, 1873-07-11
THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

THE TICHB0RNE TRIAL.
Indy Radcliffe and mr.. Gosford in
tho WltMeE1.ESOx.
London tJuno 2o) corrsspondencs Of tho N.w Fork
EoriH.
Tho intorost folt IN tho Tichborno trial, after
languishing for some weeks, has suddenly rc-
vivod and yesterday, tho forty fourth day Of tho
trial, 1t bocamo intense aud almost painful.
During the two previous dnys the Courtlad boen
occupied with tho testimony Of 11r. Gostord, tho
nun who know Rogor Tchborno most perfectly,
his Intimate counselor md confidential agent,
his attorney to whom he gayo the famous
either Mr. Gosford is tho most wicked OF liara
and rcrjurors, and . Liar mud porjuror agni,lHt
thing. But Of Mr. Gosford shall speak again,
for first lot mo speak of tho Bcono to-day, when
Lady Radcliffe tho skate Doughty" whom
Roger Hcllborno loved With the pure passion Of
swore ho Ind degraded, appeared in tho witnoaa-
box, and, In vo!co whoso every tonc carried
Irresistible conviction with IL, told hor simple
and pathetic story. You will remember tllt on
tho former trial, tho dofondant,"' tlon "tho
complainant" swore that, before leaving Eng
lanl in 1868, ho had glyon to Afr. Gosford IN
sealed packet" which contained the following
worda:
II It bo true thst my cousin Kate Doughty should
provo to be ence!nte you are to make Ill necessary
arrangements for her going to Scotland, and you
return Or ao lnarrlea You aTo 10 show great kind
ness to her. and let her havo ything so requires
her. 1u the eyent II my co,sin's death You aro to
tako charge of the estates my behalf to keep tho
Il. @. T1cHponNE.
Mud it must be kept in mind that When pressed
to sny what this meant he swore that ho ha1 Be-
ducod his cousin in July or August, 1852, that
the seduction took plaee ono day when they Ind
Of the crime Was o mill near the village. Now
Mr. GoBford in hiB Testimony gavo tho whole
story Of tho scaled packet, - md his testimony
was sufficient OF itaolf to convict " tho dofond-
ford, and you will SEQ in tho first p]aco that
while tho defendant aays tho paper was written
In November, 1852, Gosford Baya It was written
in December, 1861. But this is the 1east of the
discrepancies. N1r. Gosford said:
whcro about Tie 18th Of October and naked ms to meet
him at Bath. ue came down to Tlchborno on Christ
mns Eve, 1851. was staying in the house ut that mc
10 Ito e7tremo telisht hs lad Ia audine Miss Dough-
fore. During tho whole Of TINT six months hc had nd
tho foa tint ono other might llavo superseded liIn
with mo. In long conversation had with him lo
contemplated the great difficulty with regard to Lady
wroto TINT paper that has been mich talked ahout.
think lie was induced to do this by recollection Of
what Sir Edward Doughty had done In somewhat
when his aon was i'll that II tho child recovered ho
would build church at Poole. Tho child did recover,
To u o At reborn
IIe was quite at home there We had bean talkinKa
long while TIM fro about bis cousin aud ho wus
very depressed remember lis jumping up, and he
sa "Ihats what I'll do" nu,l ho went to tic double
teaR. He wroto pnler, md threw II ncross to mo,
lm from from it, Int he said, No; IN DO tta IL ] foiei
IL m envelope an:l aea1ed with 1.ss own Heal aud
dentia" lie gayo It TO 1no to keep, and 1t lay In my
/ desk for years afterwards. 1Io never gave mo nny
other document In his life.
| Q;-Do you remember tho terms Of It A.-per-
fectly we'll afterwards destroyed IT, It marked,
Memorandufn-P -Priynte and confidential" inside NJ
we'll It went on, j" II marry my cousin within twu
Tor three ain not quito sure whicl) years Of t!lis
date promise to build church at Tichbor1e to the
Blessed Virgin" little lower down ho wrote ~
also intend to rebuild tho house at Ichborne." That
| was IN old idea Of his.
py the Jnry-Ia name was signed. lie put It for
maIly, Signed, II. G. Tchb0rut." Thnt wns signed
y h!tn1S ana tho seal remained unbroten till de-
And N1r. losford added that this was tho only
| document that Roger Tichborne over loft with
clarea that not only was thoro not in this docu-
| ment any nllusion to the seduction or pregnancy
Of Mias Doughty, but Tint he, who know Roger
Tichborno bottor than almost any other living
person, was aa certain that u tho defeudant d
was not Roger Tichborpo us he was Of his own
existence. It should bo added that ho supported
this declaration with perfectly overwhelming
mass Of proof 40 that 1T any other country thau
England, think, tho prosecution would haye
boon content to roHt their casc on his evidence
alone. And. indeed, the Judges and the jury,
nlter they had heard ATr, Gosford, showed BY
many plain signa that their minds wero made up,
and that 1t would DO work Of Bupererogation to
| examine another Witness.
But horo in England lawyer thinks that he
must examine oil tho wisnosgoa marked on his
hriof, regardless OF timo and oxpeuHo, and 80
Lady Radcliffe was cnlled to swear that tho g. do
fendant." who had declared TINT nho was ouuo
hs mistress. was not the higl-born and chiyal-
! roua Roger Tichborno whom she hnd loved i'll
maidon purity. Lady Radcliffe ID now 80 ycars
old. sho is still handsome, She is tho vito of
Sir Poreival Radcliffe, Of Cayerswall Castle, and
Doughty. sllo was thus tho cousin Of Roger
Tichborne, and her fathor's objections to tho
intormarriago OF cousins, on roligiou8 grounds,
WAS tho roal cauae Of Rogers departure from
England, and Of all tho Subsequent calalnitioH
TINT followed Tint event. should say horo-
what would haVo boon better eaid before-that
| the defendants "a knowledge Of tho fact that Roger
Tiehborno loft q scaled paokot with Goaford,
seems to have beon dorirol from an incantions
statement mado by GoBiord aeon aftor tho de-
fendant mado bis appearance i'll England.
Seldom las there boon moro pathetic Bcone
than that III tho court yesterday, whom this lady
told tho story Of her first romance and her first
love. 6ho ii now the happy wife Of uob!o gen
tleman and tic motbor oSf Lis children. Ho
etood by her side while she related to tho gray
hairod Judges aud the attentive jurymon the sad
and simple story Of hcr grlish affection and llor
naiaen love; 80 that she might ylndicate hor
fair famo from the Htain that tho man who pro-
tonda TO DO llor cousin and to havo boon her
lover had Gust upon It, and fancy that no ono
who heard hor had tho slightest doubt Of Aor
truthfulnoas. It Ia all up with tho defendant,
should say; and, although 1t il impossible to
predict what mny yet happen in tho course Of
this extraordinary trinl, it Booms equally impoH-
aiblo that he Gun oscapo conviction.
t PriHon-d4iSo tr Prussia.
a writor in tho Pal 1fau Gazette gives an &C.
count Ut tho zollcngefangaiHs, or ooll-prisou, in
tho suburbs Of Berlin, a gloomy, caBtellated