THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 198, 16 August 1873, Page 2

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL.

TJKK llth JTuae wag enlirejy occupied with the exammat^^H ©f .the military witnesses. Colonel Bickerstaft", who was u^^^H ejJU#d, was *djutant of the Carabineers when Roger join^^M mi ■told % most &uusuig stpry to the effect that the col >^^H h»d <.tkeK tVe 4po»t fettle thin, knock-kneed creature for t^^H *<)*• IfeeJksk t?<wk. Tlw .mistake vw, under the circum^^ic^^H act *Jtfc«f'*iSi.l s aud the tact is important., as the defcndn^^H #*.tow««fiW»TWt*winiatio* w Con* -non Fleft-i, hud no recolt^^H fci'W (if «, ABubtioi* ponjt an Colonel BiokeraUtTu e\ utoil^^H ; *'a* ihr. Ai4k;ifltjr Roger hid iv talking English He wuu^^f •»»,?,, *W Nistitnce, t« u l&^y, " IJ.ive jou profited ot the fi^^H tun .(to make & proiveu&de:" and although he knew I^^H drift well enough in theory, yet, as a matter of fact, ti^^f Bjoivient b.» iound himself on Ins charger, hid ignorance English stood in his way, and his tactics, like Kob'Acre^^H courage, seemed to ooze out at hit fingers' ends. In tl^^H cros«-«\amiMation of this witness ocourred a most live^^J passage. Colonel Bieksrstaff was present wlieu llo^er w,<^H bled at Canteibury, and a* both arms were attempted uit^H the lancet, the alurt sleeves were of course turned up. " J^H Mr Hawkins," said Dr Keuealev, "did not ask you t'^H question, I will. Did you see any tattoo-marks J " Tli^H witness aji3were<3 pron.ptly, " Yes, I did." To Colont^H BicktHuUtf succeeded tk'tK'i'.il Jones, who was thirty -scve^H year* in the Carabineer*, mid had known Koger perfectlj^H G-en*«U Jones is a plain, blunt old officer, given to express^M mg his opinion very outspokenly ; and it »oom* that he h l t^H long before the trial m t lie Common Pleas c&um on, spokei^H Ins i»mdof the then claimant so frankly a»io drawdown "R£^| hmiM-lf a letter of angry remonstrance, 4o which turned no answer. Th#fc t!w dofend.vnt was notTlogp^H Tichborne ho was "most certain," and he was equally cct^J tain that he hiroself had never buen addressed by an olc^J brother officer, who had said to him, " I am afraid \ou don'^H remember me, QeuerU Jones j 1 was with you in the Cari^B bineers ;" and that he hud never replied to any sucli ques^B tion, taking the questiojier for the then claimant, " Yoi^H are a d-> — >-d impostor, air, and were never in the urm\ >>^| y, our life." Colonel Betty and Major Bott, who followed ■ were both brother officers ot llogerTioh borne, and were butlj^H positive that the defendant wu» not lie ; indeed, Major when asked " Is he, the defendants, Roger Tichborne," au-H swered promptly, " I'll tai» my oath he u-n't " Colouefl Betty's evidence went to show that he (Cobnel Betty^aaH peifeetly clear that th« defendant won not Kc^er Tiehboi*ne,H and also that be (tlie wituess) hud ne\er \fn ot Cahir.l This last poiut is of miporUnea, as the deteudji^t has statetW that he had., when at Cubic, *et a booby tr*p for Col Bcttyfl with a pail of cold water. Major Bott, who came afteM Colonel Betty, was m all respects a Tory import mt witncssß His eridence is chiefly remarkable, ■» hen taken id connection I with the fact that the claimant did not remember, upon his I cro ? s-exammation in Common Pleni, anything of a very I singular circumstance that had occurred between Roger and I Major Bott, or of another very singular incident, in which I Cji|itain Turner, Major Bott, and Roger had all three tnken I part. It seems that on one occasion, at Clonmel, Major- I Bott had gone up into Tichborne'a room, aad ironically I begged him to play a solo on the Freaeh horn. TichWno I refused ; and, finding Bott troublesome, went down ™ ai corporal and a file of thjg guard to put him under arrpst. I Bent on this mission, and full af fury, he met Captain Pol- I hill Tumor, who promptly put him under arrest himself. A I circumstaico suoh &s this, U u argued, Roger Tichborno I could never have forgotten ; neither could he have forgotten that he and Major Bott, and a certain Captain Hawkes, had I impersonated the " Bounding Bnoks of Babylon," the point of which performance was thai, Ilawkes got on the shoulders of Bott, and Tichborne an the shouldere of Hawkes; and thp result of which was that all three collapsed with a crash, and Hawkes, being a choleric man, fastenod on to " Tich," and nearly throttled him- Like his predecessor, Colonel Belty, Major Bott was rery severely crois-examined as t/> whether the two had not in company visited the defendant at Croydon, and set a trap for him by adopting each tho name of the other. This was, however, indignantly denied; and throughout the whole of his cross-examination the Major fought with a keenness that argued no small natural abiiitj for nui prius. Had Mr Holmes called him (witness) ,. a spy 9 No ; certainly not. Dfor Mr McEvoy ? No ; certainly not in the presence of him (the witness). (Tliu rerr emphatically). Had he seen the tattoo marks ? Ni^ he hadn't. But he was perfectly certain aj matter of hearsn\ and common reputation, that they were there. Had he ever talked about them '— O dear, jes. A thousand times, but not alwa^ to Mr Booker. Did he it-collect whut he had s.ud * — Yes, hn did; but it depended very much upon which of the thousand time 1 * it was to which DrKennealy's question had reference. When he took Mr Holmes for the defendant, and said to bun, " How are you,'iichborne ?" he believed at the time that the delendant was an impostor. .None the less he eaid "How aie you, - Tichborne "?" He didn't think it -n ould have l»een mor^ natural to have said, "How are you, sir ?v? v but coui^ quite understand that Dr Kenfaly would have said No doubt Dr Keuealy would not have said, " How do >'«^H do, Tichborne?" But then, you see, Kenealy wouM pro^ bably be ifiore particul.vi thnn witness. After Major Boite came Captain Polhill Timnr, who also had been a brothel officer of lioger Tichborne's, and t« wh,Qm the defeudant "wrote as " Dear Polhill," to appoint an intei\iew, writing at the same time to his dear mania, *'J told you I shouldn't go to Bedford "—Captain Tnrner'a abode — " and lam not going " Naturally this had not prepossessed the Captain in " Tich'B " favor, ami, "when reminded th<"it the defendant had stated in his cros* examination in Common Pleas that he (Captain. Turner) had clubbed his men against the barrack -yard wall, ami bad been unable to give the word of command to draw them out, and that he (the defendant) had given the word, and had drawn them out, the witness unhesitatingly asserted that the whole story was a pure invention— a gratuitous he, and explained that, if anything of the ftort had happened, he (the witness) voultl moat certainly have been reported ami reprimanded. &r^ fore Captain Turner's evidence in chivf wa» concluded the Court arose. June 12. — Captain Polhill Turner, Mhose examination began on the previous day, again entered the box, and his. examination in chief was continued. He said that at the Law Institution the defendant gave him no look of recognition, and evideatly did not know buy. He then formed an opinion that he was not Koger Tichborne. The defendant a^'ieed to dine with him, but he never came. Mr Spofforth wrote, asking if he would appoint » time to see the defendant, and say whether he was his former comrade or not ; and he replied by letter that he had already made up Ins mind that be was not. At the la»t trial lie heard the whole of the defendant's cross-examination about the army, and he had himself the honour of suggesting the questions that were put to him— questions which JJoger could have readily answered. He beard his nnsw ers aud the tone of his voice. I* he Koger Tichborne? — No ; certainly not. Cross-examined ■ He dined with Roger, and sometimes pl.iyed with him at ecarte, and he thought he wns a very clo ? e observer j but he never noticed thqt he had a peculiarity of the thumb like tuedefendunt. There was no foundation for the statement of the defendant that at an inspection by a general oluVcr he (witness) forgot the word of command. With regard to the defendant's description of Waterford,. the witnuss said he only recollected one large bridge over the river Suir. #«fc Re-exiimined : The bridge was a very long and remai .ablebridge made of wood. The Lord Chief Justice : I see that at the last trial thedefendant was at first ignorant of a river at Waterford, and said the town was on the ieaj but some days afterwards heJomembered a bridge 1 . Dr Keneah wished tho witness) to be nsl?ed whether Twmore Bay was within seven miles of Waterford, and also whether largo ships did not come up to Waterford. The Lord <- hief Justice : But large ships come up ta London. (Laughter.) Rc-exanunation continued : I asked the defendant ns he was leaving the court at the last trial if he knew me, and he said he did not, but some one whispered over his shouldes, and thru Ijo said, "Yes, Polhill." I linve come to tile conclusion that the defendant ib not Koger Tichborne ; who he is of course I don't know. (Laughter.) Several other military witnesses weie examined, who unani- [ mously deposed to the defendant being an impostor.

PoiSONI>G BY Cor,OJlB» Soc'K3. — The British Medical Journal report* Hint nt tbe monthly meeting of the Bombay Medical and Physical Society , held Februarj 1, 1873, tbe particulars of a case of poisoning by colored sucks wns read,. In this case, Dr Cutes mentioned that he was applied to by an officer in respect of an obstinate eczematons eruption on the legs. On inquiry, Dr Gates louncl that the officer in question had lately taken to wearing socks of a bright red color, which he (the ofßcer) lmd recened from England in, 1869. Suipeoting the nature of the case, Dr Cates recommended simple treatment and the dmne of the socks A cure was sion eifeeted, and the socks m question were sent |to Messrs Kemp imd Co, oi Bombay, ior analysis. The socks were referred by Messrs Kemp to Mr i- arris, FCS., who reported that he readily obtained Irom the coloring matter of tin 1 socks a "distinct crap of octoherlral crystals of arsenious acid." Dr Cutes further mentioned thut thero were no coni>titutio»al symptoms present, the alleetion being entireh confined to the eruption on the legs and a chain of ycsieles following the course oi the absorbents on the inside of one oi the thighs In the discussion which followed, J)r Mills look pnrt, reading the notes of a ca?e of very similar character which had oome under his treatment in Febiuary k 1870 Tlio dye m this case, however, wns believed to be coralline, and therefore presumably non-ny >enical We read in the John Hull that "a well-known medical man, having a very pretty place in Buckinghamshire, heard from a Windsor auctioneer that a Mr and Mrs Campbell desired tolotk over his place, with a Mew of purchasing it. The worthy mrdecin showed the visitors the house, when, behold! on the departure of Mr and Mrs Campbell, he was surprised to find u lady with them leading the room backwards, and his daughters soon told him that he had been in treaty with the Marquis o 'Lome and the Princess Louiie.' 1 [Wonderful ! j