The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-07 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.
Our limited space precludes us froal giving wore
:Ilan the following condensed account.]

CONTINUATION OF THE SUMMING-UP.

The following inimmary of Friday's procetdings is
sken from The Times :

ONE HUNDRED AND EI3HTY-SEVENTH DAY.

The Lord Chief Justice on Feeley concluded his observa-
tion. on the evidence in the cam Having for several days
been engaged le uommentleg on the ...were of the defend
net as to the events :Led incidents of Roger Tlchlrorne's life,
and contrading them with the undoubted facts, he neer
poised to the subject of the personal marks In be t und ou
Roger and on the defendent, whether natural or artificed.
The defendant, beyond doubt, had a brown mark upon hi.
side, to which he himself had referred no • proof of his
Identity; had Roger I Ichborne such a node 1 there Was
no evidence of it (except "Captain Brown') and toe
mother when appealee to about it said she had never
seen or heard ef it, nor had any one else who had seen
Roger undressed. A witness, mewed, had been coiled who
stated that the Dow.. in Isle tad mnbi that she knew
the defendant to he her .on hy a mark he had upou
him. But It was difficult to believe tuts stateumet of the
Wilds., and tilt were true It only created painful doilies
an the lerigths to which the Dowager vies prepared to go to
...bitaf, his idenrity with R gee. Seeeral snitsinsees who
had berthed with Rooer nod had seen him undressed had
stated that there was no such mark upon htni, and If he bat
not, then as the oefeedant had, and it wet beyond all doubt
congenital, t was conclusive proof that he ceuld not be
Roger Tlchborne. Then there wits the le callarlty In the left
thumb of the defeedont, as to which It was doubtful
whether it was natural; anal the Jury would C011.1(lbr
whether it was eataral, or artifielal, or acoideutal ! nor WiJ
It of the lea. ...sr qe nce, qf coarse, unless they were
satisfied that Roger had such a thumb. There was CO
evidence that ha hod except taptalo Brown' again, mid
the Warned,' from Meek Ma. Colrain Brown saw tt, he
said, when II ger war playing billiards at Rio ; only unfer-
tunately, people played bilderds with the right heed, and
the Mermaid put it on the right ; when as site defendant'.
wo, Ce the left ! on the other hand, all the relatives sad
frtends of Roger Tichbutne dented any tech leclihtiurlty on
either of his thumbs, arid so of all Hs brother Other., and
the ne-mbers of hi. family, or his fellow efficers, would have
had daily opportunity of observing hit hauds at meals, In
playing at chess or billiards, in riding and liandllug lie
rules, and so on. Finally, tut of all the mended. of Wit-
nesses called to speak lin to Roger Ticbborne, orily two had
sold that lie had such a pecullarey, and they hilt put it en
the wrong hand, ho of another peculiarity In the defendant,
of which there was no proof that Roger Tichborne had It.
So much for natural or congenital peculiarities In the
defeenialit, whim, !Inter had not. I hen, as to natured
peculiarities In Roger which did not extst to the defeedane
Amor:reeling to the degusereetypes sent home by Roger him-
self his ears had small lobes, arid clorely &Mailed to Ma
Cheek. ; whereas the defendatit's ears were well developed,
and the lobes were detaceed, If the daguerreotypes
Cored lei relied cpon in this respect, then, most we
deubtedly the detmidaut is tint Roger Tichborne. And it
WAS to be le,rne ill mind that there were two daeuerreotppee,
and that they both agreed in this particular. Next
as to otirolcai or artinclal masks. Roger had an issue
ott h's arrn the eefendset had sworn positively he had a
"scion," sehlch wes quite dlif !runt, though Roger's Issue wet
spokni of sea veton, which would account for the defend-
ant*. havieg seem to a .eton. AMA about this there
could be no mistake ; for the defendant had sworn circus -
...daily to the trearmeet oft Won, and had positively, on
oath, denied the treetmeut of on lune; and two eminent
sumo one Mr. Barnard Holt and Mr. Seymour Had., had
stated punitively that the marks of an issue were Indelible.
an teat there were no marts of an issue on the arm of the
defendant, though there nec some moth, which might be
marks of no Imperfect set.. itir Wiltram F rgumon, 'e-
dged who had been called for the defendant, had green It
. as his °Melee that there had been no set., and that
there was am uk which Might be a veccleation mart,
or posalely inight be the meek of an issue But ails
I mark had lawny, up to the prerient trial been represented
by the deferelaet as a foreign yam:Marion mark, awl
the evidence el Sir W. Verge son 'bent it MU extremely
difficult to mrerstand ; avother medical man (who
had not practised as • surgeon), coned to confirm his
opinion that there was the mark of an issue, had
RlTtn evidence still More heir.ating. After all, what wan
decisive was, that the eefen,ant had sworn tie*t haerremo-
lected the specell treaimeut of a seten, and bad p nitiVely
denied the treatment of an issue Trees there were uuon
Roger 'lichen.° the marks of repeated bleedings, and at
Canterbury in a parolyem of congestion, which threat-
ened to be fatal, he was cut In both arms and both feet
without effect, and was then bled In the temporal artery.
The surge ii. agreed I list marks of bleeding in the vet.
U not ra.ollitelr heielthlo were virtually Si,:ts they were
certain to remain for a great mouy years—. nosey as thirty
or forty—end they etateer that tnere were co marks of bleed-
ing on the arms, the feet, or the temple of the defendant.
Mire wall., Indeed, mar. of Mlle on the ankles of the 4.'
(indent, but they were not, the surgeons weld, where airy
Vein existed, or where any airgeen would ever dream of
trying to bleed. Even his William Fergusme—called for
the defendaet—c mild not say t hat he humid any marks of
venirectlon on the arms or aekles, and he list not been.
asked as t r the temple The other medical upon—MS •
surgeon—called for the defendant to peeve that there were
marks of bleeding en the defendant's temple, as well as
the ameba, and who seek° with hesitation, said there were
Marts of more than one t uncture on the temple and several
or! each ankle whereas Colonel Blekentaffe, who was pre-
sent at the I-riling at Canterbury, positively more that
tee surgeon enly made one menet Ire on ONG.latieleMed on the
it mph,. Moreover Ode medical man, who Irmi the test to Pd
thee-leg meets ou the defendant, an t saw them M., said,.
cii exani I ation made tiering Mistrial, he Mel made his exited-
natl. behind the b•ck of Sir W. Fergusson. Could the
evi 'mice of this n edical man outweigh the pail,re evidence
of two mtg.-one, as Mr. Bernard Holt end Me Seymour
Haden, c milruleal as they were by Sir Wirth. Fereuason /
Are. 1, not, at it the earedt nut had no bleeding marks upon
hen, then It Wno • mist be porta. fact In the case Teen
the defeueabt iisal a sear on the back of ha head, which
was said to be the ear caus.d bi Rigor'. fall from the ricks
at Pirate, In Brittany. But there was no evidence Met
this fall had caused a sear, and Chattlion swore that it had
not, wilt.. there IMS evidm ea that Arthur titus had
reenlVit.l a cut on the back of the head which migut have
caused such a scar Then there was the small mar on ohs
of the forearms of the defendant, which he said be could
not acconut for, but had called • rennet,' to explain, as
If such a scar could have been caused without his know.
log how it came ! Several witnesees, on the other hand,
had sworn Met Arthur Ireton had on the same place tat-
teed hla Initials, "A 0 " ; arid It wee admittee that .itt
ricer boat be that caused hy cautery, need to trata
tattoo meek. the Lri Chief Justice !hen came to the
evidence a. to tie tettao mar. on It efer TiMborne.
it, he said, Roger Ilehlier,to was tattooed, t inn the
defendant t. not R. per TiCtibeme : for he sra, not tattooed.
Lord B«liew tad sworn that while he and Roger were at
Storryharst th y had tattooed each other with their
Initials, awl that he had then seen prior tattoo marks on
Roger's arm. And the defendant's counsel, who had so
sadly abased the licence of counsel as to make the mist
scandalous meweations of bribery and perjury as to the evi-
dence of Lord Bdiew, heal himself elicited • m rreepondence
with that nobtemau In which it was stated by the family
attorney tha. 'tier family were well aware the t Roor
wee tattooed ; " and he It notrerl what were the tattoo
mark. which Lord Bellew had made, and which were merely
Initial letters. Nor did it rest open Lord liellew's testi-
meet. which was suppretel by a greet body of evidence
Moire than 20 witnesses had been called to' prove the tattoo-
ing, and of these several had Meted that it was tal cod about
before the detonate. .5 had arrived, arid was lino,wo and
spoken of befeae Roger left keiglan,L Some of them
41*ii1—as bir, reetereld. e.t.a Menders, and Colonel
leckentalf *were vestigers to the family. Colonel Bicker-
stage, eh° sac Ms arm bete while he was belie Ned at
Ceete rbury, swore positively tht he sew tattoo mirky
upon them, mentiontes • an., and Major Bolt said he
"ae always meter tee trnprescion that Roger was tetkeeel
oieugh he could not sweet tnat he had seen the marks.
ihr eeunael for the defendant cored not deity that the we-
n... had wren these mark., and seg. ested the theory
• that Leger had from time to tines made such mark. to
Mule or astoblah lils friends. But the marks seem were
always the genie, and on two omadons he had been
token by enrerist —once early in the moraine when
tiresidng, and again when 111, insenalhle, sod armee,ed
t duo tiles, and otill the Borne merles warn seen. Was moult
• theory ratect, nily tenable ? No doubt a great number of
I/31MM bad been caned fee the defendant So peeve that