Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-07
THE DOUGHTY SIR ROGER
T~ichborne's Fallstamsn Claimant ON the
Restrain.

Tichborne's Fallstamsn Claimant ON the
Restrain.
SIR Roger Tichborne. the celebrated
claimant" who ia now out Of prison on a
ticket of leave, delivered the first OF his
proposed lectures in this country at the
Windsor Theater, New York. One hun.
dred and forty men, twelve ladies and a
small boy listened to him at IS cents q
head.
Sir. Rodger was introduced by Mr.. de
| Morgan, who charged that the English Gov
| eminent had packed the Tichborne jury
and bribed the jurors. Sir Roger, who
is a very fat man with u generous stomach,
| bowed and smiled as pleasantly as he could
| when he saw the smallness OF the house
That be was affected by the mea Der attend.
ance, he showed by saying at the close Of
! his address: II will frankly admit that ]
funds in order to enable me to reopen the
case; but, judging from the attendance to.
night, I am afraid I shall have to return to
England as soon as possible"
Sir Roger has q contemptuods disregard
for the letter H, a feeling his friend Mr.. de
| Morgan shares. Sir Roger also insists upon
saying git and ''sich," peculiarities OF
pronunciation he acquired when he was in
Australia and thought to be dead. lie
talked for over an hour, beginning at his
beginning in France, when he came isto the
world as the heir apparent OF the Itch
borne millions.
Il was 13 or IA years years old. he said,
"when my father called me from France to
b educated in England The he told
the ~well.known story OF the shipwreck oil
the ship Bella" ard his subsequent thir-
teen years life in Australia. Returning to
England he found his mother was in France.
II Immediately made up my mind to 60 to
her, but an initiate friend Of mine in Aus
tralia had asked me to unit up is family
and see 'ow they were gettin' along. Iwent
to the address, but found a sign TO Let
on the door. l inquired at Q 'ouse near by,
and was told by the lady that the people
'ad moved away. but 'er daughter 'ad the
address, as she was 10 correspondence with
them. She went over to 'er daughters,
that is the way I came to 60 to Wrapping,
and the detectives said that If l was not
Arthur orion, I never would ave been in
SIGH y 'urry to 60 to Wrapping"
Sir Roger then spoke about his celebrated
trials, 'trials,' he said, (which cost mil
lions of money and ruined many OF my
friends. The trial in the Court of Common
Pleas cost 1855 a day" and lasted for thir-
teen months. In the whole OF England
only eleven jurors could be found to try
my case. On the trial 385 witnesses were
sworn in my behalf, 272 of them that l
was Roger Charles Tichborne and 113 that
l was not Arthur Orion. These witnesses
were most of them tenants OF the Itch
about. After my release from prison after
serving ten years and seven months, these
gentlemen threw open their mansions and
welcomed me as if l were not a ticket OF
leave man. After the trial of the case
before the Court OF Common Pleas !
was thrown into Neweate by order Of
the Judge. On my trial for perjury Sir
John Coleridge, now Chief Justice OF
England, employed the most emf
nsnt counsel in England to assist him. He
'ad said that he would break down my
testimony with a very few minutes CROSS
examination, yet l was asked 1880
questions, and the case took ten months
on trial. Dr.. Kinealy was the only IA of
legal prominence whom l could get to de-
fend me, and no man was ever truer or
more faithful to his client. I believe the
trial killed him. But if l 'ad 'ad all the
LAWYERS in England l could not ave won, as
facts more lately revealed prove that the
Treasury 'ad determined apon my o
viction. The trial cost f576~, 9OO-nearly
three millions of dollars"
The lecturer insisted that he now has
evidence to show that Inspector Clark and
other 5conland Yard detectives, who had
since committed crimes, were granted i'm
munity because they had been useful to
the ~govesnment in robbing him of his
rightful property. He promised to have
the case r%e-opened.