THE TICHBORNE CASE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 190, 12 August 1871, Page 3

THE TICHBORNE CASE

This case was continued on the 15th of June, the cross-examination partaking pretty much of the same character as that of the previous four or five days. The claimant refuses over and over again to swear to anything he could not recollect. The most important piece of evidence was given quite early io the day, and was to the following effect. After 1 the Solicitor-General had asked several gentlemen to stand up, he asked, " Upon your solemn oath, in the presence of the gentlemen do you assert yourself to be Roger Charles Tichborue ? " 'To which question the claimant replied, "Upon my solemn oath to God I do." The " Anglo - Australian " in the

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European Mail says : — "The Tichborne case, which is dragging its slow leDgth along, promises to la9t a long time yet. The £100 bonds issued by him some time ago to raise money for his law expenses have, I am informed, been offered at the clubs for £1. A little time ago they fetched £40. Sergeant Ballantine, his chief counsel, must be making a pleasant thing out of the suit, as it is reported that he refused a lakh of rupees (£10,000) to defend Ameer Khan, in India, in the Wahabee case, as it would have prevented him taking up the cause of the claimant to the Tichborne estates. The contents of the returns of the commissioners scut out in connection with the suit to New South Wales and Victoria alone occupy 232 large closely-printed pages. What a harvest for the lawyers ! "