The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-03 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

The Clainiant'a trial " at bar " which commenced in
the Court of Queen's Bench on Wetlntsday morning,
April 23, before lint Chief Justice Cockburn, Justice
Mellor, and Justice Lush, has been continued from day
to day, the court being crowded with barriAers
and ptviems intereated in the case, and the public—
while in the galleriea there have always been a number
of ladies. The Lord Chief Justice announced that the
Covirt is absolutely open, and this—in a conic—is true.
But Inspector Denning, and the detachment of the A
Division under his charge, have strict orders to ad-
mit snch a number only of the general public as the
building will si eotnnaodate, and the consequence is
that those who wish a seat must be at Weetniinster
Hall by about half past eight. Within some thirty
seconds from the opening of the doors every place is
taken ; and those who get a seat stick to it for the day,
being, as a rule, well munitioned against a siege. Each
day an eager crowd throng Westminster Hall. it being
as much ILK the officers on duty can du to keep the
',atomizes clear.

On Friday, the third day of the trieJ. Me. Hawkins con-
tinued his opening speech, which our readers have no
M übt read. fie had, he said, the previous day, concluded
ith the visit of the defendant to Wapping, on the eydning
of hia arrival in this country, elnistosas, letki. Early
next morning he went down to inquire after Arthur
Orlon's sisters- Mrs. Jury and Mrs. Tredgett. lie wan
directed to the loose of Mn. Pardon, a sister of Nis%
Jury, and be sent up the card of a person named Stephens,
whom he had met on board the vessel, and who had handed
It to him. Ile added to the name of "Stephens " the ad-
dress •. Australia," and sent it in to Mrs. Pardon, who saw
him. Ile began at once to ask otter the Odom', and she
said, Von look like one of the Ortons yourself." He an.
swered, "No, I am not one of the Orion., but I am a very
great 'lend of Mrs. Tredgett's brother." She repeated that
he looked very much like an Orion, and he repeated his
denial, lie gaverher a letter for Mrs. Tredgett to be handed
to her. Mrs. Pardon took it and gave it to Mr. Tredgett. In
the presence of Mrs. Pardon she broke the seal and opened
and read the letter. Having read it she made an exclamation
which was not in itself evidence. lint the prosecution had
the letter, and it was signed "Arthur Orion."
" Wagga Wages N S W June grd ed.
"My dear & beloved Sister,—lt many years sow since
heard from any of you. I have never hearth • word from
any one I knew since 1954. But my friend Mr Stephens is
about starting for England. And he has promised to find
you all out. And write & let me know MI about you. I do
not ititend to say much becanae he can tell you all about
me. Hoping my dear sister he will make him welcome has
he l.a dear friend of mine so good bye
urn 03.1.1).-
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M.'

R ORT,N.

At the end of tho letter was the mark which was to be
found at the end of Arthur Ortou's letters to Mary
Loader. The Jury would have this letter, and would be
able to compare it with undoubted letters of Arthur
Orion, and they would be able to see no difference. It was •
letter tvideutly written for the purpose of deception. It pro-
fessed to be written to be banded by way of Introduction to
Stephens. The place and date were obviously false, for Ste-
phens never saw the defendant, and warn unknown to him
until he was on board the vessel from New York, less than a
fortnight before their arrival in England. The letter, then,
must have been written afterward.; and It was evidently so
written for the purism., of Inducing • belief that he the de-
fendant) was Stephen., Ind had come from Viingga•Waggs,
leaving Orton behind him there. Why otherwise was ruth a
letter written? Shortly afterwards Sirs. Pardon received a
letter from the defendant, dated tho 26th of December, 1:61,
in these terms :

"Dear Madam,—Would you kindly inform the lady for
whom I left the letter with you That If she will kindly
comtcate with me at once she will hear something to her
advantage. Please send what information she can consern-
Mg %ibis Loder sad hoe own family. And what boCAMO of
her brother Thonfra chilldren .

'1 rmin ' -yowl reepecfai,
W. U. STENIENO.
Addrele 1 CT,, Post-office, Graveseud,"

That letter was written In a feigned hand by the defendant.
He afterwar.is received letters from the sisters of Orton,
whlch be said—no doubt truly—hid been destroyed. The
contents could be gathered, however, trim his own letters
whl h followed. It was clear that he had been suim ised to
he Orion, and had been a.ked for his portrait for on the
7th of Jon' ary, tn 7, anal Cr litter from filet as, reoeived,
also In • leigked Itsudwriting

" Gravesen.; 7 Jan. '67.
" Dear Madam —I receved your kind letter tins morning
and very sorry to thhik you should be so much mistaken as
to think i am your brother, yoar brother Is a very great
friend of mine and whom I regard haa a brother. Audi have
likewise trombed to send him all the Information ican abut
his family I cannot call on you at present but will do so be-
fore long. I sent your listen a likeness of )our brother
wife and child this morning I should have sent you one But
have only one left which i require for copying I have like-
wise one of himself which I intend to get some copy of I
will they send you some of each My future address will be
IL C. f. Post Office liverpool Liverpool. Hoping to have the
pleasure of making the a-quatotance of my friends slaters
before long.

I remain yours respectfully
" W. H. STEPHENS."
It was manifest that Orton', slaters had taken him for their
brother, and load taxed him with the fact. That those letters
were in the hausiwriting of the defendant there was no
doubt. Oa one occasion when they were handed to Ililll and
he was asked whether it was true that he had written them,
he denied It, teed denouneed the letters as forgeries. After-
wards, where In the wane...hos, he was compelled, under
pressure of cross-examination by the Attorney.bleneral, to ,
admit that they were his, and that hie denial of them was
a deliberate faliehood, which, he Bahl, he had told because
otherwim it would "injure him tu his case." lie never eel.
mitten those letters truth the real truth was dragged from him
to the witness-box by tie Attorney-General. There was no
question that he had sent these portraits—the portraits of his
own wife and child—as those of Orton. To this day Orton has
not been identided with any other person but his own. How
came Roger Tic..borne to be giving Arthur Orton's sisters
the portraits of hi, own wife aud child as those of Arthur
Orton? "My future address will be Posteoffice, Liverpool.
Why? Why on earth Lave letters sent to a place where he
was not living Upon this he was Cross examined by the
Attorney- General, and his answer was, "It was just possible
I might be going through Liverpool to inland." What a
flimsy pretext. At length, being pressed, he said, "I gave
that address though I was not going to Liverpool, because
I did not want to be bothered with them." That was far
nearer the truth. They were not to be duped any longer.
They knew the handwriting of his letters, feigned as they
were. They had Arthur Orion's letters, and they recognized
the writing. Gravesend was getting too hot for him, and
he feared detection and denunciation. Feuding that they
knew him he wished to get away from them. He wanted,
he said, to Mid out what he wished to know, and
then to have no more to au with them. lie doubt that
was his desire. They knew him as their brother, and he
feared lie should be found out, ao lie wanted to have nothing
more to du with them, (Cross ens- • ton, eirth d 7, June
' 22,1011.) lie "wanted to And out about Arthur Orton."
But at that time the letter professedly written from Wagga
Wagga in June had not ben discovered. And that letter—
afterwards found out—gave the Ile to the pretence for in
that letter it was pretended that Arthur Orton remained In
ati.traLa. There was this further fact, which was very re-
markable, that these secret vs-Into Wapping were concealed
from his own attorney. When it was rumoured that he was
Arthur Orton he kept these visits secret. lie kept them a
secret from his best blends, and on the 20th of Oct° ier, they,
he IVA etc to Idalast friend Roue:—
"We find the other aide busy with another pair of sisters
for me one of them been to see Mr. Holmes, they ha-1 been
three days at them and they are quite sure of nuccese.
Only there la thin difference which they cannot make out.
The Brother of these young womans M very dark; and very
, much marked with the smalls pox very much about the
I face. But they are still very sure lam him. I wonder who
i lamto be next. The man they think i am Is still living In
Wagga Wagga under an assumed name. They say I was
born in Waying I ant glad they have found a Respectable
put if London for me. I never remember having been
' there : Cut Mr. Holmes tell me it a very respectable pert of
Loudon."—Signed "11. C. D. TICLIDOKNE"

"1 never remember having been there." In Ills cross-exam!.
nation he admitted i—" Probably, I took care not to Mention
my Hai • there." No doubt, he had taken every care to keep
them secret. "The mu they take me for is being under an
assumed name at Wagga Wa; go." No one had ever seen
him. No one had ever been al le to Hod him out. If there
were tn.), such man—other than the man now sitting there—it
was to be hoped he would be produced. If he was not pro-
duoed, then the jury meet mit themselves if they hat any
doubt that the only man who professed to know of his exist-
ace was the man Mmeelf. The visite to Wapping were never
Mentioned even to the Dowager, who died without hearing of
them. lOue of the Jury observed that the above letter was
*toed It. C. D. Tichborne and Mr. Jintice Lush mid It was
the first time the defendant used the initial D. The Lord
Chief Justice observed that Sir James Tichborne had &monied
the name of D nighty ; and Mr. Hawkins said I hat in
October, 1867, the defendant had just found OM We fact
and had then assumed the name]. In the meantime the
defendant ou his arrival rather shrunk from seeing any meM-
hers of the family. It was a dangerous thing to do so, for had
he seen any of them, knowing so littlo as he did, he would
have been ln • great difficulty, so he went, he said, to Grave-
send to keep out of their way until he heard from Lady Tichs.
borne. No doubt he was hiding from the family. He dare
not even face the poor old lady herself without some little
knowledge of the old place. So he left hls wife and
children behind and went clown to Alrestord to look
at it. He put " It. C. T" upon his trunks no doubt
as a suggestion or invitation to recognition. If he had
been the real man, why aid be not go down boldly in his
own name and oeolare himself? lie had quarrelled with
no one. His last letters to his aunt and mother were
most adectionata. Why should he not have announced
' himself and said" Here I am—a little roughened, perhaps,
by long absence, but lam Roger Tichborne?" Why did he
not go to his old attorney, or to hie father's or to his own
old friend and executor? Instead of that he went to an
obscure put lichoum and kept himself quite concealed. Then
he got hold of the publican, Rona, and began talking to
lien of the people in the neighbourhood, lie was peculiarly
Cll/101111 about the lichbornee, end was very anxious to see
the house, an 1 he ;.;,.t R us to takehirn, and in their talk begot
out a great deal of rinntion about tl.ti family and the
place. However, the defendant and Bogle went back to
London, and the next day the defendant put himself into
Communication with Mr. Holmes, who became his attorney.
Godard went down to Gramemol to see the defendant, who,
however, actually refused to me him. A few days afterwards
Mr. Goeford went down again to see him and saw him. At
this time the defendant was in the hands of Mr Holmes, who
knew nothiug whatever of the family. 'I he defendant had
got Introuticed to him through the medium of a brewer's
clerk, whose acquaintance he had made. Mr. Goaford
came to London with the defendant arid Mr. Holm.,
and put many queciona to the defendant to ascertain
what he knew about the Limit', and came to the con-
oldelon that he was not toe man, and told him so. He
wrote to Ron.,—" If my solicitor, Mr. Hohnee, writes
to you give him any information you can; and depend
upon perfect secrecy between us." Who was Mr. Roes?
An ol i clerk of Hopkins, the old family attorney ; acquainted
with the family estates. Mr. Holmes knew nothing about
them itoUll could give him much information about them.
And it was all important to obtain mai information be-
fore the Claimant faced Mr. Hopkins himself, as he
Vrettld have to do. Hance the application to Retie, and hence

the MM as to secrecy. Miscall these peecentlons and pro
pennons the lorendanil left Lenders with his w.quaintance,
th s brewer's clerk, and still his w.terney, to see the Dowager
at Parts. It was I..sneutable so think of the state of the poor old
lady's mind ! Unable t. s relit spilub her long cherished Idea
that her long.loet soh was yet div, ale still had received
fmro Urn such false partkulart a, might well have missed •
doubt In any rathwal MLA 0111) V) , rettlactit I doubt. Ile
had talk., I ?hunt bin raodfather. whom Roger had never
"o". lie mid he Wan S private, where.a limier *ea an
°nicer e :stated at Winchauer instead of Stuneyhurst
01. Vitus's slam° instead of rhi umalism. " lie con-
fuses every thing, as it in • dream," she wrote mit
It will not prevent me from recognising him, though
his statements (infer from mine !" This was the
p. or bewildered old lady who will now to be con-
tr. Med with her long lost son In the company of two
strangers, one of them an attorney. Ile did not go to lee
! her—she hwl to come It find him, and the found him lying
: oil a bed. This wall her meeting with her long lost son !
lln the presence of two entire strangers I What was his
accuint of a scene calculsted to arouse the deepest veto-
hot Ile Buhl, "1 was lying ots a bed, and soy mother was
standing alonssido me. I cannot say who spoke first. We
converted • long time. I cermet ray If she recognised rue
at once or after a time, or what. There were others in the
loom who will be able to give a better account of it than
me, Mr. Holmes and Mr. Lea. (the lawyer and the brewer's
clerk) and De. Shrlrepton. I believe we were b.sth affected
at the Interview ; she did not express my Ilonbt about lily
being hir son. Oh, no not In the slighteat " finch was
the substance of the account given by the defendant himself
of this all-impostant interview. The attorney was with
them all the stile; no d uht taking a note of all Mr the
purpos e of ati affidavit of rocognition. (Laughter.) Snob
were the clrcumstanctra o their first interview and recog-
nition

Sir. lia,kius then real 11 lines letter to ft ms dale log
him to come up to to No to a hoe, nod be pointed out that
this was a fel. days before Holmes and the defendant went
down to see Hopkins at alreatord—Hopkias, the old family
attorney. 'there they ha I a conversation with Eopkins and
Balgent, d though ilopkles was dead, Baluent mu
and could be callel as a witness on behalf of She defendant.
Ile wrote this lrtl..r to Mrs Green wont, who, he alleges, waa
his cousin (not Kate D..uslity, but another Kate)

"M 7 dear courang Kate,—
" I am very sorry I am not able to come and see you
before I go. my head Is so bad that lam not lit to come.
Mr. lialgent is very much annoyed about it butt am coming
here to spend a fue days at the • lid of the week and I shall
then have the pleasure of meeting you again."

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And then he wrote to 'the Dowager,—" Coming hotly
would v, ry much like to see me, but Colonel W. (her hus-
band) will not let her come." These were the falsehoods he
wrote to the poor old lady, to conceal and disguise the real
fact.. After thi, he wrote that •' Colonel Lushlngton was satin-
fled." Colonel Lushlngton ! Would he appear again as wit-
ness !Oosford met him again, andsatd, If youare Roger Tich.
borne, you cant have forgotten the sealed packet deposited
with me. What were the contents of it ? " 'I he defendant
could not say. Vet, accordiug to Mrs. Ratcliffe's copy of It,
the contents were simply this—that on iris ma-rying her
within three ye.its he would build • chapel at Tichborne.
In course of time the defendant filed an affidavit In Chancery
giving his account of the wreck of the Bella and his rescue
from the wreck, and conveyance to Australia. But the affi-
davit was a tissue of gross aml revolting absurdities. and In
due time he was cross-examined upon it in Chancery. Ile
prepared himself carefully for cross-examination. Be got
hold of all the letters and a great deal of other Information.
After tins, the Intendant was cross examined. (The learned
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confuse' I;re reed fr,nn the

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coploualy, and

commenteo upon it at length.) The learned then
proceeded to trace the course of the Claimant. Alluding to
the interview with Captain Fearer, he said the C tptain asked
him whether he recollected an Incident which had occurred.
The defendynt said he believed he had given him a "Byer snuff-
box The truth was that Roger Tichbornehad given the ay/Fain a
snuff oox, but it was not id silver, it ma horn. This WAS a
specimen of his confused no:ion of the incidents of Roger
Tichborneli past life. In the mean time he was correspond-
ing with the Orion., and giving them money. "Whenever"
he said, "they wanted money I sent them some" Why I
Why, U he was Roger Tichborne,shorild babe sending money
to Arthur Orion'. sisters Why was it sent secretly and
why was their correspondence kept a secret? Why did he
shrink fr, in seeing them! There was, moreover, a Charles
Orion, who was carrying on a butcher's shop In Hermitage
Wharf, Waypin y Ile being poor communicated with the
defendant, aiet from him received communications and
money. For several months Charles Orton wu allowed by
the defendant £5 a month, at nut in his own name, but
afterwards ill the name of Brand. Why I,—U there was no-
thing to conceal? And why should there be anything to con-
ceal ? This continued up to September, HI&

Mr. Justlee Lush.—What name lid the defendant ue In
these communications

Mr. Ilse kina—Tichborne. But he communicated with
Charles Orton under the name of Brand. Rumours arose
that he was supporting the Orton,. Be wrote to llolmes
In October, 1868, distinctly denying that he sent them
money. Nevertheless, the learned counsel said, 1 shall
prove it. True it is that the correapondence was burnt, and
I shall show you why. They had got Charles Orton to sign
a declaration that the defendant was not his brother, and
he burnt the letters at the defendant's Instance. But he
never could get Charles Orton to swear to the denial. In
sctober, 1•66, the defendant ceased to make prov.sion for
him, and he went to the other side, and told them the truth
about the matter, the defendant then made an affidavit in
these terms :

" I did mit know any of Arthur Orton's faintly until the
year 1868, when, in consequence of rumours which reached
me, I e.sUd upon his slaters Mrs Jury end Mrs. fredbett,
whom I then saw f r the first time. They both mode an
affidavit, which is filed in the Chancery snit, that I am no
relative of theirs, and that I am but their brother Arthur,
whom t^.ey lest heard from in • letter date I August last,
frolp. WeAtern. Auotr.alt."

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Who w,u.t fr m thi., 111.4 he had bren long to
commuTictt with tin:, that ho 1...1 eiving them
moiey ; his dna visit on his a. 111,1 I t g La, kl was to
inquire alter thrill; and that for two lnuro Infl at been in
constant communication with them?
At this point the Court again st..j.urned.

The trial tithe case proceeded on Saturday, and Mr. Haw-
kins still continued his opet,ing speech. At the sitting of the
Court, before he began, the Foreman observed that the
learned counsel, in opening the Orton cos& had stated that
Arthur Orton sailed for Hobart Town on board the Middleton
Captain John Lea is, whereas Orion, in one of his letter& said
it was Captain Story.
Mr. Hawkins said it was his mistake, and Captain Story
was the captain ; John Lewis was, he believed, first mate.
The Lord Chlof Jostlior sail he presumed there would be
the regerar orticial evi..h.t en of thu11.1:1101 of the ere

Mr. Hon : Certainly. The le trned counsel then
proceeded t • that part of the case which related to tho
real been of the defendant in Civil. His case, he said,
was, that Mten let Chill two 3,, ore before Roger Itch-
borne had left England, Beyond a doubt Orton was In
Chili and at Melipllia ; but he left Englaad for Chili In
the early part of 1851, came back to Wapping, and left at the
end of 1022 for Hobart town. Roger Tinhorns did not
leave England until February, 184, and Orton was back
again In Wapping and on his road to Hobart Town befcre
Roger Tichborne left England at all. (Irt., when at Meli.
MIK made the acquaintance of the family of Castro, and, of
course, when It Mlle oft that•the defendant had been there,
he was anxious to communicate with Castro, and did to by
letter. The cross-examination of the defendant In Chancery
concluded in August, 18:17, and In the course of it he woo
asked as to Mellen's. It wan necessary that he should com-
municate with Cadre, to prepare him for the Inquiries which
would inevitably be made, and on the 28th of August, 1807,
the defendant wrote out to Castro :

"I have got very fat. On arrival in En4land fled my re.
latir,ns dispute my ideutity. lam happy to say my mother
Is still alive ; but 51111, all those beautilul estates I used to
tall you of are kept from me until I prove I am the lame
person I was 13 years ago. Please remember me to, aro,
mentiontng several persons.) Would you show this letter
to them and ask them all to write a few lines to me? It is
very hard for me to lid kept out tI my estates, so I must beg
of you to kelp me all you can. Another strange thing I have
to tell yon- -that Is I. say, I took and made use of your name,
and was only known in Australia by the name of Castro for
the 13 years I was there. I also said I belonged to Chili
they might have known better than that. I assure you I did
not disgrace your name in feats of horsemanship, I hope
you will give ow agent all the information you can when he
calls " Signed) "R. C. D. 1'IC111101Cild."
This lgtter referred to an evident intimacy which hadarisen
at kiellpfila '•l3 years ago " .the letter being written in 1667: ;
and vet it dld not appear that Roger richborne had any such
acquaintance, or was ever at Melipilla. Roger left Rio on
the tleth of April, 1864, and could not, If he had escaped,
have arrived in Australia earlier than July, 1866 ; and the
defendant left Australia in September, 1866—a period of 12
years—whereas the defendant spoke of his having
seen in Australia thirteen years, which Orton had
been. The reply of Castro In October, 1867, alluded
to his correspondent's " stay In the town," aid as-
sured him he was remembered. And It said,
" Duna Francesca Ahumada preserves a curl of your
hair. I bring this to your recollection, in case it might be
of any advantage to you " The letter algo mentioned that
the other side were making Inquiries. The letter was ad-
dressed to Sir It, C D. Ttchborne, and the learned counsel
explained this by observing that the writer naturally sup-
posed his correspondent wrote with his real and right name.
There was no doubt that the person was the same. The de-
fendant replied, begging that a portion of the lock of his
hair might be sent, and Castro accordingly sent it, writing
the following letter, dated January, 1860. (It is to be 113-
.1 eyed that these letters were all written in Spanish, and
that trauslations were read.) As the letter contains the first
statement ot the Orion case, it Ls inserted entire

"Esteemed Sir,—l have in my possession yourlavour of
the let of January of the current year, which you have been
good enough to write to me in reply to mine of the 29th of
Oct bet last year. An agent has come over to Meliptila on
behalf of your opponent. His name is Cevero Barra His
first step was to seek out your certificate of baptism, be-
cause some one told him you had been baptized there by
the priest Don Fernando Barrales He could not, however,
find it, but I know he had interviews with that gentleman,
with Dona Clara Norris de Bayley, and Dona Francesca
Ahumada. He afterwards called km me, in order that I
should show him and give him copies of the letters you
had written to Me, telling me that he had Instructions to
place at my disposal a money remittance, and otter me a
berth in Valparaiso. He did not attain his object. On the
occasion of another journey which he made to Melipilla. I,
having recently received the first letter front you intended
for my father and believing him your agent, showed him
the said letter. Barra endeavoured to make out that you
were an Imp estor—that Mr. Arthur Horton, who was stay-
ing here, was the son of a Loudon butcher, whose father
had sent him to sea in order that he might, by means of
sea voyages, cure himself or a disease in the head called San
Vito ; that in the year 1,5;3 he returned to England, whence
he carne back to America ;that Sir It Cli Tichoonie, finding
Thmelf in the year ltO2 in it tortain lark of England h corn•
ni.nd of his reziment, threw It np, and 'Mewl, come over to
America ; that after travelling about he embarked at Rio
Janeiro on hi. return to England on board a vessel that wee
wrecked before rruching her desti-ation ; that on hoard
this vowel there happened to he Mr Arthur, Iticewl.e
shipped as a passenger; that he made ho almaintance and
gut p newishoti of his ropers, and that Mr Arthur then went
to Australia to await there the death of Sir Roger C. D. Tieh.
borne's father, in order to prow nt himself 11l England and claim
the inheritance. Bring all this to the knowledge of your
worthy defender. This story of your being the son of a
butcher (eariticere) in Loudon springs from the fact, pro-
bably, of your wishing to say that your father was Chan-
llor (canciVer) of the Queen, and that, being ignorant of
Spanish, you ' vying scarcely then begun to speak it. having
recently arrived here, you said he was a butcher (carnicier).
I shall be very pleased to posses, your portrait. I send you
it quarter of the lock of hair which the.St fi ire Ahumad• haa
of yours.'
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This letter, said th• `earned counsel emphatically, spooks
volumes Sea what it conveyed to the mind of the nine a Ito
received it ! " I have received from you a letter signed Tech-
berne. I assume it Is your dame; but the man who was
staying hero bore the name of Orton and described himself
as the eon of a butcher. But there is nothing in that, and
you may have mistaken the two Spanish words of canciller
and eanaceru." This letter was a crucial test as to who the
defendant really wa• The letter clearly recognised
the fact that the defendant had gone by the name of
Orton when at Ilehmlla. What wood have been the
reply ot the real Boat, Tlchborne to such a letter as that,
telling hlm that he had paned under the name of Orton
and had de•cribed himself as the son of a butcher? Surely
he weuld have written back in reply, 'There is some strange
mistake here. I know nothing of Orton." But on the
other hand, what would the real Orton have done? He
would have preserved an absolute silence on these awk-
ward points, sad that was what the defendant had done.
Its simply acknowledged the lock of hair, and wr.de, •' I
am not surprised that the az,nts of the AI., side should
have called upon you, as they are capable of anything.
Don't regard what Don Barra (the agent of his opponents)
may lay ; they will say anything. Tee truth mast and will
prevail." That letter was written in April, Slid Is his
cross-examlnation in the action, indeed, he disavowed the
lock of Lair, and denied that any I clt had ever been cut
from iii, head at all: but In a letter to Roue that very same
month of April, IS6S, he said, "We have received another
!important letter from Castro. Be has sent apart of my hair
bacs in the letter." These/ letters, however, did not satisfy
the defendant's advisers. Ur. Holmes wee a very shrewd
male; and tumours had come to his ears that his client was
Get ,e. Ile himself had written to Castro, and had himself
received a letter enclosing • copy of his letter to his client
the defendant. This letter contented the references to
Orton as the son of the butcher.

The letters written by Mr. Holmes to obtain information
about Arthur Orton being at /AWOL* were reed and coin.

tneuted on ass part olthe scheme adopted by the defendant to
obtain Information how to proceed, and to asoertain how Itt
by whom the idea was find started there that he was Arthur
Orton and not Roger. The Dowager Tidetorne a death tether
ph.", the dele.ndant claimed to be the next of kin, said
a Milt MAI instituted in the Probate Court, whet, a
cowed ni,tri Cam issued to take evil, nce in chili end Austra-
lia. The defendaul at tint iutim 4,1 iOn teitutioe t.• ,fiO, -m-
-ean, it. but he did not do se. The learned counsel their
referred to many Meth nts which were Itroneh'. ,nt on the
trial in the Common Hem, betraying, he e intended, Igno-
rance on the part td the defendant of events ttiat had ee
curred tit the real Roger. Mrs. Jury, wholiad lust, returned
from Wollot be put into the Intl. The only
pc mins oho could be at too places at one time were
the meuthers of the Bar, theugh he could not speak
from txperienot, which, probably, they would suspect.
(Laughter.) A man could not be at Chill and Australia at
the same time, and the order for the c nun'ssion for Chili
only was granted, but the defendant only proc vied no for
as Rio. If be were Roger Tlehborne there was o melon
to explore the country, but if he was Arthur Orton what a
muddle he would have mae of the country, and he left his
friends to go on a fool's errand, anti then to visit Melipilla,
whilst he explor d as much of that twit of the country &a ha
could, apart of the way to Valpa.aiso ; and his reas m for
not going to Chili was because he could not lied his friends
there, but his excuse watt that murder was rife in that part,
and that he was too ill to proceed hp thee The evidence
taken before the Chili Como-ission he was ready to produce,
but in a cr.minal trial it could not be done. From that time t
this nothing had been heard from the defendant's (Ulna]
friends Peasing rapidly in review other incidentr, the
learned counsel came to that pdt of the hint-my of the de-
fentlaut wheu It became rife te this couutcy that he was
Arthur Orton, to meet his supporters and oda explanations.
On that cecuti in ho dented the authenticity of two lands,
aml which he induced scree of hie supporters to believe wete
forgeries, though he admitted it crosoeyaniltiation that
be had told deliberate lie, because he thought if he
ndmitted IS it would injure his cause and tearing, In
1007. that Lady Tichhnrue might after all chance Inr
mind, lie wrote to her—he cautioned her to be particular
what she said to any one who called upon her, and to pre
vent those who might have given her inf‘ rmstion from
having access to her to persuade her about a 1-,1 of rubbish.
On the death et Lady Tichborne letters from Reg, in 1849,
61, '62, '53, and does to March, lBx4, with many other letters
and documents fell into his hands, tegether with Roger's
likeness taken at &Mktg t I pocket-hoek and diary et
Roger when at Stonyhurst, go unto his posseinion. Tile
learned counsel occupied the remainder of the day in
minutely criticising the evidence In chief riven by the de.
teethed, and his cross examination in the rjectineut trial In
the Court of COMIMIII Pleas, and pointed "It its ieeeesje
series anti inaccuracies.
The court again adjourned.

The court re-assembled on Monday morelog at halt•past
tin o'clock.

The Lord Chief Justice sald that a poet letter had been
hooded to him, addrefoted to the Foreman, witch he itself
was lather strarge, and if that gentleman could not identify
the boldwriting, It wonld be better for him not to read
it. The letter might have been written h.r the purpose of
prejudicing him on some point, not that he (the Lord Chief
Justice) supposed IL would.

Th, letter Imo handed to the Foreman, who after a careful
examination of the address, said he could not identify the
letter.

The 1,r.1 ChM Jostiee—Then let It be destroyed and
thrown Into the wastwprp, basket.

Mr. Hawkins then resumed his ~petting speech. Ho
said that when he concluded on Saturday last he in-
formed them of his intention to commence Chid morning
with that part of the ease known as the sealed packet end
Its contents. The defendant swore in his examination In-
chief on the trial In the Court of Common neg., that before
going abroad he gave a sealed packet to Mr llosford, that he
wrote its contents in Mr. Gosford's parlour at Cheriton, and
that he read it over to Mr. Gosford before sealing it up, and
handed it over to him. He further added that he was
abie to repeat substantially the contents, but that he de-
clined to do so, although he had stated it to two or three
persons. Of the foci of the sealed packet, the defispdatit
had been sornewhst incautiously informed by Mr. Meforti
at the interview which took place at the Orparenor
Hotel, in June, 1b67, when he appled his crucial
ted to the delendant. For six weeks there was no
attempt on the delendant's part to satisfy Mr. &oxford
that he could on redaction recollect anything about
the contents of the packet. The defendant did not know
but that the document was still in Me. &oxford's poneedoe,
and might be produced at any moment to contradict him
in the event of his giving a false account of It. In the exa-
mination of Mr. &osford in Chancery it was elicited from him
that at the Grosvenor Hotel he Informed the defendant that
the document was destroyed by him soon after the loss of
the Gad au I when all hope of lingers having survived was
abandoned, and giving Se his reason for doing so that he
considered it a confidential paper, and that, Roger being
dead, it was a document that ought not to be Seen by other
eyes. The defendant having ordained that Information In
hls cross examination in the Common Pleas, made a state.
merit respecttne It which he Mr Hawkins) charged him with
perjury to • more vile and flagrant arid daring and detest.
able extent than he believed could be found in the annals of
criminal history. Lie believed he could bring such an amount
of evidence before them that would leave it beyond the pos-
sibility of doubt that the defendant could escape from the
charge made agalpst him In teat respect. in January, 1852,
he had confided to Mr. Olden, the document in rpiestion,
for he referred to it in • letter to Mr. B!aughter, dated Jar.
6, 1652
ity private wishes and intentions as I intend to have
them carried out it I Pee, I love confided to Mr. tiosford,
and I request you and Mr liJaford will act as trustees and
ex,cutors of illy will."

Thus, therehre, early In January, I.Sf‘2, the seskd packet
was 4p-sited, ter the &holdout conld dial se no other Isl.
rate instructions. Ana again, on the 17112 of Jauurny, he
wrote to Godard—

" I have written my will and left It with Slaughter • and
the only thing I have kit out Is about the church, which
will only build under the ,circucaeLances which I have left
with )ou In writing."

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The paper really deposited was this :
Ttchborne-park pone 22, 1.2 j
" I make. on this day, a promise that if I marry my cousin
Catherine Doughty this year, before three y.ars are over at
the latest to build. church or charel at Tichborne to the
Holy Virgin, in thanksgiving for the protection which she
has thrown over it,, and In pra)ing God that our swishes may
be fulfilled. "It. C. TICHISt,ItNIL"

The document was dated the 22nd of June, 1852, the
last tittle when Roger was at 1 ichhorne. thong's the def,nd-
idit noel his last visit in Septtricier or 0to! or of that )oer,
and hail sworn that he did not give her a c,my of it. To
have avowed ignorauce of the contents of the packet In his
examination w, old have been absolutely fatal to him. It
WAS impouible for a man to have forgotten it, and the de-
fendant prof, seed. to know its coutents, but he ehowed an in-
vincible reluctance to disclose then,. The real Roger would
not have hesitated to atate them, because there was nothing In
them of which any man might be ashome i. Ile thought that
by casting doubts on Miss Doughty he would escape that
searching cross examiziatlon he was certain wouldbe admin-
istered to him ; but he was mistaken. The contents had
not been e hedged to the defendant when, on the 14th
It:briery 1663, he filed an affidavit in Chancery wherein he
stated tat shortly before leaving England in hisroh, 1803,
he r laced in the hands of Mr. Gooier,' a document with
instructions that it should not be opened except on
eertein events happening, one of which he said he knew
had not happened, and the other he hoped had not
happened. In his. examinetion in the trial of the action he
add that kin attentiom to his cousin were found disagreeable
to their parents at the latter part of 1052. Ile was pressed
in cross-examination as to the contents or the sealed packet,
but still declined to say, "from conaiderationa" he sant, "of
delicacy for others." Let it be remembered that It, ger had
been prohlnited by Lady Doughty from writing to his
cousin, and he had never written to her.
One of the Jury Did he not write to her on the 6th of De-
cember, 1052, and again before he went to France?

Mr. Hawkins : Oh, no. There lea letter to another
"Cousin Kate," Mn. Greenwood, and there were some
pieces of Ned frig handed to Miss Dnigh,y, and addressed
to her by Roger, but there were no letters. The engage-
ment was broken off in 1862, and the defendant saul the
first time he saw her afterwards was in November or De.
comber, 1,52, at Tichborne, when he said he told her that
he was unable to marry her after what her father had said.
Ile said he "met her and walked with her." He was then,
he said, staying at Winchester. He added that there were
matt, re which he was very reluctant to state in a public
court, Ile was pressed to do no, but still declined, lie
said "be never saw her after that." He was pressed as to
the words "One of the events, I know, has nut happened,
the other I hope has not." Ile said, "The first is
my return before her marriage." Being asked again,
he said, "I don't know—l think it was my death."
Then being asked as to the other—the event which he hoped
had not happened—he professed most extreme reluctance—
and being premed again he said, "The confinement of my
cousin" The A Monies -General then said solemnly—Miss
Doughty (Mrs. Radcliffe) sitting beneath him " Do you
mean to swear before the Judge and jury that you seduced
this lady?' He then, said the learned counsel, in blasphemous
defiance of Ms oath, said. "I most solemnly to my God swear
it." " When and where 41 it happen?'—" At the Mill."
"When 2"—" Not long after I came from Ireland. " When 2"
About the month of July or August." "Of what year-
-185""—" It was about the latter en I of July or the begin.
gof August." " WEE it before or after the breaking elf
Of the engagement by Sir Edward li.fore. ' "You
say this took place at the Mill. Where Is the Mill ?"
" Almost facing the house in the 'Mime of Tichborue."
"Were you staying in the house?—" I was." How long
before the engagement was broken uff 2"—" About a week or
ten days." "Do you mean to say you left your cousin with
child?"—" No, I didn't say so." "You left, you know, In
March, 1063. You say you seduced her in July or August,
and before the breakbig off of the engagement. You
say you never saw her but once after that—in the village—
and you spoke to her about her confinement l"—" I didn't
say so. She wished to impress It on me." 'When and
where did she tell you I "—"To the best of my belief, when
I met her in the village." " Did you make any further
Inquiry afterwards?"—" No." After reading these questions
and answers to the jury, the learned counsel appealed to
them whether such a story was credible. Then the defendant
was messed to state the contents of the document deposited,
and he said it was dated November, 1852, and that he read it
over to Goaford, and that it related to his cousin being
enceinte. The 01110.1 had been destroyed by Gosford.
One of the Jury: Withoutreading it?
Ilawkina : It had been already read over to him.
The Juryman Yes but that was when it was first writ-
ten.

Mr Jastice Lash: What the juryman tnelns is that (tot.
font destroyed it years afterwards without then remlinfr it.
The Juryman said that was what he meant. The d. en-
went was not destroye until many years after it wes a rit-
ten and ihno.ited. And what he mantel to know won
whether Gosforrt teat it hetet° he then destroyed it, or de-
stroyed it without reading it.
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Mr. Dawkins said he really did not know at that moment
that he could answer; but be conceived it was immaterial,
Mr Miss Doughty elated she had a duplicate of the docu•
went and produced it. Now chat was the vereion of It
which the defendant had give,? In August, 1802, he gave
his attorney this version of it
In the event of my father b;ing in possession before my
return, or dying before my return, he ((irieforsi) was t s act
for him according so instructions contained its the docu-
ment. la the first place he was to have Upton to live at,
and thera ro manage the whole of the estate. He was to
keep the farm in hand, and ahow the greatest kindness
to my cousin Kate and let her have everything she
required. My cousin gave me to understand she was
enceinte, and pressed me very hard to marry her at once I
did not believe such was the case, nor hovel duce heard it
was. I el ways believed Ii was skid to get me to marry her at
once. For this ray father try and persuade me. It also refer
to the village at Priors Deno. He (Gosford) wee to have the
cottages repaired and also to improve the estate in general.
Was also to make arrangements tor Kate to leave England If
that seas true. Both Goeford and wife pressed me very hard
to marry her at once. I do not think Mrs. Onsford knew
about Kate. "B. C. D. TICFIBeRNE."
Being present at the trial to glee his recollection of it, he
wrote this
"Cheriton, Nov., 1852.
"If it be true that my cousin Kate Doughty sh.ruld prove
to be enciente, you are to make all neceatory arrangemenrs
for going to Scotland, and you are to see that Upton is
roperly prepared for her until I return or she marries. You
are to show great kindners to her, and let her have every-
thug she repuires If she remains gre not 11 c mie back
twill marry her. In the event of my cousin's death you are
to take charge of the estates ii my behalf, to keep the home
farm and to repair the cottages at Prior's beau.
C
After reading this, Mr. Hawkins asked the jury lilt was
credible And he went on to urge that the defendant's
account was not credible, because he had a ;mitred various
untruths. The story was not credible ; but the law re-
quired evidence in contraeltction of It, and the jury would
have such evieence. First, Mrs. Radcliffe would say upon
her oath that It was false. He should do more. The de-
fendant had been pinned to a time, and he should show
It Impossible from the dates. Int happened in the earlier
Part of the year then the fact as to her being enceinte would
be known one way or the other. And agahi he was fixed by
the return from Ireland to the latter part of the year, as
he himself stated it, July or August. Again, the dates of
Roger's movements disproved it. Roger was In Canterbury
In June. Hs paid • visit to London, and had a leave of ab-
sence from the 15th to the 23rd of June. He spent three days
in London, and on We 19th he accompanied Lady Doughty

and Ids coasts to Ticabeeme, where he reined nail the
find, and then went back to Ws regiment at Canterbury.
This was tddinown to the defendant, and he could Lot fix
the fact of the visit to June ,for he connected It with Lls
uncle's ii &approval, and no such event ha...fanned in
June. Sloreovtr, he required a visit of ten ela}s'
duration, for i.e put the fact " • week or tens
days " aft r tha euzsgetuent was lin ken off. Rut
this Vlisig in. June templet only two . r three days. During
that short period site, no ...alit, might have ridden acid
walked out with her c -.mile, but al wait with NOM. one else,
and it waa noprabable that these yosa, pe plo would
have been showed t be %toile with each other undiy the
circumstances. There were Styling In the house Roger's
aunt and cousin, Sirs. Naugle and Miss Naugle ; and they
woes there until March, when Roger left ltnriand.
They wool.' be called as wituesses, and Lady Doughty her-
self hat been examine i on her dying bed, and they would
all swear, and their oath sr .s confirmed by her, that Roger
never was at Tichbonie after the 22nd of June, 1862. If
this evidence did not satisfy the Jury, "I declare to God,"
exclaimed the learne I counsel, "I do not know what eel.
dance could he required, or by what evidence a lady of
honour and character coul I vindicate her character against
• foul aspersion." But the case did not rest there, lie
shonld show them, as tar as possible, from Roger's
letters that he was snit-ward. at Canterbury and
other places, sod that ha could not have been at
Tichborno. The lettere shone I that Lwly D mghty
desired that he simuld not visit Tichborne, geisha disapproved
the attachment, and desired it should he discontinued.
Roger, therefore, never afterwards went to Tictliorne That
was the case for the pnlecution on this charge as to the lin.
putatiou upon Sirs. Radollife.

o.h of the Jtiry.—You ay the 'Pahl packet was deposit,l
previously to the sth of Jatiu,rv, 1852. fhe defendant in hie
affidavit .as it add in November.

kilt. HAWKINS Yes, that is so. Roger himself writes in
Jantlary that lie had already •deposlted the docutmnt with
Mr. Guilford. The deflholaut said It was in November. The
learned counsel then passed to other topics, as, for instance,
the account the defendant hal given of It gas's will, which
he put as showing his utter Ignorance of it. After
having made some remarks on the evidence given by
the defendant respecting his Journey be Valparaiso and his
travels to Chili, the learned counsel esid h. must come to
the shipwreck of the Bella. The de f eielant's statement was
false and incorrect he details true only ill the broad
facts. He hoped he should be able to gall before them—
he sold he hoped, because he was not aware if he sue
absolutely in this country Jules liarraut, Itver Thh-
horne's then sena.% and also Captain Oates suet lUptain
Hoskins, who saw Roger on board, need they wool I tell
the Jury that It was folio that be went on board tie Bella
drunk, but he was coriceale I in the la zeretto until the vessel
was clear of the Custom-house beams° he had tiot a pass-
port. After her calling no trace was heard of her except the
wreck that was piked up at sea three Cr four o aye after her
sailing Not one of the crew had ever beeu seen since, or tid-
ings or trace Of them. With the wreck of the Beta Roger MP.
bornele life terminated. After the wreck of the Bella tbe de-
fendarit's story was a fabricate t life of Roger 1 lehborne.
He had no corroboration of his statement -it, was, in
fact, a statement of his own unshed imagination—no
hemmer behig but himself had pretended to be a witness
of that event, and it was a statement iro monstroua
and incredible that Co human being possessed with
ordinary common sense could for • moment believe 14
He next called attention that no report was ever made to
the Mellmiume Cuxtom House of the picking up of the crew
of the Bella if Roger Tichborne had been saved could
they doubt that he would have written home a long,
graphic, and interesting detail of the hardships and
perils that he had undergone, and to express eternal
gratitude to the man who had picked Lim up and tended
him with so much care for three months and al to the ex-
pense of the voyage, what difficulty would there have be en in
a young Euelish gentleman, heir to £20,000 or £15,000 •
year, obtaining the menus of returning home wi horst
Ills being obliged to abandon hope, and take up •
life of toll and penury for eleven long years. After
referring to the incidents in the delendanes Austra-
lian life, the Immo i C91111.10i then proceeded to stale that
the rionsuit in the trial of the Court of Common Pleas
was Eke result of the de fendatit's free will acting under
legal advice, and on his electing net to prosecute the
ease he took it out of the power of the then defendant
to proteed. He should call evidence •ho would prove
that the defendant wee not Roger Tichborrie, and he
would call persons whet!, would also prove that he was
Arthur Orteu. There Wire upon the person of Roger
Charles Tichhorne marks and physical peculiarities that
did not mist on the defendabt,
.and there existed on
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the ijtvi ;;;t- m-i;ik;--lin:1- -ilea re that dia not Wit on It ger
Charles I ohborite, hut which were indicative of the fraudu-
lent nature of this claim.

The reading of the depositions, the Lori Chief Justice
stated, would occupy three or lour days.
The court again adjourned.

kir. Hawkins resumed his speech on Tuesday morning by
referring to the question of handwriting, which he said must
remove the last vestige of doubt that might •exlst In the
minds of the jury that the defendant was Arthur Orton and
not Roger Tichborne. There would be placed before them •
number id the letters of Roger Tichborne, written during
the last few months of his exietence, and he asked them to
compare these with the undoubted letters of the deferalant,
before and immediately alter his arrival in this country In
1666, and he was quite astlsfied that they would trace no such
resemblance as could for one moment lead to the supposition
that they were written by one and the same person, Arthur
Otto made such errors In spelling as " chilkiren,"
likly," " receve," "recevedd," '' I am &going," and
the defendant in his letters committed precisely the some
blunders. The learned counsel concluded Lis eddies, tn the
following words i—Gentlemen I am not torero of any other
matter which I need place before you prior to cantos ere-
deuce lin support of the grave charges brought against the
del. mama. I have eailed your attention to the hatnta, edu-
cation, correspondence, sentluiente, and feelings of toe
young goo leman whom I chaige tlei de fondant with fraud-
ulently atteuiptitig to personate. I have called your &Mom
Mon to the lac, habits, correspondence, sentiments, and
feelings of Arthur Orton, whom I chuge the defendant to
be. No two persons could In all respects be more
unlike each other. I have called )our attention to the
various accounts which the defendant has given of him-
self how he would have you believe that, being a
highborn Eneli.h gentleman, Roger Tichborne hal
voluntarily, w.th fortune at his command, descended to
manual service of toil, penury, and hardship, and forgotten
every tie of duty and sacred affection towards those to whom
he owed both how with wealth and educat on which would
have enabled him to mix and move in society befitting his
station, anti which he left, he has preferred the occupation
of • slaughterman, and chosen for his associates highway-
men and thieves bow from a man of honour anti truth, he
would have you bi lieve that Roger 1 ichhorne ham coude-
reended to be a trickster and • knave: how, with a deceit
unparalleled, he has for his own ends, under cover of his
ignorance tit the om toidler Iciest of the man whose nem,
Its has ue umed, id Irealtated to Minute to him baseness
Ingratitude. I have called your attention, moreover, to how
the dtlendant would have you b hove that with a memory
so marvellous an to enable him to relate with ac-
curacy the most puerile trifles, he has forgotten his
own mother tongue, and has become oblivious ef events
which, once known, never could have been effaced from the
memory el a man who had taken part in thore events. 1
have culled your attentton to the letters and living testimony
which I propose to offer to your consideration. I shall also
lay before you the evidence of the dead. Since the last trial
Lady Doughty haa doted her eyes in peace. In the hour
of her death, and with a coml.-manes' that in a few minutes
she was about to enter into the presehee of her God, to
whom she swore, she recorded her oath that the defendant
was not the man that he swore he was. With such
testimony, added to those inferences which I have invited
you to draw as reasoning men, I believe I shall be able to
satiety you that the defendant is not Roger Charles Itch.
borne, as he has falsely sworn himself to be, but that he ts
Arthur Orion, whom I charge him to be ; and that in the
foul mpersion which he has made upon the characrer and
re urethan of the lady whose name has been BO often referred
to in three procedings ho Idea committed perjury the most
daring and detestable.
Formal proof was then given of the trial of the ejectment
case, " Tichborne 0 Lushtngton," in the Court of Common
Fleas. The record was put in and read.
be. Kenealy then called attention to what he called a fatal
variance between the record and the indictment, the lath r
stating the action in be between Thomas Cadre, otherwise
Orton, otherwise Tichborne. The pleader had jumped to a
foregone conclusion that Castro, Orton, and Tichborne were
the same person, which was the isaue this court had to try.
The Court overruled the objection.
Dr. Kenenly then took an objection to the jurisdiction of
of the Court. The offence in the emceed count was alleged
to have taken place withiu the city of London and the trial
was taking place in the county of Middlesex. Ile appre-
hended It was a fatal objection. A Middlesex jury could not
try an offence committed within the city of London.
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The Court also ovtrruled this objection. The Court of
Queen's Bench had power to try the case and by its own Jury.
The accuracy of the reports of evidence given by the de-
fendant on the trial, him cross-examination, and re-examiLa-
Bon was proved by the shorthand-writers.
The first part of the examination of the defendant as to
theearly years of R .ger Tichborne was then read, prepara-
tory to calling witnesses on that bead—the Abbk Salle and
the Pijre Lefevre, who had known Roger In Paris, where his
parents lived at the time of his birth and childhood.

He said his age was 42 (that was In 1871 . and that his
parents lived at the Rue Si. Ifonot. Parts. When he was
eight or ten Chatillou came to teach him, and continued
to teach him until about 1845; that about twelve or
thirteen year, of age he went on a trip to Ponic, a place
in Brittany, and there hal a fall, by which he received a
cut on the back on his head. of which, he raid, he had
still the mark. Ile remembered, lie said, souse cousins,
relatives of his mother, named Itremont. Ile confessed, he
said, to be the Alite Sails, his mother's confew I. Ile re
membered no one else, except the bankers. Ile was In Eng-
land, he said, several timek before 1545. Chatillon went
with him on one occasion, and they null to Tichoonme Ist
1845 he finally left Parts and went to England, and was sent
to Stonyhurst. In cross-examination he said he was not
at school at Paris, but that Chatillon taught him, and
that he taught him nothing beyond an ordinary school
education—no Latin or Greek. Ihe AIME. Salts, he said,
was his contessor. Ile did not, he said, remember • M Leh,
here nor M. Comet, 111. Jolivet nor General Joubert nor
M. Laforet, nor Si, Dopanloup, the celebrated Bishop of
Orleans. "Should you be surprised to find that Roger
Charl,,s Tichborne went to school with M. Dupaulolln at
Paris?—! tell you I never went to school till I went to Stony-
burst." "Would you be surprised to hear that M. Cornet
was a tutor of Roger Tichborne 9—. Nothing of the kind"
" Would you be surprised to find that M. Joilvet was your
tutor for more than a pearl—Nothing of the kind." "Would
you in. surprised t 3 hear that If, Lefebvre was the priest who
prepared R. ger for his first communion, and was his confes-
sor before he left Paris 7—tie was not .o." June 0,157 i.—
" Who trepsred you for communion c—Tho Abbe Salts."
"Your conlessort—No, I think not" Ile raid he did not
remember a man named °unmet, who, it was suggested, was
for many year. the valet of Roger's father In Rens Wednes-
day, June 7, 1871.—Asked whether he knew Vaogirard, he
said N.e." " Would It comprise you that V,engirarel Is a so'
bomb of Paris where Roger Charles Tichborne went to school for
a year 7—l'm sure I never went to school at all in Pada
" Not where M. Dupantoup, the present Bishop of Orleans,
kept a school 7—No.', He said that Chattlion was his only
tutor and his only tostructor for the ten years from 1895 to
1815 Ile ssid he confessed to the Abbé Sails, "ii to any
one," in Paris. And erste, ens subsequent day, he said he
did not recollect anything about M. Dupauloup or M.
Lefehvre "Would you be surprised to find that Rorer
Charles Tichhorne lived on the most affectionate terms for
years with M. Lefebvre 7-1 don't say It would surprise me."
"Are you aware that Si, Lefebvre was 0110 of his most inti-
mate friends, and that Roger pasted some of the last Ileum
of his stay 10 Europe with him don't recollect. '

The Abbe Salle wav then called and examined. He is a
venerable.looklng ecclesiastic of the old French school, pro-
bably about 70 years of age. Ile spoke only French, and
was examined by Sir. Serjeant Parry through the medium
of an interpreter. lle stated that he perfectly well knew the
late Sir James and Lady TRW) rifle, and their son, Roger
Charles From 1839 to 1848, when Raker left Port., the
Abter) Sow him. he said, several times each week, residing in
the same house with hie parents. Ile saw Wm also alter
his return to Paris in 1861, and again in 183, before he
went to South Amerira Ile knew Roger, he raid, Inti-
mately and perfectly. When he first knew Roger his tutor
was M.. Chatilion. After that M. Lel orct was his tutor
for • few weeks, and then the Abbe himself was his tutor,
end then M. Jolivet, and then M. Cornet. It -Ter, he ssi
also went for fifteen days to • seminary directed by 11
Duhauloup, now Bishop of Orleans, "whom we all know,"
and the Abbe added that he believed Roger spoke to lam of
It. The Abbe was only his tutor for stx weeke, and mild he
taught him "a little of everything," including Latin, and
taught him out of Latin books. This was when Roger was
about 10 or 12 years old. Roger, he said, had a very slow
Intellect, and he translated Latin slowly, " hut for a begin-
ner not so badly." It iger never, the Ab, 0 said, confeesed
to him, but to the vicar of the Madeleine, and also to Le
i ere Lefebiro !his It r waver, vessobjected to and rejected
as hearsa).) The Abe, said Ire never had been (as the de-
fendant had described him) the confessor of Roger's mother.
The Abil received • letter from Roger while he waa
Stonyhurst, which he produced. The letter was in
French, and a tranelation was read. It inquired after NI.
cornet, and ask, d for confidential hews off In recent, kc.
he letter was us in en den: e.; 1 he Abl)6 said he &leap;
spoke to Roger in French, sod never heard tern speak Er g-
fish : and, indeed, the Afire does not understand Reran I.
Roger spoke French perfectly—much bette r than be wrote
It. In 1853, the Able s.id, he saw Roger siveral times be-
fore he left Euro; e for South merica. Roger, he seed,
was acquarnted with a M. D'Aranka, who wag now over
here. In 1866 Lady Tichborne was loins in Paste, and the
Abbe remember d her speeklug to him several timm about
the expo,' eel arrival of her son. She said he had arrived- in
England, and the Abbe told bar it was Strange he did not come.
She told WM the siary of all that ha had undergone, and

UM /Obi told her It could nollhave been her Sun, who would
never have undeiwohe all snob hanishlms linnectasarily'
Afterwards she a.m./weed hie arrival iu Parts. She told
him where he was staying there she :.ever said the had
recognized hiM. She proposed to the Abi:e t. go and see
him In order to recoils/Lire him, lie replied,'' I shall be happy
to recoguir, Min if It In he; but it is not he, for lilt bad
be, n be would have come to see you al .d me " She
male, the A,bi, said, offers to him of recompense if he
would moguls. hit,'. She threw out, he said, hints or sag
gestions of reward, such es one would off r to one Shunt Is
was wished to bribe, lie remembered in 18;0 or ISsl fleeing
marks on the Iran of R•erer, who pulled up hi, sleeve and
showed them, lie could not, however, say whether they
were on the right or left arm, nor could he describe there at
all, except that the colour was blue. Ile first saw the defen-
dant in 1871, at the former trial. Ile saw him uIM.
Mr. Serjeant Parry : Is he Roger Charles fichborne 7

The AbLC: .No (very emphatically ).

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One of the jury sugnested the further quotion, "Is there
any resemblance to html"
The AbbZ, still 111,0 emphst!'allY, and putting his hands
fie his sidc—Non. (Much laughter)
Mr. Kenealy desired to postpone We cross eximinallon
till to-morrow, as the usual hour for adjournment Lad
arrived, and be hirusel, he said, alter eg hours, was ex-
hausted.
The Lord Chief Justice acceded to the application, at the
toutt accordingly adjourned.

At the titling of the court ris Weilnesday inoining lh •
Lord Chlef J indica said a letter had been handed to him, ad-
dresied Co the "Foreman of the Jury in the Arthur °Aim
trial," and giviug It to the itaattr unopsheil he directed that
It should be put to the fire.

The crosa.sxaminatien of the Able Sins by Dr. KA-Leafy
then commenced. lie said that when he firs, knew 11 iger
Tichtiorne lu IS3U, at 334, Roe it. Hoorn/ , be WAS ten ye ars
old and " very glow to disposition, both with regard to cha
racier and intellect." Rdger we., however, "neither lacy
nor stupid, but only Idle?' (a, laugh ) The house, No 3e4,
still existed, such as it was then. Witness could not re-
member that there was in 1b39 an old build', g opposite
culled the Hotel In Lmivre. Since that period the
Rue St. Honol9 between the church of ht. Roche
and the Rue Royale had not c harmed. Ile• could
not say whether the Louvre could be seen from the
fourth story or the top of the house, ache had never been
there, but he delieved it could not. When Roger came under
his tuition he knew Very little. tie did not examine Roger
In the muffin nts of LAM His knowledge of Latin con.
slated in his construing after him the epitome 4 1 sacred
history. lie cold not say he knew any of the declet,sions.
lie did not believe Rover read bad ho, ks, and he never re-
monstrated with hint en his habits, (Cross-examination con-
Untied.

F6re Lefevre (also examined through an interpreter said :
I am Alexis Lefevre, preacher. I knew the 1 ichbornell
Mist In 1819 I first knew the family through Roger. He
was entrusted to me, and I was his coutereor I knew him
before he left Paris in 1862. I remember hie first cone.
mention very welL I prepared Moo for It. He received his
lint communion at St. Koch, but I was not present.
1 remember Roger leaving Faris for Monyhurst. Up to that
time Roger had been in the habit of conversing to use. I
knew him well from 1839 to 1863 We always conversed In
the French language. Ile spoke the language very well,
with the Parisian accent. During hie boyhood his mother
used often to say that he wa. of *delicate constitution. He
tieed to tell me that he swallowed soup enough to kill
him (laughter). lie used to complain to are that he was
dyleg from the pinntity of soap he was obliged to swallow
ilaughter). Ills mother very often gave him money to In-
duce hien to take soup. The amount used to vary:
sometimes five, sometimes tee, and sometimes twenty
francs It gee sometimes gave me some of the money
for the poor. Rog, r visited ma regularly on my
birthday and saint'e day up to the time of his
leaving for Stonyhurst. Upon these OCCIIIIiOI3II Roger
brought offerlues for the poor. I used to relate to him
the history of St. Alexis. I told Roger a story about the
colour of my hair—its turning white. Roger asked me how
It was that, being no young, my Lair had turned stile I
told Lim that whilst I was in ',pion I received an account of
my father's death. I received it at first in a print, but in my
sleep I dreamed that my father was killed wider my eyes. I
was seized with much emotion, and my hair turned
white. I told bin, the circumstance ou several occa-
sions. Roger whtn 16 year. of age confided a secret to me
In Vie event uf his receiving the hand of his Collith, Mias
Doughty, he was in love with. Ile said he loved her, and
that It was au attachment of a must reepeciful cha-
racter. He mid that he had made the promise that if
he 0 arried her he would build a church. I have
the clearest recollection of It. lie told me positively he
would expend 200.0.:0 or 340,003 Iran,. in doing sr. I saw
hlm last before he left for South Amen.., and he then spoke
to me more particularly about the proMise he bad made. I
received his cmfession at that time. That was the last time I
saw Egger tan, not quite positive that I saw the marks upon
his arm. I told him, however, that It was working men and
soldiers who were so marked. Roger safd In England It was
usual to do so. I parted with Roger on the most affec-
tionate and usual term.. I embraced him and gave hint the
customary bleislng. In 1667 the defendant did not call
upon me in Eerie I saw him on the last trial for the first
time. lie is not Roger Charles Tichborne.
After tee cross-examination of Lefevre, the ,Court
again adjourned.

i The foregoing report is necessarily condensed, on account
of our limited space. J