3-034-785 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Tichborne Trial resumed: arrival of the claimant, 1871. View of '...the scene outside the Westminster Sessions House, when the claimant arrived at the door, and followed his counsel and attorneys into the building, amidst the cheers, some cordial and some ironical, of the assembled spectators...[for] the extraordinary trial before Lord Chief Justice Bovill and a special jury, to determine the identity of the person calling himself Sir Roger Tichborne, and claiming the Tichborne estates in Hampshire... the claimant looked very well in health, notwithstanding the bad accounts of his condition that were given at the time of the adjournment, which took place on July 7, the case having begun to be tried on May 10, and having occupied forty days of the sitting Court. But he had then been under personal examination and cross-examination twenty-seven days, which was enough to make a man ill. There is no expectation of bringing the trial to an end before Christmas, and it may, perhaps, go on till Easter...The Attorney-General fairly gives us notice of what he intends to contribute to the length of these proceedings, when all the plaintiff's witnesses shall have been examined. "My speech," says Sir John Coleridge, "will be endless".' From "Illustrated London News", 1871.