The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-17
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Ing, resume OF this most extraordinary
case, copied from the New York Herald.
It is certainly case without parallel,
whether we consider the time and money
expended in its trial, or the audacity of
the pretended baronet-a case in which
the costs, first aud last. were measured
by hundreds of thousands of dollars. and
length of tho examination OF a single
witness and the speeches of single coun-
sci were measured by weeks. may we'll
be set down among the causes celebres of
the world:
The abrupt and extraordinary terni-
nation OF the famous Tichborne cnse
Will not surprise our readers, ns tho
dispatches received from the Herald
correspondent in London, day or two
since, announcing that the jury had cx-
pressed themselves satisfied with the
evidence 30 far ns 1t had progressed and
ready to declare verdict, indicated that
the claimant's case had virtually broken
down. Upon this declaration, the court
adjourned until yesterday morning, to
enable the Tichborne claimant aud his
counsel to agree upon line of action.
Their conclusion was announced yester-
day, the counsel for the claimant saying
that their client had resolved to with
draw his claim. The Attorney General,
who represented the defendants. imme
dlately made nn application to The court
for an order to arrest the claimant, upon
the charge of perjury, aud to hold him
In bail In the sum Of G50.000. The
order was granted, and the .'baront"
and assumed heir to one of the Oldest
and proudest names in the English ba
ronetcy was arrested, yesterday, and
locked up IN Newgate prison.
81 ends, for the present, one of tho
most extraordinary trials in the history
OF English jurisprudence. We give
elsewhere summary of the case, the in
terest of which will transcend that of
any romance A young mnn, an heir to
IN ancient title and a great fortune, but
OF an idle, purposeless, vagrant nature,
drlited into the army as young gentle
men OF his stamp generally do, and
served in Ireland aud England for a
short time. WearSing OF military disci-
pine, aud yielding to the gypsy in-
stlncts of his nature, aud having had a
quarrel or an enstrangement with his
father on the subject Of money, he sold
his commission and left England for
Australia. When lost heard FROM, he
had shipped on brig in South Anleri-
rica, bound for Melbourne. The brig
went down at sen, and all on board
were supposed to have perished. The
circumstances of tho young buronet's
death cameto England. An advertise
ment Was published, calling upon the
world to divulge some tidings of the
wanderer, whether he be dead or living.
No answer came. The baronetcy and
the large estate passed to the next in
kin. The mother Of the wayward youth
mourned for him with all the patience
and hope of maternal love, and would
not believe him dead. Long after tho
courts had decided the case, and the
new heir bud come into possession, and
the world had regarded her son as dead,
she clung to the faith that he would
come again. The father, who had mar
rled late in life, died in 1862 ut an ad-
vAnced age. while the mother survived
until 1868. Upon tho fathers death.
the baronetcy passed to his son. the
younger brother Of the wanderer. who
died III 1866. leaving his title aud estates
to an infant son, who was born after his
denth. and is now the her presumptiyc.
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
Ii ls twenty-second in the order of prece-
dence, and WAS created by james I, when
ho founded the title. Sir Roger was the
eleventh in lineal descent; but long be.
fore the pedantic aud grnsping Stuart
was led by his ambition aud his wants to
establish the order, the name nf Itch
borne was among the honored names of
England. It goes back to the timo of
the Snxons, when De Itcbenborne. as it
was called in tho old Norman French.
was famous family in the County of
i1ants. We find Tint Sir Roger de Itch
borne WAS Knight of uenry II: this
Henry boing only third in descent from
tho Conqueror, who reigDcd rs King of
England and Duke of Normandy and
AquItaine, the first of the Plantagenets.
memorable III ecclesiastical history as
the antagonist IF A'Beckett, at whose
tomb he prayed while the edited monks
Inflicted well-oarned pennnce. This
takes us buck 700 years We find another
Knight, Sir John, ns "a person of great
elninenco, Parliament man, sheriff and
Justice .itinprunt n thn ro;r,, ~ IT,