, 1874-02-28
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THE TRIAL OF THE TICHBORNE
CLAIMANT.
(Continued)
THB SECOND DAYS SUMMING-UP.

OLA1NnAN1 i.
tContinued)
THB SECOND DAYS sUMMING-UP.
The Lord Chief Justice continued his ad-
dress yesterday morning by calling attention
to the five important epochs in the history of
Roger Ticbborne-his life in Paris from his
birth to his seventeenth year, his career at
Stonyhurst, his preparation for military duties,
his three years service in the armv-frst in
Ireland and then in Canterbury and, finally,
bis career, as far as known, from his leaving
the army, at the beginning of the year 1858,
down to the loss of the Bella in April, 1854,
by which he was so long supposed to have
persisted. The first two of these periods hav-
ing already been disposed of, his Lordship pro-
ceeded to read and comment upon the cores
pondence relating to the period Immediately
after Rogers leaving the College. The let
ters, he remarked, showed that he was not idle,
as bad been alleged, nor yet given up exclu-
sively to the reading Of Paul de KOk's novels.
During the course of the day his lordship
illustrated this by citing q number of passages
showing that be was reading and in some cases
with a critical appreciation Chateaubriand's
E" 1tin6raire de Jerusalem" Moli6re's Comedies,
and other works. The learned Judge then re-
ferred to several incidents of Rogers visit to
Bath, with regard to which the defendant was
questioned. 1t was during this period (1S4S-9)
that he spent eight months at Tichborne, and
then took lessons in fortiicatiOn from the Rev.
Mr.. Moberly, of OwSlesbury, a village near
by, of which person and locality Roger spoke
in o letter quoted, and the Lord Chief Justice
pointed out that it would be necessary for the
jury to consider how far the defendants fail
ure to r~eoollect these facts was important.
Similar remarks were applied to his inability
to say who Lord Fitzroy Somerset was the
correspondence showing that Roger had been
introduced to that distinguished officer, then
Commander-in-Chie at the Horse Guards, and
had subsequently taken "the bold step" of
writing himself to his lordship on the subject of
his expected commission. The attention of
the jury was then directed to the circumstances
of Rogers going to Sandhurst in the company
of Colonel George Greenwood, and of his mil
itary examination there, the papers of which
showed that the young man had passed in all
the subjects embraced by the examination except
in arithmetic-his lordship observing that "on
looking at the sum-" it appeared probable
that it was rather the young mans foreign
fashion of working out the calculation than his
absolute ignorance which had "puzzeled' his
questioner.
The remark that the jury would observe
from the correspondence with how much
tenderness, affection, and respect" Roger Itch
borne was by this time regarded by all his rela-
tons, at once brought his lordship to the rO-
nance of the case-those first germs of that
affection for his cousin which he observed
''could be traced even down to the very last
of his letters Lady Doughty'S feelings to-
wards her nephew we're, he remarked, of a
conflicting kind. "In a worldly point of view
the union was all that she could desire, and it
is plain Continued his l~ordship) that she both
admired and esteemed her nephew. More than
that, she loved him with a most sincere and
almost motherIy affection" But on the other
hand the young people were first cousins, a
c%loseness of relationship which, in the eyes of
sincere Catholics, is regarded as an objection
peculiarly grave. She knew that Roger read
French novels-in fact, "bad books" and it had
been viii spered in her ears that he was not Ga
paragon of virtue, He was probably, remark
ed his l~ordship, not worse than many other
young men; but she was a lady who would be