Central Press (Newspaper) - January 17, 1874, London, Middlesex THE CENTRAL No. 3,378. JANUARY 17, 1874. PAGE 1 A for Registered at the General Post Office aa a being a THE TRIAL OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTIETH MR. HAWKINS'S The of the the baronetcy and estates was resumed on Friday Mr. continuing his general said there were but two or three more of the Australian witnesses to whose evidence it would be necessary for him to call The first of the number was it would be said that he went with his friend Arthur Orton on the Wallaby track other the the Bendigo road in the direction of in the last week of 1860. This was utterly inconsistent with the story of the who alleged that in June of the same year his Arthur Orton was actually at Next came George who asserted that in 1856, he saw both Orton and Castro in the service of Mr. at There was no doubt that Orton was at at this but that anybody named Castro was was utterly disproved by the books of Mrs. which no human being doubted were Jones said that he himself was in Foster's but he was Very much inclined to doubt as he knew so little of the establishment that he could not state with where the men were in the habit of taking their - Mr. a butcher in alleged that he saw Orton loafing about at Castlemaine with some other men in 1857. But it should be borne in mind that during the whole of that year the real Arthur Orton was in Foster's service either at or at least two hundred miles as the crow flies from Garner added that in 1863, he saw the same man at but that could not be the real Arthur as the defendant had himself stated that at that period his Arthur Orton had assumed the name of Alfred and was actually serving with him in Mr. shop at if the innkeeper of and Garner were speaking of the same they directly and flatly contradicted each other in their Dyke said that his Orton only came casually to the whereas Garner said he was thereat tending That was the whole of the testimony this point he intended to comment and it for the Jury to determine whether it was even worth tine consideration which had been given to it. In 1865, just a tew before he a He would not allude to fact of domestic servant with the view of casting a upon but as shewing the class of persons he selected Mb The then stated that he was thirty years of which was precisely the age of Arthur but eix years younger than Roger The defendant's explanation of this was that he stated everything that was false because tobe Did not wish to be But what clue would bis age have given to his he married by the Wesleyan instead of by the Roman Catholic whom Roger would have undoubtedly allowed to perform the The defendant said he did this because he was not friends with the Roman Catholic What He would next introduce the defendant to them in a totally different the character of the claimant to the baronetcy and He could not tell how the scheme was originally but it was obvious that it was in his mind in 1865, when he caused the schoolmaster at to write a letter to James of 72, the friend and neighbour of old George making theOrton The object of that was doubtless to ascertain what had become of his old friends and and the feeling of the survivors towards because it was of the utmost importance that he should clear course in prosecuting a great Who but Arthur Orton could have known the precise address of Mr. at There was not a particle of proof that Roger ever knew such a person as Mr. and the defendant's object in getting the schoolmaster to write the letter was clearly to avoid he being afraid that Mr. Richardson would have identified the handwriting as that of had he himself written it. The defendant's counsel said that this conduct was a piece of idle of which the jury ought not to take the slightest What could the learned gentleman have thought the jury were made of But the defendant made a totally different his version being that he was anxious to know where Arthur Orton Anxious to know where Arthur Orton was in the Court of Chancery he affirmed that at the very period the letter was Orton was actually in Higgins's service with him at Wagga After there was no evading the one big fact that in 1865, the de fendant desired to obtain information about the Orton Shortly after this letter was written the dant came in contact with Mr. the He had then publicly that ha was a B. of the a baronet of the British Mr. Gibbes was struck with his illiterate and mode Inquiries on the subject What did they the defendant's reply was It was no other than that St. Vitus's dance had prevented him from studying in his They knew that Arthur Orton had been afflicted with that but there was not the slightest suggestion that had ever been so. there was the remarkable In it the defendant appointed John Jarvis and Henry two of old Orton's most intimate friends and Arthur's earliest as executor of the will and guardian of his children As to the defendant's counsel was at variance with his The counsel said it was all folly and and that the names were put in at He accounted for it by saying what the defendant himself never dreamt the counsel said it perhaps nobody else dreamt of the broad canopy of heaven he and Orton had probably sat around the camp fire telling of What stories 1 The learned counsel regarded this as one of the minor points of the but the defendant had not done so and it was for the as men of common to say if they thought so The defendant had solemnly sworn that he deliberately inserted the names of Jarvis and Angel at the suggestion of Arthur who was near office at the time the will was being Could they believe such a cock and bull story In the defendant made a in which he affirmed that he left England in the Jessie Miller on the 28th 1852. The Jessie Miller that the very name of the vessel which took Arthur Orton from and the 28th November was the very day on which Orton went down the river in the ship That was Perhaps that also was concocted under the canopy of heaven around the camp The Lord Chief Justice said the argument of Dr. Kenealy was that Arthur Orton had so impressed the defendant with the main incidents in his life that he at length came to regard them as part of his own Mr. Hawkins continued to say that a which belonged to the defendant in had since been and in it the name and address of Mary Ann Loder were Before finally parting with Mr. Gibbes and his Australian the defendant said after his accession to his baronetcy and estates he intended to return and have the largest butchering establishment in The jury would have to consider whether this conduct was not more characteristic of Arthur Orton than of Roger In the middle of 1866 the defendant returned to England in the When off vessel took In a pilot named John of whom the defendant made inquiries respecting John who formerly was a pilot of the Dundee This of whom he in Orton's time kept a in and also acted as pilot of a of vessels which used to bring Shetland ponies for Thomas Orton up to the wharf at * Orton's Bait If they believed the evidence of what inference could be drawn other than that had been intimately connected Orton The learned counsel then to the defendant's visit to Wapping on the evening of his 1866. On the following day he went to see Mrs. one of Orton's but finding her from he left a which was said to have been written by Arthur Orton from but was now known to have been penned by the defendant after his visit to the where he was believed to be Arthur The only object defendant could have had in doing this was to make his friends believe that he might be like the real man was What reply Mrs. Parden made to this letter might perhaps never become hut certain it was that when she saw the communication she this is from Meanwhile he forwarded to her portraits of his and child as of Arthur Orton and his wife and but he informed her that if she wanted to communicate with him any further she most address to C. On being asked why he did he said he did not want to be bothered any more by If the defendant had come to England for the purpose of the Orton family would he have said he did not want to be bothered even before he had seen any of Somehow or both sisters and Charles latter of whom the defendant did not want to see scent of what was and the defendant found that they could only be bribed into by In the the Bisters made an affidavit in the defendant's but not before they had been plentifully with All the correspondence between them ad been So all the correspondence with Charles Orton had with the exception of one Certain it that after a tune Charles Orton left his shop at Wapping and set up an establishment at the name of He was in the habit of being supplied with per but vf hen the defendant left England for the purpose of attending the Chilian he forgot make arrangements for continuing this whereupon Charles Orton at once turned around and made an affidavit declaring that the his Counsel had endeavoured to explain the defendant's liberality towards Charles Orton and the Orton sisters by declaring that Arthur had acquired an irresistible influence over him in and that unless he had taken care of the Arthur would have exposed his conduct in the New That was absurd Did Arthur also tell to goto Wapping to inquire for the the and old and to afterwards palm himself off as W. H. a Fenian reporter It was perhaps for the sake of that the defendant had made blunders in carrying out the for it was those blunders which had enabled the prosecution to lay the whole scheme Somewhat the defendant said in a letter that he found he was asserted to be Arthur native of He denied that he had ever been to and denied also any knowledge of the two Orton and Published for the by John at 112,
