DR. KENEALY.
The special correspondent of the Argus, who reports to that journal regarding the progress of the Tichborne trial, writes as follows respecting Dr. Kenealy : This gentleman, learned in the law, is a short, stout person, a little on the wrong side of middle age, with a round, ruddy face, and a large beard, slightly dashed with grey, which descends upon his breast. He wears gold spectacles; and on the fingers of his left hand displays two rings, which the junior counsel have irreverently nicknamed " knuckledusters" —huge hoops set with enormous amethysts, and believed to have been presents from wealthy criminals, who have employed the learned gentleman at some time, and who have taken this way of testifying their gratitude, and perhaps their astonishment, at being triumphantly acquitted. Vast and eccentric ornaments they are, but not altogether out of keeping with the mammoth proportions of this extraordinary trial; and when in the last flourishes of a complicated sentence this hand is waved at the jury, or in the direction of the representatives of the Crown, the effect is at once dazzling and menacing. Not that Dr. Kenealy, as a rule, is a violent speaker; the opening of his address was, it is true, somewhat loud and emphatic, insomuch that the Lord Chief Justice, at the coulusion of the first day, complimented the perspiring orator—a little equivocally, perhaps—upon his address as a " remarkable exhibition of physical and intellectual energy." But generally, the learned counsel's tones are provokingly uniform and level. From morn till eve, in fact, he maunders on in a voice which is not at all like a hidden brook in the leafy month of June, but which nevertheless invites to sleep. In brief, everything about the address aud the speaker gives an idea of plenty of time. As we listen, or occasionally don't listen, we seem to live again in those scriptural times when 900 or so was the average duration of life, and nobody, perhaps, grudged a dozen years in trying a patriarchal perjurer.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1527, 21 November 1873, Page 24
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337DR. KENEALY. Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1527, 21 November 1873, Page 24
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