumi Lat!.n letter. with (leech? Or
could he have forgotten all about V; ten; Titer man art.
. French, which Rimer knew so well, the tiefeLdsnt admitted
that he had no kneel edge of it at ell, and could not read a word
of le That Roger knew who Viral was appeared front on
entry in ele emmorendnunboek, end he must have known,
at all events, leue jeo we. not a Greet writer Torn, alto
mathematics Relive hree eartanly read Euclid, and knew
of his "S x Books," and had ie.,: the first beers and worked
the problems in it and had studied L,d se examination to
It, but Me defendant did not even Mint+ whet wale-
rustics were, and he "should hardly think they were the ume
as chemistry." He "did net recollect if he had read any
esnet "certainly Euclid bad nothing to do with
niethematics." could Roger lichborre have given Bach
aurora as them? COGI4 3 man who had worked hard at
Ettcl,d, as Roger Tichbotue tad, have 'molten MN very
Lame, and forgotten that he had e enete,ing to do with
methemetics ? ' Then, as to chemistry, on which Roger heard
lectures, the defendant could not even ray what It was
dense "It Is different herb., and pollens, and the mixture
of medielme." Could Roger 'I 'Oilmene have given such an
answer? Again. es to the familia Latin phrases which were
imeritied on evtey paper at Stonebura —the delthdant, it
was observable, knew only the meaning of such wore, as
resembled words of a simila teething in Spaniel], but as to
the rest be sras wilte Ignorant, ILIA thoirdst that Lana
poo scraper" masa "the laws of God for ever " Lou d
ROWIr Teeth Toe have made such a blander: ft was
trot a quail .0 of knowledge of these aciefece. or
megnmes, bet of ignorance of their very names Or Meaning.
The Lord Chief Justice went on to comment on the hoe,
entice the defendant had shown of Roger's artsociates or
fellow pupils it stonyburee one or two of the Mondale,
' commie the Vicomte de Itrineent, a relative, tee ymmg
Berea. es, one of whom died in a room near Roger's white
he wm there. Lord Bellew, Mr Waterton, and several others,
some of whom tome been called as gritty...es. Out of all
these It might have bee, !elected that Roger wield have
remembered some ; hut Oil eis eriginal cumin •tion in
tnancery in 1867 he conld not menthe., tee name of any um
In hie owe class, nor of any of the students, now 04 eny one in
the collier,. evceot Petra, end " Arundel' "as two 00015
men there, a. to whom he did not know who they were,
whereas no one named Petre was at Stonylinrst ; and there
were two Mundells them, both of them Roger's cousin.,
one of whom became Lord Mendell, and the other, Erased
Arundel', was mentioned In Roger'. wit. Yet the defend-
at only mentioned one Arundel!, and did not know who
to was and Oda, said the Lord Chief Justice, thotigh
Lord Arnndell was ha the room at the time. And bet rig
edged Ii he meant Lord Arundeli he said he did not know,
he could not uy. After ware r, In his crees-examlnatiou,
the defendant sale ha had mount Evened Arnudele but
weuld riot .wear If Md. one was at is.onyhurst when he
hdreelt was there,—though there was no doubt that both
the Arundella were there with Roger, and it was strange If
Roger had fergotten them. Again, the Berkeleys were two
of Roger's intimate friend., at d could he have forgotten the
death of one cf them while he was at the col ego?
So the defenilant had no recollection of young Weterton,
and se of all the rest of his college companions. 8 agan,
as to Roger's tutors—the defendant had no reeollution of
any ol them. The delendat, however, had • list of the
" Mather.' who were there when R mer was there ; and
next day he mentioned some of the names, but still did not
remember the eemes ol two who had most to di with
Rimer, and denied that one of them was a Father at all,
thou, h this was the oua tete) taught Roger English
and Latin, and the pawn whom tha dafindaut supposed
• Rove taught him had never taught Roger et ail. (he
Fathers who had taught Roger were uoknown to the deem'.
ant, and the Fathers whim the &fen tat menthitied us
having Wight him had Out taught Roger at all. Then,
agate, thi 11./11 Roger was three years at Stinyhurst and
used to have a two mot the' vacetiou In the mules°, be-
ginning on the Ist of August, end which he used to spend
in shooting at 'I ichlyirne and K pole, the defendant eget
Lot know when the vocation was, and thought It WIN three
Cecil and that there was • six week.' 'matron at t'uthe -
nine, when, to truth, there was no winter vecathin et al,
hot only some holyilays at the college; and the defeedant
actually denied what wee the fact—that there was only one
vacation, the entwine', which lasted more than t woinonthe.
The toed Chief Justice wont on to notice the ignernice
Zee defendant had shown of the events and Incident.
'Three had happened at stenyhuralt while Roger was there,
and whio, he would be likely to remember, Ile neither
, remembered the death of a young friend, OAAJ of the
Berkeley. who ai,,o In a room next to it mer's and em ico
Roger atien led in 1.10 dying hours ; nor, on the other
hand, did 118 remember ieting in play. performed at
Stonyhurst, as Roger had deers, finally, the Lied Chief
Jltstlee dwelt Upon tied statement 01 Id,. on!.daut that he
bad left auddeely undo? discreditable clreemstances in
November, ISIS, instead of width Roger, bolos.? • donut,
had left at the opening a the eeeduer vacation in that
yea, in accirdance with his previeus intention to do so.
It WAX beyond • doubt, sold the Lord Chief Justice, that
.aer nevor webt back after .toglOt hit ,etters and
his panned letters shoved it, yet the defendant had ...ore
pulavely Hut he hut gone bak, and had left sudderily
under discreeltehlo circurnstanoer. II dr be Came to
swear it was difficult to explain, but beyond a doubt It was
untrue and, therefore, that the story by which the state-
ment we. accounted for was equally untrue. Such we.
the evidence of oat of knowledge In the delendat In 1867
and 183 as to Stonyhurst, its stueles, aol ita diselpliee,
the tawn, the milew.pupils, and the ale !Ai whom R era
intent hove Deco es.ceete Ito remember. Against thin
It was end...veered to rat re,e evidetice uf a witness—Ma
Mewing router of the college— i stated that, in a
con aaaaa ttou with the defendaut alter the lest tad, after
Ids croa-et delnath ta on tee dot, alter a Via* 41 !a•do•
fondant with brolgent to Prestee near Btonyhusat, le Vas.
neighbeurnood of which a fame of the defendant lived, the
defendant showed a knowledge of some th• Get aboet the
celiege which at the trial he had riot recollected, gel had
reminded the witness of some Incident which haveried se
Freaton to Roger and himself. tele WM, no doubt, very re-
markable, aupposing the defendat lied not meanwhile had
at y In( medullae on the 'Mimi but it was serer, that he
should have remembered In 1,72 matters of "the% he tea.: Pe
recollection in 1867 or .71 stud it was strange that i.e
1872 hia memory should hays become no militate. Ti;.
feed Chief J uatice thee Lathed the aesa exeminatiou of the
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defendant., to lintim Constable fti; seat of Sir Talbot
Constal,l-1, chore Roger paid a visit In 147, not ac ed in
playa performed there with Mr. (now Sir Joseph) Radclhie,
ea to which the defendant denied that he had no
played: and, Indeed, denied that Mr. Radcliffe was there
and, on the other hand, swore that "he dancea the ran can
in the library before a lot of ladles and gentlemen , by
nuked me to du it, • retement which Sir Joeeph Red-
d-tie, who wan at the house at the time, had Indignantly
deLled : wh to. on the other hand, ha had stated tint he
had acted with Roger In the playa performed during the
visit. The Lord Chief Justice then noticed tile or, M-
.2=104101: as to Townley. tea Lencsadre, as to which,
MOO tiding to the lividenfas of lire. Townley, 1M had rid NA
Ger Interview with hint in March, 18077 that Is vi. "