THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 586, 11 July 1873, Page 3

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

The tiial’of the Tichborne Claimant, on charges for forgery, and for perjury, commenced on Wednesday, in thoj'X'ourt of Court of Queen’s Bauch, before the Lord Chief Justice Cookburn, Mr. Justice Mcllor, and Sir. Justice Lush. j. There arc two counts in the indictment, which is for par- ! jury only, and relate to the evidence which j ho gave in the civil trial and in Clio afhda--1 vita made in the Chancery suit with which he initiated his claim. The other indict- | incut is for forgery, which the counsel for j the Crown will sock to prove by means of I the signature E. C. D. Tichbourne, attached I to the Tichbourne bonds. It is well known j that a difficulty lias arisen about the order i in which those indictments are to bo taken. Naturally, and in the ordinary 'course, the indictments for forgery, which ia a Colony, would bo taken before th it for perjury. Such, too, is the order in which prisoner desired to have the’charges taken ; [but the counsel for the Crown have thought proper to change the order, and to try in the lirot place theindictmeuts forporjury. The issues in all arc practically the same, and wo do not imagine that the prisoner will bo seriously prejudiced by the course pursued, which may even turn out advantageously for the Claimant. But, so far as the jury ia concerned, the difference in effect in more material. In a trial for felony, the jury may bo locked up every night until the trial terminates ; and, as the Lord Chief Justice observed, it might happen that the unfortunate jury might he locked up for three months. It will bo tho business of the proseui'ion to prove that the Claimant is not E. C. h>. Tichborns ; and, in order to substantiate their position they must show who he ia. Those are indications of the line of attack which Serjeant Pony will take. In the Old Bailey Calendar the prisoner is entered as “forty-two years old.” The niissh g baronet’s age would Lo now fortyf j ir. Forty-two is the ago at which Arthur Orton would now have arrived ; and this circumstance is one of several which serve to ind’eate that counsel for the prosecution will endeavor to prove that the Claimant is the wandering Wappiug butcher. ' At the opening of the case, the learned counsel laid before the jury a narrative of the principal events in linger Tiolihorne’s life, down to the time he left for South America. At a further date it ia said that the trial continues to cucito the utmost interest.