An Instance of Luck.

Manawatu Herald, 23 July 1895, Page 3

An Instance of Luck.

_ » . The People is publishing a full Confession of Arthur Orton, the Tichborne Claimant, and in one part an instance of the luck that turns up for bad men as well as good is given. In cross-examination Mr Coleridge asked Orton what schools he had attended in France and "I said that I had never been to a school in France." Cjloridge ■aid "What, -sir ; you never went to a school in France ?" I said " No." " Will you swear that ?" he said, » Yes '* I said. I said "No " because I had heard that I had nerer been sent to a school in Franco;" That was in his assumed perion as Roger Tichborne. "When the Bishop of Orleans was put into the witness box, he was asked if he at one time of his life kept a school in Paris, and hs Milled that he had. He was then BBKed if h* ..remembered a pupil attending &a sohopl by the.4ja.nißs? of Rogar Tii&feorjie, and he replied that he did; and that he had known Roger Tichborne since he was a boy. "Tlhe'n" said the counsel, he did intact attend your school ?"' »*«f- ■" was the answer." Well that made it -look " v,ery blue" for me (ftfe^^ confesses.) -Whert Ballaai|iflq^ to cross exauiiae hip< Grace|l§6 a ,isjftiid "'-• May I &sk : yopr Grace^SipWvlpng Roger Tifchbo.ine attendea 1 your" school?" He said '• Well, I'fib'd irpoh ex'ainination of the books th*tt; it was for six days." Then said/'Ballantiue "What age was " Rogev Tichborne when he attended yotir school ?" His Grace replied ■•♦ To the best of my recollection he would be between five and lis yeßftWo^ffige'/i Uporr this, Lord Justice Bovill asked Coleridge U he had brought' this witness aud five other priests to prove Roger Tichborne went to school in France for six days, and that was when he was between the age of five and six years. " Yes, my Lord " replied Coleridge. Whereupon Lord J ustice Boviil said " Well; all I can say is that if I had been sent to a school in France such a brief period, and at so tender, an age, I should indeed have forgotten all about the circumstance, and I do not wonder that the claimant has done so." Turning to Coleridge, Lord Justice Bevill said " Brother Coleridge, I think you are trying to prove the claimant's case for him." :