The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-06

liz AlLOtNE1 tESEhAlr'Sa SP EECH-
4 THE CLAIMANT IAN IMPosToR. PER
/ "FRAUD, LIES, AND CRIMES UNEXAM-
4 PLED,n &C., &C.
! From the New York World
LONDON, January 15.-And now comes the
4 defendant, and says -. Let us hope what
he has to say, however interesting it may be,
4 will be said in less time than has been con-
stunned by the plaintiff. It Is two hundred
and sixty days since the trial commenced.
But there has been long vacation and a
/ short vacation, and the court only sat for four
/ days in each week. With all this the story of
1 the claimant took seventy days to tell. To
/ day the story Of the defendant commenced.
/ II public interest had ut all slackened in this
/ most romantic trial it freshened up again to-
day, and became more intense than ever. The
widest ,rumors were afoat as to What the
| theory Of the defence would be, and long
before the hour of meeting crowd blocked
| the approaches to the court, so that, notwith-
standing the admirable police arrangements,
the entrance to those who had duties to per-
form in connection with the cause was rem
dered very difficult Within few moments
of the opening of the doors the RECONSTRUCTED
and inconvenient court was most undesirably
crowded.
At IL O'Clock the Lord Chief Justice took
his seat upon the bench, and the jurymen
having answered to their names, the proceed
ings Of the day commenced.
| A long discussion took place between Mr..
Gitlurd and the Lord Chief Justice as to the
grounds upon which his LordShip had reject
ed the evidence which had been rendered to
show that person, whilst recolecting other
things, might forget his mother tongue.
The Lord Chief Justice said that the posi-
bility that this might happen had been con-
coded by the defendants counsel The advi-
sers for the plaintiff, however, might call wit
nesses to prove that it had actually occurred,
| If they thought fit.
Nine. Rosalind Lansburg was called into
the witness-box.
The Lord Chief Justice said that the posi-
| tlon OF the matter was this, that he would
admit evidence, if pressed, to show the pos
| slbnity of this forgetfulness occurring, but
should reject evidence to show the proba-
| bility of it. Etc should not admit evidence
TO snow that various persons had forgotten
their mother tongue to establish the iufer-
ence that the plaintiff himself might have
done 80.
The witness said, in answer to Mr.. Gif.
fard: l am native Of Poland, and lived
there until was twenty; am now forty
four; spoke German and Polish then.
y. Can you now understand the Polish
ianSuage1 A: believe not; in my child
both languages ut school; have tried TO
speak Polish many times, but could not,
Q. Had you full command of Polish until
you were 20? A. Yes; could speak very
well, write, and read it; / left my native coun-
try when I was 20; went back there in
1866, and l was not then able to converse
with my own relations in Polish.
The Acknowledgement, Sir John Duke
Coleridge, then began his
OPENING FOR THE DEFENCE.
The extreme bitterness of his speech, of
which proceed to give the substance, NAV
he explained in two ways: it. may be the
honest expression of the learned advocates
feelings, or it may be the mere trick Of one
who acts on the wcll-known rule which di-
reefs one who has no defence to abuse the
plaintiff. The Attorney-General said that he
| had lived long enough in the practice of his
profession to know that it was necessary for
him to ask with all his energy for the strict
attention Of the jury. The advantage of the
first word was so great, and the plaintiff
story was so strange, that it must have made
a great impression. Ills duty, however, was
to contend that all the hopes Of the Itch
borne family were centred in the young lad
who was his client, and that the noble lady
his mother was not to be cast down from the
position occupied by her and her child by
the audacious schemes of an impostor, pei
jurer, forgcr, and villain. [Applause.]
The Lord Chief Justice said that no such
demonstration rs this could be celebrated, and
therefore it must not be repeated.
The Acknowledgement, in continuation, sale
that he had used strong words, but if thu
English language could afford them, it would
be his duty to use still stronger, for he had
knowledge of circumstances which would
show fraud, lies, and crimes, upon a scale
and depth Of wickedncSs that had hitherto
in the annals Of courts Of justice, been alto
gether uneXamplcd. He could not. however
but feel anxious, for his materials were sc
abundant that if there should be any fail
IRE he knew it must lie the worklnan's fault
He admitted that man Of noble blood might
become so debascd rs to be hardly recog,
nized, but still his baseness, such as would
, be shown in this case, must be set against the
f value Of his evidence. He must impress
upon the jury that it was much easier TO tel
; lie than to confute one This was his diff
|
upon this part Of the case, because he desired
to do it fully at once, so as to unnask this de
testable impostor in Il way that should require
no second doing. lie did not suggest that there
. was in this case any huge and monstrou;
, conspiracy; but simply that there was {
huge and monstrous imposture, into whicl
many persons of various positions, and mos
, of them innocently, and with Il desire to dt
right, had been drawn. The learned counse
then, having given sketch Of the position o
the Tichborne family at the time that these
circumstances arose, commented upon TIT
witnesses. Mr.. Baigent and Miss Brain hi
characterized az clever, and Boyle, who hae
great knowledge Of the famiy's affairs
There was also DR.. Lipscombe, who was Ger
;. tainly ready to recognize the plaintiff, for h
had placed himself in communication witt
him even before his arrival in this country
He hoped he did no wrong in characterizine
Carter us thorough scoundre, and one wht
had the power Of communicating great in
formation, such as would come within ser
wants range. This being the state of things
!. the ground was certainly well lait
for the reception, if not for the good, fol
the bad seed. Having made these prelmi
nary observations he would now stat
shortly the case which the plaintiff required
them to believe. The learned counsel thel
briefly ran over the main circumstances dc
posed to by the plaintiff, and said that thi
was what eleven gentlemcn-some mer
chants, some in the navy, some in the army
and some independent gentlemen, all of then
in the rank Of English gentry--were asked tt
believe. No doubt the statement in various
parts has been supported by the testimony o
many gentlemen against whom he should no
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to influences which would have deceived
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