Central Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1874, London, Middlesex JL. CENTRAL IP JEWESS 3.401. 13, 1874. Y a Newspaper for Newspaper Registered at the General Post Office as a THE TRIAL OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHTH The of the claimant to the Tichborne baronetcy and estates was resumed on The Lord Chief Justice continued his address to the jury by observing that the effect of the letter which the defendant sent to Mr. Danby Seymour was to induce that gentleman to go down to to see On his second visit to the defendant put himself in with Mr. and there were some passages in the letter he wrote that Dr. Kenealy had much relied The defendant You no think it strange that i did not call on you when i was last at i should have done so with pleasure had i not been under a promise from mama not to converse with i knew until i had seen i know now her and i am very glad i keeped my As this letter was written with the view of convincing Mr. Hopkins that the defendant was it was right to mention that it consisted of fourteen in the course of which there were sixteen small and several and mistakes of Hop kins took up the cause of the and brought about ah interview between him and Mr. Danby who was accompanied by formerly a servant of the Mr. Seymour said that if the defendant were Roger he would know who Burdon The defendant that is my uncle A more unfortunate shot could not possibly have been for Mr. Nangle was at that time seventy years of while Burdon was between thirty and The defendant had since asserted that what he really said was That is one of the but both Mr. Seymour and Burdon emphatically contradict Burdon handed the defendant an and inquired if he knew whose writing was on it. The defendant said he did whereupon Brudon don't you know your own fathers writing This convinced Mr. Seymour that the defendant was an but he promised to see the defendant again if he thought one interview was not Before they the defendant put on a which he said had belonged to him in the but Mr. Seymour stated thai it was much too small for the The defendant had altogether called into question the accuracy of Mr. Seymour's description of the and emphatically denied that he was unable to recognise Sir James It was for the jury to determine who had told the because it was certainly a startling thing to find a man unable to identify father's Alter that the wrote a letter to Lady in which he referred to the visit of It should be remarked that the date of bad never done ' the circumstance was not very considering the number of years that had elapsed sinoe Roger's departure from In that letter the defendant I have seen Henry but he had been so Cullington and Gosford that at first he would not recognise me. Hopkins very kindly had a long talk with and so did During his cross-examination in the Court of Common Pleas the defendant said the conversation did not last five the letter soon altered his Mr. Seymour told them that once formed had never The defendant declined to meet the various members of the Tichborne who determined in consequence to treat him Mr. Holmes sent a somewhat truculent letter to Sir P. but the state of his mind subsequently An appointment was mads with Sir Percival and his wife to meet the defendant at Sir Percival and Lady Radcliffe were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. and for a time the defendant addressed the latter for the former and vice If the were satisfied that the defendant made this could they believe him to be Roger Tichborne Could a mail after the lapse of twelve the features of the woman with whom he had long held familiar intercourse Was the mistake if at under circumstances which would enable the jury to say that the defendant had a fair opportunity to distinguish between the two Both Lady Radcliffe and Mrs. Townley wore but the evidence was that they were so thin that there could not be the slightest difficulty in tracing the features of the The Foreman said a marked difference between the voices of Lady Radcliffe and Mrs. The Lord Chief Justice said that that was a very important but one which had escaped When Sir Percival told him he had made a the defendant said he saw then which his and which Mrs. as the latter was That she Wed that the recognition was an act of the reasoning faculty not of Sir Percival asked the defendant to revert to circumstances which could only be known to himself and his and the reply used to pick flowers The answer was What took place is and will never come to as the defendant alleged at the last He declined to describe the manner in which he escaped from the on she plea that the lawyers had advised him not to enter upon the The defendant's assertion was that Sir Percival introduced Mrs. Townley as his own and that he did not discover the error for some lady was deeply If his lordship were of the he would not care to believe that he told Sir Percival that what had taken place between and Miss Doughty was and would never dome to What did they think of the man who had he had had relations with the and who was bound to protect her honour before all the using language to the husband which necessarily implied that he had improper relations with and was calculated to engender in the husband's mind a feeling which would entirely destroy his happiness He would not have referred to this had Dr. Kenealy not said that here and there they would find breaking out in the defendant's conduct indicative of the true It seemed to him that various incidents had happened in which the defendant's behaviour was utterly inconsistent with the character of a In Court of Common Pleas the defendant alleged that Sir Percival was rude towards Lady but in the Utter which he wrote on the day following the interview to Talbot although he said the meeting was not a pleasant he did not complain of anything Sir Percival had doue towards his This in common with nearly every written production of the contained mistakes which could not fail to create a so far as he was the smile would be kindly and and he would not refer to the errors at all Were it not for the important bearing they had upon the Although there were many mistakes of and in Roger's letters they were of a different kind to the The interview produced different effects upon the various in satisfied Townley that the defendant was an but both Sir Percival and Lady Radcliffe wished to see him again before they made up their at a later Sir Percival went to the defendant's residence his wife was to have accompanied but she missed the train and was left behind in Miss Nangle was and both she and Sir Percival then came to the conclusion from what occurred that the defendant was an It was a great pity that at any of those meetings stratagem had been resorted because it had given the defendant an opportunity to complain of having been unfairly treated by some members of the His lordship read at length the evidence of the various persons who attended the and compared it with the testimony of the Mr. Holmes afterwards wrote a letter to Sir P. condemning the treatment his client had but expressing the conviction that he would ultimately gain possession of the as the claim was founded on The defendant next wrote to Lady Tichborne a which might prove of the utmost importance in furnishing a clue as to the manner in he had obtained information relating to incidents in Roger's In it there occurred this I dear Jou have found some of the What letters could e meant Could he have referred to letters which Lady Tichborne had received from both when he was in Ireland and Did this passage account for the defendant's knowledge of various Was iris knowledge the result of or was it derived from perusal of those letters wrote to Lady Tichborne he constantly repeated the words My dear which Roger never had His lordship read several of the defendant's letters to dear and pointed out in them numerous which he said were only made by uneducated people of The defendant went down to and from thence to he made one of progresses he had been accustomed to make into all parts of the country where any Carabineers could be He there the co-operation and assistance of who participated in several subsequent transactions of a most important By this time ha had got into his service Carter and who were with Roger during a portion of the period he served in the Those men brought about interviews between the defendant and some old who had since been called as He told Lady Tichborne that his first visit to Sandhurst cost him Why did it cost him so He was only there two or three The thing could be understood if Carter and were empowered to meet the old Carabineers with the view of conciliating One of the most palpable proofs the defendant's ignorance was his spelling Seymour as He stated in the Court of Common Pleas that the name was spelt but having examined the original his lordship was obliged to say that the defendant was in Roger knew how to write the name of Seymour iust as well as his Dr. Kenealy tried to explain the matter by saying that a Somebody Seymore lived in the reign of Charles the First or Charles the Second and spelt his name the way the defendant had written it. But what had that to do with the present case The defendant now put himself in communication with Captain who had been in the troop with Roger in the and eventually a meeting was arranged The defendant did and it was now evident that acceptance of the invitation was altogether At length the period arrived for him to take the initiatory step in this His first step was to make an application in the Court of in doing which he tiled an affidavit stating that he was Roger Having done the opposite party gave him notice of their intention to cross-examine Now the question presented itself as to he had possessed up to this juncture to enable him independently of his own mind and memory to answer the questions which were put to If he were Roger the answer to the question was at once given but another view of the oase was that he was not Lady Tichborne would have assisted him in the belief that his wanderings would account for everything he had apparently Then there was who bad not been very scrupulous as to the manner in which he assisted the he had taken into his service just as unnecessarily as he had brought Bogle home from Don't let him be understood to say that those persons muted and the Proprietors by John at 112,
