The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-07 00:00:00

THE TICHHORNE TRIAL

(Our limited apace precludes tis from givin mer
ban the following condensed account)

The following summaries of the respective days'
proceedings are taken from The Times:—

CONTINUATION OF THE SUSISIING-UP.

The Lori Chief Juseice [in Friday], continuing his summing
up, resumed Ms review of the life and cheramer of Roger T,ch-
borne as represented in his lettere in doing so he divided
It ger's tire Into five lead.ng heads or epochs, the first of which
waa hie life In huts, and the next his life stei.ouyburst, with
b ,th of which he dealt telly ow I hursday. Tee third, he said,
was the period of about a twelvemotith—al ter his leavirg
et my bunt in Anger., ldee, to his going into the army
In October, 1849—occupled chiefly In preparing him
self for euterieg the Inlay. Ihe fourth lie' fed core
prised his life in the army from Octoner, 1849, to the
end of 1812—a pond, honorer, auhdivided Into two
great re:ramie, hold log his military lift Mat In Ireland,
and then In Eoglanit, when the r, giment was in Canterbury.
The fifth and lam period of Roger's Ilfe wee that which in-
tervened between his leaving the army and his embarcation
on hoard the Bella a pert, d leatn subdivided into two per s
—the first comprising his life until he railed to Valparaiso,
and the secoud Ids wanderings in Booth Atuence, down
to the time of his embarceil. n. Tee previous day the Lord
Chief Justice was occupied with the third period of
Roger's lee—Ms preparation ter the errny—au 1 the
to reef part of his military life—the portion •.f it spans
in Ireland down to the ct, so of t e rear 1850. Tie period
el about a t emvemouth elects Intervened between his leav-
ing Membernat Sari enteriug the army woe passel, the
Lord C clef Josece observed, chiefly et Tichbonie with his
mint and me& Doughty. and at Kemple with his Me' Mei
uncle, Mr. Seymour ; curled by shorter Yell., as, for in.
titmice, a visit to Bath to see soother uncle io J.milary, 1,49
Adverting to the o•l,ittlett of the "'Miter, Mary Neale,
who had sworn that on "several uccasimie " she had aeon
Boner ner It irh In the early part of thet year, the
Lord Chief Justice obterved that he failed to find any trace
of any either visit to Bodh except the one in J ineary, while
on tbe thee aloft g to a later start by Roger to
. fish to teks leases of Mr. Seymour, who seem after died
1 there ( f which the die em.ant had no recotlection). the Lord
Chiel Jihd,co asked If Roger could ever li.ve forgotten it.
The Lord Chief hurl. nit, node-el R ie.', visit to Bliton
; Grange, the seat if Mr. Washie gton ilibbert, where be
met Lord Howth's lawny, and Lord St. Lawrence and his
; slaters, whom R otter afie,wards visited whets In I eland.
The Lord Chief Justice noticed finger's personal applies
Mona to Lord tette oy Somerset for a commisslim In the
' army, and his pleasure at nee:vine it from that poblernau
and he alleeed to the defendant.. ignore,. of Lord
Fitzmy Si merest'. name. Adverting to the studies in
which Roger engaged preps. +tory to his examination at
Eismihrirat, the Ltd Cele justice printed out eldest,nae in his
lett ra to his haviog taken Itll3ooll in anathema :ice, sod to
hie knowledgr el gu,did ; and he not:ced Om though ou
su,aeguent 1.01.1011, with referee en to another Math.-
tion for promotion, R ten °heaved teat he shoald not
have been Ole to stand so examination in the "six hooks
of Read." yet this, at all eveute showed some know-
ledge of fluid, and he remluded the jury of the &tandem's
ignorance of the name or mature of the er,ed mailitruattcten's
work, lie site i Muted lit that Roger "t used " iris ex-
amioatiess In French, history, and in fortification, thong', he
d te arithmetic, which might, be th Audit, have been
owing to hie fore ten education and hi. Ithettyll antsnce with
the E .glreh mode i.f numeration WI, h reference to the In-
&roe, eviler ce ft, to educielon aft riled in Roger's titers, the
Lord Ci id Justice ob•erved i hot the allude. to the works of
M Sato and Chat., widened and the life of Louts XVI , and
numer .us other allint it,, in t la letters to Wet.) or net dical
topica, 'hosed that Roger cold not have been so imioraht
•person as the defendant's coin- set had represented And
With ref, role, to his misspeeteg c itesecnrectes in ..rittilg,
he Manned that reauy of them were Galitoisms, that there
were no nOgarisins, that Roger wrote wit., are and fluency,
had plenty of tints, and had no diet ulty in expresslog them
Mr. Janice Lush re marked that he al mays me, e with perreot
good taste and propel, ty—a remark te wht di the Lohl Chief
Juattoe entirely c incurred. C erne to the eponh wh.n Roger
it same f size —ln Jaeuary, 18 o—the Lied f Justice pr, -
nu del, r-aui, g oripledisty fr. on Roger'. ,etters, and comment.
lag upon thorn, to direct attentom perticulaely to their hear-
ing on the two impoi tent suoj cots—Roger'. affection for his
00t11110 and his rolleatiette. in the atraegem ate teen
entered let° uith reference to the handy estates, arid
especially solo Upton, which is talent' nod to Vie defendant's
verdon of the "sated packet " With reference to the
former of these subject. sad Reger's correspondence with
his mud, Lady Doughty, up•'n It, the Lord Chief Justice ob-
served, after reading and co' meeting on may of these
letters, that It was impossible not to ere that they revealed
rock. eepth of feetlug le Roger's breast upon the alibi-et
ILI showed hat it hal 'i, uohed his hearestrinis "set that
It was morally imposeible that he could over have forgotten
it so that his mmd could have bee 'me. Munk upon it as the
"e'en lint's, he said, undouhtelly was; and tho Lord Cala
Judi. went on to say, with emphasis, that h.- could hardly
conceive of any one reaolug these lettees mid adopting the
segirmliou of toe dehnilant's counsel that Roger had neve r
fel, a 4eicere !affection for his cousin W:th reforeece to the
o.twr aubject, the Lord Chief Justice we* st great palns to re-
elitist the legal meal n of the family property end the eft eo-
of the new arrangements entered into with the renounce, •
of Roger, when he ecame of age, and especially with refer-
ence to Upton, in, which Rove felt a peculiar loterest, but
over which he weuld dare DO power whatever during the
lives a his uncle and his father, and he read and c. rot:meted
upon Roger's letters on the rubject wilt a view to sit .w
wbethet ir CO, hr thoroughly on -erstood the subject. This
the Lord ()WM Justice said he considered of very great Ire-
mittenoe with reference to the defendant'e asses.. on the
subject (that i.e tail "entailed Ms Lather," Ac.), and Men
with rater mce t his suhreguent instruotio. as to his will
lo J ,thine, 1852, when, accoruing to the wrid, nee for the
prosecutien, the scald to.t.ket wes his:, deposited. the L rd
C iief Justice prilmed out that R gee'. letters shnwed that
ue had a stroeit feeling aeout Cpeose, Dim he well keew
what It to rest he hail It. it, end that It was a reversio, ary
eetermt aftos the lives of his uncle and father, and that
he had a great conteot snout it with his family in order
to retain Stile teterett (in which he succeeded), end that
therefore he oust have known all about it; and he Said
Ii Wi raid be fur the jury hereMter to cor elder whether
, too eidetic:sauce at.sw.rs on tee subject sh,ivt 11 entire
ignorance shout It, and, if ai, whether it wes consistent
sub the tto y set up to explain it—thec Roger
knew eothing an at it tmd was 5 Were motive instrumeut Ia
the le I tila Londe in to arrang-moats he entered into
The t,i el Cadet Juittce more than ''nor euplotoel tent hOc
o• Joe sit eeterieg an folly Into the le wing topics o. Roger's
into 9/168 heresy:, to conieme the deretelaua's answers toc.
three sehJects whit what might ee amp pied to be It get's re.
codeetim. abidit them, end he again and again declared his
erie of the entreeo importeece of R lone. letters es a rr-
oord, p nt enly of facts, etit of the tmprewelon they list made
pon his mind slid memory.

HUNDRKL, AND oIsVENTY FIRiT DAY.
The Lord Met Ja.tica, Ui reauthirs hi. clittreura Monday,
th in continued hie renew of e cidoete of r Tichbarne's
111 e, as disclowd in lettere. Punning the plan ito had pro.