The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-07
The Great Tlchberne Case-Is tho Ciai'
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The abrupt and extraordinary termination
Of the famous Tichborne case will not surprise
our readers, as the dispatches received from
the HERALD correspondent in London q day
or two since, announcing that the jury had
expressed themselves satisfied with the evil
dence so far as it had progressed and ready
to declare verdict, indicated that the claim
ants case had virtually broken down. Upon
this declaration the Court adjourned until yes
terday morning TO enable the Tichborne claim
ant and his counsel to agree upon line of
action. Their conclusion was announced yes
terday, the counsel for the claimant saying
that their client had resolved to withdraw his
claim. The Attorney General, who repre-
sented the defendants, Immediately made an
application to the Court for an order to arrest
the claimant upon the charge of perjury, and
to hold him in bail in the sum OF fifty thou
sand pounds. The order was granted, and
the ''baronet" and assumed heir to one of the
oldest and proudest names in the English
baronetcy was arrested yesterday and locked
up in Newgate prison.
So ends, for the present. one Of the most
extraordinary trials in the history of English
Jurisprudence. We give elsewhere a sum-
mary of the case, the interest of which will
transcend that of any romance. A young
man, an heir to an ancient title and great
fortune, but of an idle, purposeless, vagrant
nature, drifted into the army as young gentle
men of his stamp generally do, and served in
Ireland and England for short time. Weary
ing Of military discipline and yielding to
the gypsy instincts of his nature, and having
had quarrel or an enlargement with his
father on the subject of money, he sold his
commission and left England for Australia.
When last heard from he had shipped on
brig in South America bound for Mel
bourne. The brig went down at sea
and all on board were supposed to have
persisted: The circumstances of the young
barronet's death came to England. An adver-
tisement was published calling upon the world
to divulge some tidings of the wanderer,
whether he was dead OF living. No answer
came. The baronetcy and the large estates
passed to the next in kin. The mother Of the
hayward youth mourned for him with all the
patience and hope of maternal love, and
would not believe him dead. Long after the
Courts had decided the case, and the new
heir had come into possession, and the world
had regarded her son as dead, she chung to the
faith that he would come again. The father,
who had married late in life, died in 1862 at
an advanced age, while the mother survived
until 1868 Upon the fathers death the
baronetcy passed to his son, the younger
brother of the wanderer, who died in 1866,
leaving his title and estates to an infant son,
who was born after his death and is now the
heir presumptve.
The Tichborne baronetcy, which the wild
young officer threw away to find his destiny
in the wilds of Australia, is one Of the oldest
and proudest in England. 1t is twenty second
in the order Of precedence, and was created
by James l., when he founded the title.
Sir Roger was the eleventh in lineal
descent; but long before the pedantic
and grasping Stuart was led by his
ambition and his wants to establish the
order, the name of Tichborne was among the
the time of the Saxons, when De Itchenborne,
as it was called in the old Norman French,
was famous family in the county of Hants.
We find that Sir Roger de Tichburne was
knight of Henry H. this Henry being only
third in descent from the Conqueror, who
reigned as King of England and Duke of
Normandy and Aqutaine, the first of the
Plantagenets, memorable in ecclesiasti-
cal history as the antagonist of ABeckett,
at whose tomb he prayed while the
edited monks inflicted well-earned
penance. This takes us back seven
hundred years. We find another knight, Sir
John. as "a person of great eminence," par
sheriff and justice-itinerant
in the reign of Edward 1.-the same virtuous
and sacred prince who was tumbled out of his
throne aud cruelty put to death in Berkeley
Castle only five hundred and forty-five years
ago. 1t was a De Tichburne, Benjamin by
name, loyal and vigilant in the service of the
good Queen Bess, whose zeal for the true sue
cession led him, as the world will gratefully
remember to proceed to Winchester as soon as
Elizabeth went to rest with God, and without
orders from those in authority, clearly seeing
the inevitable with his prudent English eyes, to
proclaim James /. as King. For which prompt
and judcious service the gracious Scotchman
made Benjamin baronet, and thus he stands
recorded as the first of his line. They were
Cavaliers, these Tichbornes, and suffered for
the cause, and were jealous in the apostolic
Roman faith, the fifth of the line, Sir John
Hemingild, becoming Jesuit and dying in
sanctity at Client one hundred and twenty
years ago.
1t was in 1854 when the vagrant baronet
was given up as having died at sea. Sud-
denly, after twelve years had passed, news
came that he had not been drowned, that he