The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-14 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL

The whole of Thursday was occupied with the cross-
examination of '' Captain Brown,' the witness who was
called on Wednesday to identify the defendant with
Roger T,ohborns from haviog seen him at Rio, and also
to identify the mate of the Osprey, ay the V.. 1101 'Web
picked him up at sea. The whom. on Wednesday
deposed that he we, at Rio in April, 1851, when Roger
was about to embark on board the Belle; that on two
occasions he had given him • bed in a double bedded
room in which he rlet4; and that on both °erosions in
the morning he sa • Roger bathlog in the bedroom, acd
saw on him the "brown mark " to which the
dent appealed In his first letter to the Dowager as •
proof of his identity, and which the defend's%
uadonbledly his on hi. person. He also swore to •
soar on the fore-arm; but he was asked nothing about
the thumb. The orms-examination of the witness
turned a great deal on the statements he Is sworn to
have made at the meeting at Wapping, at which Mr.
Whalley lIMP in the chtir, and at e high It appeared he
declared the defendant to be the Roger Tichborne he
had seen at Rio, and that Roger hod the sear on his
arm, and the brown mark on his side, aid also a
peculiar thumb such al the defendant has. Being
asked which thumb It was, he said it was the right one,
whereas that of the defendant is the left, and, being
asked as to the sirs of the brown mark sad the sear, hie
statement* were different from those he give yesterday.
He was erase-examined as to the circumstances under
which, he said, Roger Tichborse bad ems to sleep and
bathe in his bedroom, instead of at his own hotel, 150
yards off, and he said it wee because Roger was on
both cesesions too drank to get to his hotel ; and he
further stated that the criptain of the Bela and Captain
Outee, who has been examined as a witness for the
prosecution aid gave • very different sesout, were in
Roger'. *cupric' at the time and were both drunk, and
he went on to swear that Use two captains and Reser
want on board the Bella drunk, and that not only Hiey
but the whole crew were drunk when the ship sailed.
The orouexaminsUon was for some time dirested to
rugged the inherent improbatility of the exeunt and
its heensisteney not only with the evidence of Captain
Oates, but even with some of the morn statemente of
the defendant himself in his croes-examination. At •
later ?period of the day a statement of the periods of
the witness's service on board • number of merchant
vessels, written and signed by himself, was predated,
from which it appeared that at the time be had sworn
be was at Rio he was serving on board a mewl at asa.
When challenged with this he said the date of his
souring the service was wrong upwards of • pear; on
which it was pointed ont by the Lord (fillef Justices
that this made the period of his melee at sea wrong to
the same extent, and &clothes. J sdp pointed out that
upon this statement, written and signed by binned', he
had obtained his muter's sertilleale ,• and, again, the
Lord Chief Judas pointed out that the paper mowed
that the statements must have been verified by
vonchers—that is, by mirthful*e from the masters of
the various vessels ss to the periods of his nervier on
board—to which he at first replied that the voucher,
were false., withal be afterwards exploinad to mean that
they wen wrong as to the period of servios so far as
related to the year 1853 4. The reexamination of tbe
witness, in which It wee endeavoured to explain these
discrepancies and to set up his credibility, was not cm.
eluded when the Mart adjmnied ; the crouneel for the
defence avowing that he deemed It of great importance,
as the crouexamlnation had suggested that the witness
was not at Rio at ail when Roger was tl ere, and that
the whole of his evidence was unworthy of notice.
On Friday, Captain Brown re-examined to explain
the dilemmaticy between his statement that he warn at
Rio in 1854 with the date on his master's earthiest*
showing him them to be at sea, said the discrepancy
arose from a mere error of dist*, and that this would
appear from the original ca.rtafteate, which, however, he
said had been lost when he wss out away at sea.
This was now met by the production of the certificate
and an Andel document signed by himself, declaring
that he bad deposited it for the purpose of renewal,
In answer to this he declared he had never deposited
It, and could offer no explanation of it. prod...um:,
Edward George Eels, formerly in the Cambium, I
identified the defendant as Tichborne. Ann Markham,
who was In the service of Si. James la 1853, and who
knew the family previously, Margaret Hornbrook, and
Ann Adams, both wives of old Carabineers, also identi-
fied him. George Nash stated that when In litibource,
1854, he went on board • ship called the Osprey, about
400 tont, with rotted stern, painted black. The erne-
examioatite elicited that hs had only recently mentioned
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