The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-03-29
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thes ws an,. tSr she,ri to reply to stm'iu
ch,roe IL made against their own 'r', a hce,,
,b;s easr. Antagonistic witnesses i hsN,or;Joe
/ much more fairly dealt with -
' Alt!ioucs Sergeant Bahntync c, s tnn trial
.cy y, the abrupt termination W ~ VA" Tewgnte
st; ~ W." ", "niv landed, his client Ill nems,,a
Mnic'' n" wv Ticbbornc Hall, but mas 10 SUN,
nh,'e'a VI his own character .ulu |.'",
eStrh', n,i,sonros--it is very freely clreuM.,u
OF ms ''n ionscd n uor-suit because ITO .'oi
that hc .as forthcoming or to be nolea ioi
money Wv W." 'idc me was defending: Tiiere was
from ~, NJ, Monday of the caimants Doho.
a I'i and abcttors Mt his Jerlnyl-o.iu.'
noiu ,i ond Il is singular fact that they were
, I," mot having heard OF the ]ury's inter
's,t;on) confident. The TichDorlie oohas'
,rbich early Inst week had been rs 10" as -.
W. mI' rose on saturday to above e.. W nat
" ',.,, the source of this sudden confidence
, M"r IN not: but with il the claimants friends
'.mue together on Monday, when they were
,hmnder,stricken by the claimant himself en-
,nr;ur and announcing the interference OF
the i,Iry. One of them suggested then tna'
BalI,utyne was not doing his beSt, nut III
WAS ebukcd by the claimant, WHO, however
hn,ed that if more money were rai>eo soilie.
thiur might vet be done. But every pocke!
m.,s scaled every mouth dumb. 1T Is no!
'nr,ain. Of course, that if more money had
hern Forthcoming Baliantyne e0lhd nave
done more. The probabilities are tllat tne
extent to which his own reputation was III
ynlyed would have caused him TO 40 MS Ut
most. a.. s., ,osorS
of course little pity is ever felt Tor losers
under such circumstances. ohe ht,''o'. ~,
and three DAYS Of tremendous WORK VIII
hardly he looked upon by the lawyers WI"
iayc failed as representing green OASIS III
EG.'s nilorinmcc, and the SuprlirrS OF none!
20 the claimant will have TO rochet he',!
losses. But the loss to the Iicfbornc estate
il very serious. \ hundred thousand i'o's'u,
is ,hc general estimate OF the cost tiiS ho'
very wealthy family vii! have to bear, ana 10
His loss there must be added the TACT 'il". 1t
viii he long before certain blot cast on the
rscutchcon of the family will be wiped out.
7 PETER to the case OF the lazy OF WHOM
so much has been said. Although Inc Attor-
ney-G General, in defending her, cVillceo I'LL
honest emotion, having even paused lew
moments to recover his voice, and Ill !oHSii
the Chief Justice was so careful 70 sC''e Ms
imrlicit hcIief Of the evidence of the lady III
| uuastion. It is no secret that in making the
charge against her the CLAIMANT OIL! lil't't,
public a scandal previously existing. lie cue.
| not invent the story of the scd'ictioh, Det
| cot it from others rs he got so man! othel
| items about the man he was lmpersonatlng
Hence the story does not die so easily. me
lady 50 involved Is at present Ill, ana the
family are said to feel very deeply the cruei
blow, which, it is universally felt, the real
Sir Roger would not have dealt to the Wo
man he once loved under any conccNablf
circumstances. so it has rccoiled on his OWL
head, not. however, leaving his opponents
unscathcd.
It is but commonplace TO remark that Thu
his been the most remarkable OF all cases II
history. The claimant has been sustained II
his suit by ciShty-fiy witnesses. His ldentlt.
his itril sworn to by the .aronetS motiicr:
hy one baronet, by the family solicitor, by Sin
magistrates, bv thirty-ninc military officers
by four clcrgymcn, by seven tenants on the
estate. hy sixteen servants of the Tichborrt
family, and by twelve general witnesses
His claim has been denied hy but seventeen
witnesses. That case should have cot
larscd under such circumstances is certainly
most singular. 1t had two heavy burdens
uudcr which it must have broken down
even if the tattoo evidence had not beer
advanced. One of these was the lmpoSsl
bic ignorance Of the plaintiff upon severa
points concerning which the real Roger could
not have been ignorant: for instance, III:
ignorance Of the contents Of the sealed packet
and will which Roger Ticibomc left with his
solicitor GoSiord when he went abroad, OF
his Ignorance about StourylnuSt, where he
was N school. Another burden Wits the nit
of Baigcnt. whose letter, advising The rEslln
ant to - stick to- Il Story after he knew Il
was false, showed that his general tcstlmon!
was that of dishonest man; and tho
! strength Of the case was really btli
up by Baigcnt. who was aStollnded tt
see it topple down under one sentence
from a letter which he must think Satal
alone. or else the infants guardian angel
could alone have put into the Attorney
Generals hand. The founaation-Stonc q
the curiously large fabric which the claim.
ant managed to raise up was, of course, Tx
recognition Of him by his mother. That
brought him the popular sympathy, for peo'
ole said surely mother cannot be- deceived
about her son; but that basis even WAS TN.
dcrmned hy one of the claimants own
friends, Moore, who, in Il letter never III
tended to sec the light, wrote to Australia,
that il they would send over IN Egyplia;
mummy labelled Roger Tichhornc the Dow
accr would recognize it It's her son. This
showed that the old lady was Il mcnomauiac
about her lost son.
So the tremendous impoSture-the sensa.
tional romance issued scrially from her MAJ
je>ty's prcsSat cstminster--has ended. The
claimant. il is said, no sooner entered New.
cate than he asked if he was to be allowed
his usual complement Of brandy, and an easy
going doctor was found to certify that he was
in need Of that stimHlant; but what is to be
done Tor the poor public which has got used
TO lis daily stimulant Of Tichiorne? Some
of the papers perceive that in London the
claimant has rendered it impossible for maj
to live on Parliament and the Alabama cast
alone.