The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-11
THE CLAIMANT IN PRISON.

English convicts are permitted to see their
friends once in six months, and by this rule
Lord Rivers, Mr. Orion or Lady Tichborne
and DR.. Kenealy, the Claimants celebrated
counsel, proceeded to Iillbank penitentiary,
at once perhaps the strongest and most terri
bly, gloomy of all the prisons of England. As
might have been expected, DR.. kenealy has
made the most of the interview to excite, if
not renew, sympathy for his very remark
able client.
They were shown, writes the lawyer, into q
room Of three compartments, in the farthest
of which was the Claimant, but separated
from his friends by middle compartment
formed of iron railing. The spectacle pre-
scented when he entered was pitiable in the ex-
IRENE. Dressed in the uniform suit of pepper
and salt, with blue stockings, with a rough
blue and white comforter round his neck, he
was the very opposite Of the Roger Doughty
| Tichborne who had sat so earnestly watching
his case as it unrolled in the court of queens
bench. He had been in the hospital on his
old complaint OF asthma but his face was a.
that of corpse hree days dead.
Last February he weighed twenty six stone,
or 3G4 pounds, since which he has lost 12e
pounds, a fac. which associates the man with
la ghostly presence, assisted as it is by the
further Disagreement of a cropped head and
a clipped beard. The hands, once SO white
and shapely, are wasted, and the nails, still
well kept, are blanched and bloodless. AS his
features waste, the doctor says, the likeness
of the young Roger Tichborne of the Chill
photograph becomes more apparent, while the
death-like ineaments resemble in the highest
degree the features of his mother as she lay in
death. He said to his wife, Mary, am glad
and am sorry to see you, and the voice was
that of a spirit, SO sad, SO hallow, so melan-
choly.
Lord Rivers was deeply affected, the poor
wife was fearfully distressed. and for few
moments the doctor was unable to speak.
During the interview the Claimant stood lean
ing heavily against the bars, as if the effort
was almost too hard to sustain. He inquired
anxiously after his children, but appeared
chiefly anxious no wonder-about the
writ of error. DR.. Kenealy gave him hope
that it would be granted and that the House
OF Lords would do him justice, and all said
whatever they could to cheer him, but he
looked like man from whom all hope had
departed, and was emily waiting to leave his
living sepulchre Ter the other grave.
This will give an idea of DR.. Kenealy's SEN
sational statement of his interview with his
client, ard although itmay perhaps be slightly
overdrawn, there cannot be any doubt that the
main features Of the interview, as we'll as his
graphic description of the man. are cor ectly
given. The fact of man of the Claimants
huge bulk falling off 1876 pounds, with his
bloodless face and hope-lost look, all framed
in the grotesquely ugly prison garb, requires
n thing more to photograph the man
before us as be stood. Despite all
hat has been proven and dis
proved, the extraordinary amount
If evidence for and against him, coupled with
he s!aunch adherence of Il s friends which
appears to follow him tenaci ,usly in his i'm
" sonment, the belief will occasionally creep
'ut that the man may be after all what he rep
esents himself to be, and that there is some
lorrible trickery which is keeping him from
lis own. If the story be true which we pub
lshed few days since, that the mate Jean
4rle was "plant" of the detectives, and II
an be so proved, then the case will assuredly
o to the country on a new trials Los9s
republican.