The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-12-20 00:00:00

THE

ILAItK.LANE.-1101MAL
Quietness has been the characarlstic of it.
trace at Mark-lane to-day, business being
within very moderate limits. The supply of MPhil
shoat °timing has been small . best:thaw, MO
has been • want of anlmation In the demand, sad
the few sales that have been effected have boi
concluded at the rates previously current. The RP
ply of I °reign wheat Las been less fitentilV. Dui*
Mons have been limited, at 'taut late quotations. A
in,derate supply of barley has been on the stauda IJI
malting produce has been steady in value, with a his
unity, but all the other desczlptions have been dull of sab.
Malt has told on former terms. Engli•h oats haven/MIMI
plentiful, and the supply of foreign has bekm lea ell= Ihe trade bail been quiet, and prlces have keen w
change. Maize has not been purchased to any latent Ni
pricEs have ruled sisal ered. Beans have Oren quiet at Ms
rates. For peas tee market has been quiet, but Arm la
floor business has loeu restricted at last week's prlcea

MARK.LANE —WELNYSDAL
Boldness at Mark.lane to-day Ints t.tati v.rt m.dtalit
Thu supply of English wheat has be.n snort, and mein
sal.. conclnded have been at tee price. of Monday. VA
show of foreign ..iteat has been mocerate. TranraliS
have been restrictei, but values Lave bun firm The WM*
of barley h-s been mu' entte. Although quiet, tn•
la. been firm, on form. r terms. Malt lass sold at Isle rAlt
the supply of . a... lass been short.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARIKET.—MOADAT.
The great annual n arket was held to day, at which then
trua • gt,od supply of [matte, though leas than laatrear, and
the condition ct a large port too was hart,ly 61415(401M.

IHE WITNESS LUIE AT BOW•STBEET.
lin Saturday attornou the persou cellos himself Joao
Lute (ho enrols on behalf of the Clef , ant to the lichhimo
tstates. was broushl Woo, sir 'Floins, lorry, by welt of
Welk, corpus, to olotrtr thete,Oarea of awl. g torte trd his
Is, _ace, so a moil ii on '• ticket of lean," by ueglealug to
r pert I bewail at lutensis to the proper 'authorities.
Mr. rollard, assistant solicitor to the 'treasury, °militated
tho prosecution oil behalf of the Crown.
l'he prisoner, for whom no barrister or 'solicitor ape
wea he tight isp in the cnet,dy a the add
warder of Holloway Prison, who lute bad the charge of
Lain slice his committal by the Lord Chief Justice of
the Court of Queen's 113. inch for contempt of Courts
The viewer gave the name of " Jean Luhs."
Mr. Pollard, in stating the eau' observed that the
wan at the bar was liberated from the consist prison of
Chatham on the 25th of March Lust, on "ticket of
leave," after undergoing a sentence a seven years'
penal servitude, of which about two years then re-
mained unexpired. He had been convicted in the
name a John Lundgren, and that name appeared
upon his licence. Since then he had been examined as
a sitars:, for the defendant in the cue of the "Qrsoen
tt Castro," now being tried at Weettniester, and on that
as wed as on the present occasion he had given the
name of Jean Luie. During his examination at
Westminster he related the history of his life, 'stating
that he was barn in Denmark in 1825, and first came
to England iv June fart, having arrived in a steamer
from Antwerp. He said that happening to be in a
coffee-shop near London-bridge, he heard of there being
a person coiling himself Sir Roger Tichborne, who ha I
been saved from the ship Bella mmy years ago, and
war now laying claim to the Tichborce estates.
Remembering that he took part in rescuing several
persons who had been saved from a ship of that
name, he at once endeavoured to seek out Sir Roger ;
and, alter a fruitless visit to Brighton, was at
length Tacen to the residence of the Claimant is Rees-
bordush•gardene, and was introduced to till Claimant by
Mr. Whalley. He siva he was at once recognised by
the Claintant, who said " Cons ena Luie?" and there
was a mutual greeting, the prisoner remembering the
Claimant's voice. He then proceeded to describe the
events of the period referred to, stating that in 1953 he
warn ea board the Osp,ry, stationed at Rio, and made
the sualuainiance ot • in:an railing himself Captain
Brown, and that in the f dlowitig April, when sailing
from Melbourne, they picked op a whaleboat COL,
tannin? six men in • greatly exhausted coutlition, one
of them being paralyzed. This Ulan, he isaid, pm at tot.
wards known to him by the name of "Rogers," and he
remained with thew till they all deserted the ship for
the digging'. It fell to his it to wash and dines Mr.
Remo, who had marks on his hip, but no tattoomarks
hatever, and who used to complain that Luis wee apt
to hurt bins, owing to two of his tiegers being bent.
Mr. Pollard then proceeded to epiteimee the suti-
eognent events of Ltde's life, as described by himself
i ~n the 15th of October lam, n the Court of Queen.;
Bench, embracing voyages is. different shin to various
patio of the glob-, until his final settlement in
America in 1871, and the pursuit of hie wife, who had
deserted him, from Chicago to Antwerp, and from An-
twerp to England in Jane of the prosiest year. Mr. Pol-
lard next referred to the identification of Lou', through
the portraits taken of him by the Londsu Stereo-
scopic Company and exhibited In the shop windows, as
the man who, in various names, had attempted to corn.
nut certain (ramie in London and elsewhere, rep. atiug
the facts of the " rebutting evidmee " already familiar
to the public, and ehowing that the whole story re-
lated by Luie was falser from beginning to end
—his career in England from 17152, aud his constant
imprisonment for duff-rent offences at intervals
during the whole of that time, being now perfectly
well known. Upon these revelations the prisoner had
been abandoned, as a witnees, even by the counsel for
the Claimant, and committed for contempt of Court
by the Lord Chief Juatice, for having committed per-
jury. The present charge against him, hiswever, was
br.apective of any proceedings which might be in-
stituted on that recount, and all that he (Mr. Pollard
desired to do now weeto esteblish the identity of
" Luie" with the onavict Lundgren, by the evidence
of a warder of the Chatham prison, and then to ask for
a remand of the prisoner t, a future day.
George Clark, chief tinniest ir, S.tland.yard, proved
that he was present at the lichborne trial on the
14th and 15th a October last when the prisoner was
under examination as • witness for the defendant, acid
gave the name of " Jean Luis," dea iring on oath that
he had never passed by any other name; also that he
had never been in trouble, but bad spout nearly all his
life situ- 1853 upon the sena and American rivers, and
had never been ii England till June of tne present
year. He had made inquiries and had seeertttLed
thtt the priuner ha i never reported himself as a oon-
vict on ticket of leave."

James Cranston, warder of Chatham Pri.on, Lien•
titled the prisoner tia the convict "John Londiirto,"
who was discharged on "ticket of leave on the 25th
of Aaarch last, and had rn ver "re oiled" himself clue,
In accordance with the conditions of the licenae.
. _ _

Upm this evidence Sir Tiumme Henry remanded
the prisoner, and informed the chief waroer of Hollo-
way r4on that the prisuotr was now out of his one-
tody, and would be sent to the Middlesex House of
Detention.

The ',droner, who sail nothing to the charge, was
then removed from the dock.

At Bowwtreet, on Tuesday, Jean Lute, (Was Charles or
John Lundgren, was again placed at the bar before Sir
Thomas Henry, with 'Milos to comply wlll the terms of the
licence upon which he was liberateo from prison on ticket of
leave.

Mr. Pollard, from the office of the Treasury Soli-
cltorr, said that the Secretary of State had directed the
removal of the prisoner to a convict priaon, and had
acarrdinsly signed a revocation of the licence granted
to him for good conduct. Instructions in tho moan.
while would be immediatelylaid before counsel re=pect.
jog the charge perjrpy viral would be broneht
against Lair. This, however, would occupy a few
days.
Sir Thomas H-nry : Th. prisoner cm be brought up
at any time to linawer the ch.sige. Let the revocation
be read.

Mr. Granville Layard, the clerk taking the notes of
the case, read the document, winch wee as follows :
"Order of revocation of licence to a conviot ma le
ander the etat itee 16 and 17 Vic. cap. 90 sec. 9; and
27 and 28 Vic., cap. 47, sec. 9 iVhitehall, Dc. 15,
1873: Whereas, her Majeety wee graciously pleased
to grant on the 28th day of Felonry. 1,73, to John
or Charles Lundgren, who was COUVieIf obtaining
money by false pretences at twi goarter --anions holden
as Awansea for the county of G amorgau, on the 13h
day of Gaoler, 1887, and wee then sentenced to be
kept in penal sere i rade for a term of seven years, her
Royal lnience to he at larg- during the remaining por-
tion of hie sail term of penal servttude union it shou'd
team, her Maj-sty sooner to revoke or alter suc
licence. Her Majesty is now pleased to revoke the
said licence so granted to tbe said John or Choate.
Lindgren, as aforesaid, and doth hereby revke the
said licence. Given under toy hand and seal. (Signed)
ROBERT LOWE."

Su Thomas Henry (,o the prisontr).—Yon under-
stand tha: you license ban been revoked?
Late : Yta, air.
Sir Thomas Henry : Have you any atatment you
wbh to make?

Lnie: Yee, sir,
Sir TSOMIIS henry; Let it he taken down.
Luie : All I have to say is Ow I am sorry for whit
has happened. It would not have hapk.ened if I had
not been encouraged and made up to do what I have
done.
_

Sr TOOMM Henry: Is that all you wish to say?
Luie : Nothing else.
liir Thomas Henry: You wiah to say no more than
that you have been encouraged and made up to do what
you have done.
Lute; That hi a'l I winh to eay for the present.
Sir Thomas Henry: Very well. Then it ia now
my duty to commit you to the convict prison at Pen-
tourille to undergo the remainder of your sentence;
but you moat understand that you may be brought
here according to the statement of Mr. Pollard, of the
Tresaury S .licitons' Office, to anawer the charge of
Perjury
Late, who was very quiet throughout the proceed-
age, was thtn removed.