THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1167, 25 April 1872, Page 2

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

CONTINUED. : :-"ii;. On resuming h|s, speech on Monday, the 29 th Jap^ary^^Tohn Coleridge proceeded to'^largg^ig^n the history of they Chili Commu&ibn^h&blaitnaat's shrink)-^ from going ,\yith it, an^ the; if^iseho; involved, as -well as the pretext bflph^^^ cal /inability. ;T,he reabtruth, he zaa&lm waa that claimant, did ,not know Brazil and Rio, and' he merely pretended to go ■ to'ChUi,' orerknd, ftpm'Rib^Bo as to gain some ; knowledge! of 'the eas.t aide of the South American' continent, never intending; really tpjgoiriglrf onto Chili. He especially avoided, seeing M. Jules Perron and Captain. Oates, the last persons . : who>Bav?,Roger Tichbbrne before he went oil board theßella.. The Attorney :General .suggested . that.;theje .-might, -be some reason I why "the,' plaintW 'did hot like to leave England, and it was this— He had 1% previously, paid .various Bums, under the : cloak of -'and disguise 'to' th.c Oitons. and itwpuldhave been dangerous to go away and leave, their demands uneatisfied, mor^especially as it did not that, his advisers, know, any thing 'of his connection wifh them; . Afterwards, when the weekly allowance to Charles Orton. vwas. discontinued,,' he< (Charles Orton), went to the defendant's solicitor, ■:• and; stated 'that -the^claimant was his brothel There- was 7 something, said the Attorney-General^ inVthe Ortbri business which he could- not unravel, and a good deal iupon-.i that .beadiremained yet nnex- \ „ plained, relations between the»plahir ' titf and 'his^egai advisers formed the subject, of some severe . ( ctiticiBm,, : and the At-torriey-Generai. made' copious quotations .fromvariou^lette^and.referred'at.soiue "length ; tp Mr ■^olmeB y 8 i ,\vi ) thdrawal from the claimant's case. He remarked that when M? Holmejs threw ; up the plaintifPs case because he would not support a frau'dulent'claimy it must Ke -borrie i in : inind % > that the- plaintiff owed him 3soo©,' no'iifc one penny of whiclrhe would' r ever get unless the- plaintiff obtained a verdict of the jury.., • . . . . . ;^ii:i.?§-HB TJQHBOKNE]'.. . :. On Tuesday the AttbrQ^y-General pi^ceeded- Jt to s nbtic'd ; tKg alleged resemblance ■ of the claimant to Roger Tichbornjß, and said they all. knew -that there waa often passing likeness between two persons who had n0 ... connection with • one another, except by means'bf 'Adam. . They also kpe \y .that one of two men was sometimes mistaken for the otiier aparti yet when the. .two. were together;?they who had been mistaken was surprised . at the absence of likeness^-; The-' history of bur courts was full of cases of/ deception ir which the depeption had been practised, upbii. many persotis of sound 'sense' and gppd understanding. /The learned., gentleman t. then referred to the tiibde in which .the claimant had been identified, whiph was the reverse of the iUsual: process, .whioh was to pick out a person from a number of others, whereas .here ...the- persons to identify were preparedV-a. person was pickedout forihem.i and presented to them alone; », Besides, few of the witnesses to identification had -heard Pftd' seen the 'cross-examination 1 : bf N claimant ? 'before «they gave' their'eviderice,' while the i : whole of those who" would be calledTforthe defendants had had that' advantage^ and were more 1 , confirmed; in their, disbelief. ;Amopg those who could state thu. Wpuld ;MMV^^snry and Mr.r Alfred Seynjour, Mrs' Radcliffe and Lady Doughty, i The physical .condition of(;the claimant, and the marks on his person, which the jury had seen,, were next<ad verted to,, and Sir : John' Coleridge said'^that- he' ; should be -.abl.e.to,prove that the.plaintiff. was nearly an inch taller than Roger Ticbborne, and that the difference in'the ears of the claimant and those of Roger was so essential that they- could' not be x the same person. I He also;.4welt at some 1 length oh the; alleged peculiarity of .the thumb on the claimant's left hand, and asserted that this thumb had . been " manipulated " " manufaptured," and " concocted" for the purpose of producing a resemblance to ihe bauds of Roger Tichborne as they ap-•-!pearediri photographs;- ; -. ' ! ; ■ ROGER TIOHBORNE'S MAKKsi -"On-WednesdjQr- the-^ttotney-:G^|ieral a Q°& on. accident _wmch occurred to the eyelid of the-real R6ger Tichborne 'bii 'the; voy^gfe trom Havre to Valparaiso in the Pauline/ He was skinning -an -albatross, when a fishhook which was suspended from a beam went^hh^eyelid, and in operation had to be 1 performe'd:i6 get it out. In March, 1567, the claimant was eSamineid by Dr. ,Ijipscombe, and at ; thai* ~sno£ hot never liiade the slightest reference to this ac-

oident. It was clear he did not do so simply because he knew noth'nj about it. It was incredible that if he was the real Roger Tichborne he should not have made some allusion to this accident in 1867, considering the great importance that had since been attached to the affair. The claimant had since given different yersions as to how the accident happened ; and the confusion into which he had got with respect to it was perfectly, inexplicable, assuming that he was the real Rdger Tichborne. The fact was that this s jory of the mark on the eyelid had been fabricated, and< was, utterly inconsistent with the troth. The same might be said of the claimant's account of tho marks on his ankles. The. doctors who had examined these marts wduld not swear that they might not have been of very recent infliction, and the suggestion of the defence was that they never were inflicted --until -after M'Cann^htfd dntwn' attention to the fact that the real Roger Tichborne had been bled in the ankles, and would, therefore, haVe v inarks there. Two eminent medical men would be called who would state thai it was all rubbish to say that the scars on the claimant were such as would be left after bleeding in the ankles. As to the arms, it was not pretended for one moment that the claimant had any marks upon them, yet it would be shown conclusively that the real

Eoger Tichborne was' bled over andlover again in the arms, and if alive must have marks up to this day to show the fact. The claimant said- he had a seton o l the shoulder when he was sixteen ye rs of age, at Stonyhurst. l!he real Roger Schborne, however, ' never Tiad a. seton « t all, though, he had a sore on his.shouldei not, •when ho was at Stonyhurst, but wh alfe. was at home, and only nine year ;old. The claimant had made as big a-1 ash of thtSßeton and sore business ash .had done of the albatross and fishhooki The claimant had shown a scar on his cad, produced, as he alleged, by an ace dent while in Brittany. No doubt the real Eager Tichborne when a boy had fall from some rocks while staying in Brittany, but M. Ohatillori, his tutor, t ould be called to prove that the scar 0 1 the head of Roger Tiohborne caused bj this' accident was in quite a- different pla c $> that on the head of the claimant. (The claimant had the marks of a'sbUnd ilngliah vaccination on his right arm, <urn on his left arm there 'was a curious park which he said was the result of bad Fijench vaccination. Roger Tichborne had teen vaccinated in France, and doctors would be called to prove that the mark o$ the claimant's left, arm had not, in their opinion, been caused by vaccination at all, and as to the right arm, tha. marks., there were undoubtedly the result J>f an English and not a foreign vaccination. t Evidence wou}d be called from Chili and Australia to show that Arthur Ortoi\ had upon his left arm the letters " A. -0.," and to have left these letters untouched would have been fatal to the. claimant's case. The doctors would say that the - mark on the left arm of the claimant' * was just such as would-be produced by attempting to obliterate the letters A. O. :f Roger Tichborne. waa. tattooed. Jargely, yet the claimant had no tattoo marks upon him. If this fact alone could bo proved beyond doubt,' it must be fatal to the claimant. ; ' Continuing his observations respecting '•■the tattooing of Roger Tichborne, 5 the Attorney- General ou' Thursday said; that - the real Roger had been -tattooed beyond all question; dn, two different occasions, and when last seen alive had thetattoo" . . maxks , upon Ivis body. ; Lord- Bellow, who had tattooed Roger TicKboAe/and nine, or ten other , wquld be cailod, and place the fact beyond all question^ - Some remarkable, evidence [had been given on the claimant's side respect- . ing this tattooing by Dr. 'Lipscombe, who in January, 1867, wrote a letter to Mr Bowker, in which He* said that he Tiad examined the claimant,, an,d found the initials^ R. C. T l . tattooed upon ws arm, and that ho remembered that the real I 'Roger Tichborne had told him many ..'years before .that he. had been tattooed , while at school. But the fact' : was that the. .claimant had no tattoo marks upon his body, but there was. a scar. upon his arm jrhich might have been caused by 'burning a tattoo mark ont, and the sugv^gdstion of the defence Was that the initials. ".; which had been, tb,ere. were. no&R,O.T*{ but A.0., acd ifthat were so the] reason' why they were hot there h^w was oTmous; Dr. liipßcombe, wheniie ascertained the rear state of the case, tried to explain away the statement he had previously made,, but. it was ° plain thatho made not only reckless. and wilful statements, but , wad guilty of an .absolute, falsehood. The evidenoe which would be given by- Lord, Bellow and the other witnesses* on the ' subject of the tattooing was this : Lord. Bellow one day while' at StonyHu^rst tat- ' tooed Roger Tichborne,' placing upon his arm the initials "R..C. T.," with a small device above the letters. At this time Lord ' Bellow saw numerous other tattoo marks, upon Roger. Tichborne. .He had the emblems of the three virtues, Faith, Hope,, and Charity, Faith was'represented by a cross, Hope, by an anchor, and by a heart % These f j?ere, placed one above tJje other, forming part of a united design/ TheVe was no pretence for saying that the claimant had*u atom of these marks upon his arm.. lit fact, he had himself distinctly sworn he was never iat o/edin his life, and,, unless the 'jriry believe that the witnesses who* were going to prove these facts were about to perjure themselves, there must be an end of this case, just as if Roger Tichborne had had a wooden [leg or only one arm, while the claimant had two legs and -two' arms. , ,;:-.. (To be continued.) ':"'-