THE TICHBORNE CASE.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 187, 22 July 1873, Page 2

THE TICHBORNE CASE.

Tnß Tioh borne case re- opened on April 23 m a new form — — a trial "*t bar," m the Court of Queen* Beach. This indictment open* up the Orton case, and the case for tlio Crown is, not merely that the defendant is not Roger Tiehborne. but that lie is Arthur Orton. Mr Hawkma rose to open the case for the prosecution. At length, he said,. the time has arrived when the momentous issues involved in this case are to be determined — momentous not only to the defendant, who is charged with a crime as black and foul as Justice ever raised her sword to strike, and to thepublic, whose interest? alike demand the protection of the innocent and the punishment of the guilty. The case wasproceeded with from the above date to the 12th of May, on which date the life of the Claimant, as elicited from himself, in Chili aud Australia was then proceeded with. This included, perhaps, the most interesting portions of the cross-examination last year, and will be sufficiently within the recollection of our readers. It included the account of i landing from the Osprey in Melbourne, and his subsequent- 1 acquaintanceship with Arthur Orton. 7t detailed bistravelsfrcin Boisdale to Tamut, then to Dargle and Bruthen ; his settlement at Waggd Wagga, and his leaving there ior England. On May 14 — the sixteenth day of the trial — the reading of the evidence was several times interrupted by questions aa to the odTisability of evidence be;ng admitted.. This notwithstanding, fully one hundred pages were read through, and, should a like power of work be exhibited^ from day to day, this recapitulation of evidence will, in all probability, come to an end by the 20th of the month. The examination read on the 13th May referred entirely to the career of Arthur Orton, or, as the prosecution puts it, theClaimant. Towards the end of the day, the Claimant wni. questioned with respect to Wagga Wagga in connection with the name of Arthur Orton. He denied that he erer told Cater before he made his affidavit thai he was living at that place under any name except Tichborne, Castro, and, for a* •hort time, Morgan. When did you go aa Morgan ? — When I wa« at Yarra Yarra Station. How did you get that name ?• — It was the first that came. X can't tell my reason* Were you going under the name of Castro *% the time ?—? — Yes. What made you take Morgan and drop Castro ? — I. decline to answer the question. Why ? — Because it might have a tendency to criminate myself. The Chief Justice : Do you mean in the 6en»ethnt it would render you liable to a criminal prosecution ? — The Claimant : Yes, my lord. The Solicitor-General : Is it a separate matter from that f about which you rtfused to give an answer the other day ? MrSergeant Ballantme : You need not answer that. The Chief JiiHtice : The Solicitor-General has a right to put the most direct question He might ask, " Did you commit murder ?" The Solicitor-General (to the Clsnnanf) : Is tl.o crime an. answer respecting winch jou think %ould criminate you different, from that in respect of which jou claimed privilege )esterday? I decline to answer the question. The- 1 ! Chief Justice : Why?— Tlie Claimant: It might lead to. others, my lord. The Chief Justice: If you think it would lead to n chain which would criminate you.you are at liberty to decline. However, if, on the other hand, it led to innocent matters, your objection would not hold good. The SolicitorGeneral : I? the question in re^poot of which you decline to give an answer, on the ground that it would criminate you,.' the same a3 that on which you have already claimed privilege H — Yes, it is. The Chief Justice : Then what mads you decline to answer ? — The Claimant : Became I didn't rightly understand, my lord. <Fhe Hohcitor-General : We*. Arthur Orton accused of any enmo at any time? — He was. Of what? — Bushrangnig. What is bushranging?— I suppose you would call a bushranger a highwayman here. Was he accused of anything wors« than bushranging ?—? — Not to my knowledge. Was he accused of shooting anyone ?• —No. Nothing worse than highway robbery ?— No. L will give you notice beforehand. Don't answer hastily. Were you charged with the fame crime that Arthur Orton* was charged with? — I decline to answer that question^. The Chief Justice : On what • ground* ? — The Claimant : : Because I don't think it is a proper question to put, my lord. The Chief Justice : That depends on legal grounds You ar« bound to answer, unless it would criminate yourself, i The Solicitor-General : I rcpeajt my question. — I decline to answer on the ground that it would tend to criminate myself. W?re you accused at th« same time and conjointly with Arthur Orton? — I decline to answer that question. On the same gtbunH? — Yes. Yon told me that ArthurOrton was charged with horse-stealing ? — I was charged with him. I may as well say that we proved them to beour own horses, and we got discharged —In reply to farther questions on Urn matter, the Ohiuiinnl s.i.d that what he referred to occurred at Castlemnine in 1859, on the road from Melbourne to Bendigo, and that he and Arthur Orton; were charged together at the Castlemnine police Court, tho latter under his own name. The course of the examination then went back to the year 1851, and the Claimant* supposed movements at that period. He denied that he returned from Chili in ISsl,oii board a ship called the Jessie Miller, and that he was in Ireland in 1851 ; hs also denied:' that lie went to Mr George Orton's house, a butcher in,i Wupping, and acted as interpreter to him in his dealings with the captain* of Spanish chips. He never told a man named Beeson in Australia, whom he admitted having known there, that he waa cast away on the American* coast, and picked up and taken, care of by an old Spaniard who had a wife and two daughters. He did not, in 1851,. 'form an attachment for, and keep company with, a M:s3 Loder, and npver spoke to her in his life. He sa»t her at the door on the day of Ins " poor mother's funeral," Rouse , i he thought, pointing her out to him. In the instructions, from Arthur Orton to him he said, " Please send what information you can concerning Miss Loder." He (Arthur Orton) gave the names of people and their residences, and" asked him to mike out all lie couldi about them. The Claimant having been fliown five letters, including onepurporting to have been written by Arthur Orton from Wa»i,'» Wngga, another admitted to have been written by himself to Lady Tichborne, and one written indisputably bv .Roger Tichborno in 1852, was questioned as to whether the unting of Arthur Orton and his own were not the same. Ho protested against this coone,. saying that the other side had taken out these letters that* ere most similar^ and other* that were dissimilar, and that that wai not fair ;. adding that sometimes he did not write for seven or eight years, and that his hand would, naturally alter daring that time.

Some interesting researches have recently been made in the ruins of the buried citj of Pompeii. In tho porch of a small house two skeleton* wore found, one being incontestable that of a woman, as it had on n bracelet of massive gold of an* unusual form composed of thick rings aoldrredto each other, the whole being fastened by two pieooa of wirt of the «am© metal. The dnv after, in the garden of the same dwelling was discovered a small atntwe, seated, about two feet high, of a rather uncommon model. It is in terra-cotta, but of no definite type. The head, in fact, is absolutely that of Jupiter; the figure is covered with a tun 10,. ha/ring short sleeves, which only cover the upper part of t lie arm* ; the legs and hand* are cros-<ed ; a cloak falls, from ths shoulders and envelope* the lower limbs; the light Uand holds » papyrus, so that the belief i* it must be a philosopher. Two day* after, however,, a more ini]>ortant work of art \»as found at the bottom of another garden contiguous to the one above mentioned,, namely, | a marble Venus, measuring, with the bate, more than a yard in height It is in perfect preservation, as it only wants two fingers 011 the right hand* but tho most * remarkable characteristic is that it is coloured. Tho excavations of Pompeii and Ilerculuneum have produced many other spocnnens of painted aiaible, but tho tmtjj hare all,, more or lens, Aided away- In the present work the hair is v-'Uow, thfl ojpbrows black; the chalinys tthich, from the life arm p.isMii™ behind the shoulders, descends ou the legs and coven tUe lower parts,, is al«o tinted yellow outi.de,. whilst tho interior folds shows at the edges some traces of blue and red. The nude parts are white. The left arm, the lihtid of which holds the apple of Paris, rests upon a smaller italu<\ the drapery of which i* also tinted yellow, given, and black. Two oard-piayinp; friend* were passing through s pine forr«t, when one asked the other tins audacious conundrum : " Why cannot the proprietor of this forest fell 1 M owns, timber? — Because 110 one is allowed to cut when *i U hi own deal,"