The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-27
Defending Sir Roger
SPEECH OF DIR. KENEALY, THE TICHBoRNE CLAIMANTS
COUNSEL REMARKABLE Effort.
rLondon duly 81 Cor. New York wOrldI

COUNSEL REMARKABLE EFFORT.
TLondon duly 20 Cor. New York wordI
DR.. Kenealy began his opening speech Tor the
defense in the TichbOrne case yesterday, and he
had not spoken long, before he gave proof Of the
strange rumor which has been floating about the
clubs to the effect that he vas in desperate state
of mind, and cared for nothing but 10 cover his
own retreat from the case as best he might. 4
more extraordinary speech or 4 wilder one | never
heard nor read. enc counsel ever appeared in
any court instructed as 1 have been, = said he,
- and | believe that in consequence of the want
of instruction | shall not be able to do this man
Justice This sentence means, no doubt, that
the solicitors have given him no brief, and that
he has been working on the old one OF Baxter
Rose and Norton. Under the circumstances DR..
Kenealy might have thrown up the sponge and
retired. But he determined to show fght-and
strangely did he show it. The character Of the
defendant has been so clearly proved that DIR.
Kenealy is resolved to show that Roger TichbOrne
the well-educated, well-bred, h~igh-minded, and
delicate youth-was Just such n blackguard rs
the defendant, and that every one OF the 300
witnesses who have declared him to be an impostor
is either 4 knave or Il fool. Having taken this
resolution DR.. Kenealy did not mince matters,
but poured out 4 torrent of violent denunciation
which brought on him one sharp rebuke from the
bench. and was at times received with lronlcal
laughter by the jury. The forty or fifty wit
nesses in the case were denounced with especial
NlOltIiCt. Lie mlON 1lCllDOluC .lLuil y . lC cdliNs
were fools, and had been so for centuries, owing
the destruction of their minds to the fact that
being Catholics they were excluded from public
life and left g to those country amusements which
destroy the mind" " 1t is as Pope wrote, said
this wonderful lawyer, . that Catholics were
either fools, knaveS, or towards. There was Z
plot against the defendant, . like that Of the
Jesuit Rodin who c~onspired to defraud 4 family
of q million Of money - 50 these SeymOurs and
Tichbornes = had 9 defiled the grave of the de-
fendant's mother his early life had been SO
wretched that : he looked back upon it with
horror, disgust, and despair and so became an
outcast and a ruffan in Australia to forget it.
He was ignorant, because at StOnyhurst . he got
no mental training ''-(dozens of witnesses have
sworn that when Roger left Stonyhurst he was n
remarkably well educated youth, particularly
well trained in logic and theology the Jesuits
don't want mental training they want to make
the rising generation Il generation OF women;
they are like all the Catholics, however, and see
- what n cesspool Of corruption and ignorance
the Catholics have made of France" Roger was
so corrupted and debased at Stonyhurst that he
went and seduced his own cousin " he left Stony
hurst ga miserable example of ignorance, with
out any moral restraint, and with hardly any
respect for the truth '-(this same young man
who was beloved and respected by every one who
knew him, and whose letters ut this period dis
play not only the highest moral and religious
feeling but excellent sense and culture) he went
lnUO the army, winch also. LOT DG. henedly 3
purpose, is rather worse than StOnyhurst, and
there too he learned nothing but evil (although
one witness has stated that he was converted
from i~nfdelity to Catholicism by his conversations
on religion with Tichborne); he scorned his
family and hated his mother he had no love
for any one but himself this young man whose
last act In England was one of pure love and self
abnegation Gosford (the solicitor who had charge
of the sealed packet) is Il thief and has acted
with - ineffable baseness - when he came back
TO England all the family said "This is the heir,
let us kill him and seize on his inheritance :"
. the great but unseen influence of the Jesuits =
was all employed against him the crown had
been craftily induced by the Jesuits to prosecute
him at an expense thus far of Gl60,0OO; the
%clergymen who have testified against him are
80 those infamous priests, - that wicked old
priest and 90 liars.
Such was DR.. Kenealy's opening speech, or at
least as much of it as he got rid of yesterday.
Its very violence shows how desperate is his case
and its incoherence and contradictions betrayed
it's weakness. On the subject Of the alleged
seduction of Kate Doughty, DIR. kenealy gave IT
up, confessing that he could not produce n single
witness To substantiate even the probability of
the charge. This of itself is sufficient, one would
think but as DR.. Kenealy declares that he is
going to call 200 witnesses, it is evident that he
is resolved to fight to the end. and probably hopes
that some good Protestant on the jury will be so
frightened by what has been said about the
Jesuits that he will prevent a conviction,
Mr.. SuuvER-Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Wilson
rode over with his host 10 Nahant TO make a call
on Senator Sumner, who IS the guest OF the poet
LongfellOw. The friends OF Mr.. sumner would
hardly know him. He had much of his old natural
vigOr. His step is elastic. and he walks rs /! loco
motion were no longer 4 pain. On his way To
Lynn saw him in Printing House square. New
York. reading the signs and evidently looking
after some Of his old friends. He is . model OF
hard work. and manages in dog days and during
vacations to work nine hours "a lay lynn '"Tr.
Boston JOjGT0L
WASHINGTON. Aug. ia number Of letters
have been received here from QuaEers and other
friends of the Indian peace policy throughout the
country. asking executive Clemencv in behalf oi
the ModOc Indians. Many OF The letters raiSe 'ir
question that the trial of offenders vas Illegal
under a decree of the Supreme Court in the Mill
can case 10 the effect that in cases where civil
courts are near al hand. = military tribunal bad no
jurisdiction. Another question raised u that ten.
Candy was killed while acting As = Peace tommlS
sioner and not a. an officer OF The army in war.
These questions will come directly before th" Pre-
Ilent for his action
N,Ns,ra- DoouEn IN The Boston Fire
Underwriters Union has determined TO follow the
course lately taken by he board in this city. Al
lis meeting. Friday, Il was decided That after the
Isl OF January next. ih- rate Of Insurance on
wooden Mansard roofs should be raised from fifty
cents on 500 to one dollar on the same amount.
This. of course. includes not only the building. hut
the insurance on all the merchandise contained IN
it and it will thus be seen that II will be difficult
for the owner of such 4 warehouse to let II 20 any
merchants for ordinary business purposes. The
addition of an expense of one per cent. on ali the
goods coming into = store would often take away
any profit that Aa5ght other use cuur l,"n thr ale