The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-07-08 00:00:00

THZ TIOHBORXR TRIAL

la all mese of disputed ideotity markt upon the body
and other physical Peen Writhe au • most Important
head of eviditacte. Mr. Barnard Holt, %semiotic, eon.
culling ser,oon of Savilo•row, and his colleague, Mr.
Haden, in conjunction with Sir Wiliam Ferguson and
Dr. Sutherland, sul jotted the Claimant to • very sore-
Vol examination, teeing SOUS of the physical poonli.
wines which they discovered or kilted to direour ; and
on Friday Meson. Holt and Haden, who origivally acted
foe thadefenatat the ttiskin COMIIOO Pleas were walled as
witnesses en behalf of the Crown. The eubetanee of their
evidenoe is that the defendant had no tattoo marks, or say
Wens of tattooing ; but that shove bit left wrist is a
large eleatrix, as if • piece of the skin had been int Of
burned oil; that he has • brown Datum' mark on his
side, aloes under the rib,; that ho la. no mar on Lis
stolid such se • fishhook would produce if it puled
through the lid ; that bobs. a our on the huh of hie
head such as might be produoed by a fall ; that he has
no marks of bleeding at the elhows or on the the arms;
that he has no mark on the arm of either on inane or
• Ireton ; that, although he hat • WIT on the ankle, it
is not such as would be widened by an attempt to
blest from the eapherna vein ; and that be boo no sear
of bloodletting ever the temporal artery. Tekierr each
of these point' singly, a vast mu. of cot& iotiag peed-
Whiles arises. If Roger Tichborse was really
tattooed oleo' the whole 'mirth, more it las, of
his fore-arm, and the Claimant hoe never bun
so tattooed, the ruse is, as Dr. lienealy hoe
admitted, at an end ; for S r William For.
li(11.1011 sous with Mr. Holt that nothing will
remove a tattoo mark short of the knife or cautery.
But, than, the defendant has on hi. left arm • seer
exactly such as would be produeed by burning or cutting
eat a small tattoo mark. This fact is, we believe.
eoupled by the prosecution with the further fast that
Arthur Orton is said to have had " A. 0." tatteoed on
his arm ; hat it yet remains to he seen what 'Destruc-
t/ea Dr. Ye newly will put upon it. The brown mark on
the side is admitted. It wu, indeed, one of the
" been." mentioned by the Claimant in his first letter
to his mother; and ills urged by the prosecution that
there is no proof that Roger Tichborne load nab • mark.
Whether Arthur Oftee had such • mark or not no ate
sums to know. As for the abouse of aoy soar oe the
e.velids, this le coupled by the prosecution with this
fact that while /tour WM on board the Paellas
• hook purred clean through the lid, and had to
be pulled through and cut; and it is argued that nob
• wound would certainly haft left a permanent mar. '
The roar on the back of the hood is swilled by the
deft flee to the metnorsble occident at "Poole
for the proseautiev, it is contended that Roger Itch-
borne was stunned by the fall in question, but that the
skin was not even abraded, and that so blood flowed.
It is also • point for tie r•rueention thatbludirg leaves
• scar, which is •irut•t rete.ys permanent, and thet if
the defendant were Roger Le would have marks of
bleedirg on his OM% its also certain that erne* •
lad Boger had /air so tans or a stilton on his left
arm. According to the pros.cattem it was an Woe,
and was kept open ty a pea According to the de.
fence, it was a rotor. Be this how it may, Mr. Holt
declares th.t on tte &Gm:lent.left arm there is no
true of either melon on issue. Then, as to the marks
on the templet, or rather which are hot en the temples,
it is now beyond doubt that Roger had his temporal
via opened at Canterbury. But Dr. Celt earelelly
examined the defendant's temples in oven court, and
found no soar. As to the marks on the defendant's
ankles, the two eurgeons errs agreed that they were so
refunated as to render it Impossible that they could be
the casts of an old blooddettieg. And, lastly, as to the
neeeliarity in the thumb, both Mr. Colt and lit,
Haden declared their b. lief that it was not neessaarily
natural or congenital, but might have been with eau
artificially produced—a fact which each gentleman had
Independently aseartained by utast experiment upon
himself.

A BUICIDI BROUGHT BLUR TO LIT&
ft curious story of the bringlog to life of a man who
bed easioltted suicide by hanging at Val-de-Oraes,
pectec priLurg, is told by the Confider& Os the ilnC
diagnosis the doctors Affirmed that uphyzia was soft-
plots , the body gave 0... t the slightest sign of It!., it
being bbse and rigid. One of the physiedaos presoak
however, would not leave the eorpee without staking
a disci ezporisseat as It. Ho unoossred the beceet
mod ettetwpted (or *owe tots to induce rtepirstios by
arbillotol meats, but without moult. lie then applied
the pole of an *kettle battery to the passage of the
pneutue.gastrio nerves, sod mused • &tenni current to
pea. at intersals of four seconds. Almost immediately
feeble sigma of respiration reappeared. Pine minutes
afterwards the radical pulse and the cardiac puleo again
biome perceptible. The epiglottis was twirled, and
it wee necessary to pull the toospae out of the mouth
by means of a pair of pincers in order to reoder the
ruminates% freer. A few owners of blood were then
drawn from the mediompbalie vein. The dilated
pupils °entreated gradually, sad signs of Ms bosoms
more and more menthe. The patient was the, able
.te swallow a small quantity of alooboL Mall, a 'eight
conerdar oontraetion was perceptible without the in-
tervention of electricity, the seweibillty of the °onus
reappeared ; then tie feet beams warm &gale, sod
soon after toe regular pulsation of the carotid arteries
we. s.aily pixrecpuplc Whether the objut of so
•much trouble was grateful for the result ia not
ceported.