The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-13

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'sIR ROGER THE CONVICT.
The claimant looked as unconcerned as ever.
.'He stands 1t like a gentleman" SAID bystander.
"May be allowed to say a few words ~ This re-:
quest was denied. The Lord Chief Justice SAID
SIMPLY ana authoritatiyeiy no" ThSn tne de
who babe him 'gOOdby.n He smiled gloomily as
they parted, and gave himself up quietly to the
care OF MIR. frayng, the tipstaf.
THE REMOVAL OF THE PRISONER
to Newgate was effected very secretly, while the
big crowd awaited with Impotence outside to
greet him, but were disappointed.
THK LORD CHIEF JUSTICE,
after the disappearance OF the claimant, addressed
lew words o. thanks to the jury. and then the
got up from the one hundred and eighty-eighth
sitting OF the trial, never to meet all again.
ANer the verdict had been uttered the news
spread with immense rapidly among the crowds
about the DOORS Is COURT People
were 30 pregnant with the news that they COM
munlcated II grat9tously to every person VINO ap.
peared to be still ignorant Of the fact. "Fourteen
years." What an internal shame !" Ought to
have been twenty-0ne" "Of course he is Arthur
Orton!" ''Some day Arthur Orton himself viii APP
pear and prove that the Chief Justice was knave
and fooli' 'Mind what you are saying, old
man t'dectives are aboutW "Oh, now That the
frio 10 nvn ira. md
wish somebody would tilt the Judges carriage over
into the Thamesl" These and thousand other
remarks were banded about. Fortunately the
crowd bore an air OF great responsibility. Being
about one, the workingmen had not time to appear
on the scene and 1t was an opinion entertained by
most men on the ground that, had the trial lasted
till the usual hour, when the rougher portion OF
the claimants sympathizers usually assemble to
snow their adherence to Kenealy and their disgust
OF Hawkins and the Lord Chief Justice, There would
have been trouble. or course the crowd thought
that the Chief Justice was at the bottom OF this
piece OF treacaery in disappointing the mob OF Its
The crowd was perhaps 10000 strong, but
lures. 1t was "down'' on the detectives and evil
IDENTITY knew them all by sight, for sometimes an
unlucky individual when civilians dress did not
well suit, was severely chaGed by a butcher or
baker telling his neiphbors that the man was "a
spy, and had his beat on Noting HIM."
tertained no verv high opinion OF the Lord
Chief Justices wisdom and impartiality. One in
dlvldual SAID tnat never had there been Such
wrongful decision since the days OF the infamous
Jeffreys So the crowd talked and vented Its
wrath or Joy, while the authorities quietly took
''Slr ROger'' (who was of
TO PRISON THROUGH BACK DOOR.
It was great disappointment to them ALL They
wanted to cheer him and to cry out, Bravo, Sir
Roger !" just as worKmen had shouted In the morn.
Ing as the claimant reached the portals OF Vest
minister Hall. They wanted to see him In the prison
van and compare his looks with those OF this morn
ing as he drove down to court uncOnvlcted and
with q laint hope that be might be declared the
true 'Sir Roger, the heir Of TlchDOrne."