MR BRIGHT ON THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 3929, 28 September 1875, Page 3

MR BRIGHT ON THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

In reply to a HictTHd if.rrmipomknt- who had written to Mr Bright asking him to support Mr W bailey in its end- arm a to obtain a free pardon, or protection. for a man in New Zealand who ciahna to 1c Arthur Orton, the ri :j ht lion, gentleman Las sent the following letter : “ 132 Piccadilly, Lon lon, July In.—Sir— You may roly upon it that Arthur Ortmi will not come Lorn Nov. - Z aland, 'During < the trials U.bOO was oik red for him, and nobody emu ! produce Mm. It was a. large bribe, and I only wm.drr it did not bring over a score of * it,ns. Arthur f'rton is in Dartmoor, end nobody, I suspect, knows this belter thr.ri .-ome of those who are pretending to cxwcl him from Mew Zealand. L have r ad • : c\ hb.rrm r.ad all the speeches ot bo. hj tri. r end thy summing up of the Lo. d t Jus'-i-.v. ’i hi., last l!n--have read, ag.-dn duri las... month, and 1 ha\ en a.i nr rc il au i non the cvmciue before the v'hili Comnus.b.n I know, therefor •. as much about the matte y<»u can l.nm,-, and much more than is known by nine mb. of ten < f those who arc claim li: g for the nb.-se o" the 'convict at Dmtmoor. 1 have before me

now the bandwriting of the real Roger Tichborne, of tl-e real Arthur Orton, and of tin convict, and this alone is suilicicnt to convince any man. cf common sense and observation what is the truth in the case, [v you could sec this handwriting, and if you eoul I examine the • vim nee of the Chili Commis.don, the evidence of the convict's own friends, to wlmm hn ich rred for proof teat he was v.duc he piotcndul to bo, you could hardly fail to bo convinced that your belief in the convict is u r.itu; and your sympathy with him wholly mi;; 1 .cod. 1 mention these two points as co-mliuivo aardimt him. There are many ether points in the evidence on the two trials wlm hj are fatal to his claims. He seemed to Know the uamtr of two dogs, but lie did noko> ;• the came of hia own mother. iv( y 'burvibe, in .--.ustraUa, asks inm a leso question whether hia mother was stout or Urn. iic said. ‘Stout tall, largo woman’ it is not denied that Lady Tichborne was kauums itself. I'd iss .Nagle .said idle was more like a skeleton than anything else, and this was not contradicted by anyone. If 3-011 can believe in a man ■who did not I now hi* own mother’s name, and who stated that his mother, who is admitted to have been U-.uuks3 itself, was ‘stout’—a tub, large woman, when lie Hr.t came to Australia, and vdion he had no opportunity of picking tq> infm-im-dion and facts to suppo r hia case, i f. ar 3-011 arc of that credulous nature that it may be useless to reason with 30.1. 1 cm. tike no pau in 1 the proceedings of Mr invl cy and hia j friends. To me the convict in IJarlnr or is ' the greatest criminal of our lime, liis c.imo has extended over my ;>•«,>!•«. It ii mi fit base in elnr.clm-, ;cl Includes in it almost cveiy crime for which.’, il m n are brought to punk-! mm t You are much i;n- [ i.u’oss-.d, I liar.; cay, those W-.o i averse :.he cmui ry cro .t’nc I agitation un ties quest m.>. 1 must a.s‘: to bo pcmmul. d to v.duo n;y mvn judgment at k;im rn ; igV • a;> that of tho-.o [’.Ci v.'l'itr- 0;‘ t.H :Vi it* (I h.lW* 5 invested money Liv-1 , in Iho case, anil pe u ilary in: rest u ium favwablc to an im- ? pattial decision; .••nod.vr .‘alibi's from | disease which I call ‘J, and: mi the hrair,’ { and this seems griem. iu;lv be di.-.f -it almost | everything ho looks a' ; am* f-.e Hind is the lawyer who failed, .after a t.i d < f 103 days. -o convince three judg -a -it,.! 1 ■>•••*!vc juiy ■ men, or ar.y one of If. 1 bob; n or of the jurymen, time Ids choc v.rf. any thing but an imp-.sturo ami a n an moit unions from his character nud i i - crimes. 1 shall he glad if you and such as bed vc v, j _. V .PI m.d ask me to correspond fin Ik. : on a question about which only honcid nv n v, no arc in entire ignoi mice of the fa du ova in tuyiicw, diflcr in opinion.- I am, re pecidu’.L yours, .loiin' PnitniT.” " ’