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The Tichborne Trial: Mr. Hawkins addressing the jury, 1874. 'The trial for perjury of the person who has claimed the name, title, and estates of Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne is at length drawing near its end; yesterday was the 165th day, and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C. was still at his reply, on behalf of the prosecution, having begun on Thursday week...Mr. Hawkins proceeded to argue from a long chain of proofs that the defendant was Arthur Orton, the butcher's son, of Wapping. The evidence of the Wapping witnesses called by the defendant was severely criticised, and much stress was laid on the non-appearance of Orton's sisters, who ought to have declared that the defendant was not their brother. The defendant was called upon, if he were not himself Arthur Orton, to show what had become of that person, whom he said he knew, and to prove where he was now living, or else that he was dead. Mr. Hawkins censured the conduct of several of the defendant's partisans, male and female, and finally demanded his conviction for the crime of which he is accused...The Engraving on our front page represents Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., in the attitude of speaking, as he has appeared in court during the progress of the Tichborne perjury case'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.