3-065-727 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The End of the Tichborne Trial: waiting for the verdict, 1874. 'The enormously lengthy trial of Thomas Castro, alias Arthur Orton, the claimant of the Tichborne estates and title, for perjury committed by him in the action of ejectment he brought to obtain that property, was concluded in the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday last. This trial had been continued during 188 days' sittings of the Court...The result of the whole case is the conviction of the defendant on all the charges in the indictment for perjury, and his sentence to fourteen years' penal servitude - that is, to seven years' penal servitude for each of two different acts of perjury...There were loungers about the hall and a crowd watching that entrance to the court where the public have hitherto sought for admission...The crowd lingered about the precincts of the hall and courts for more than an hour, apparently in the belief that the prisoner was still in the building, but as the police were withdrawn the crowd gradually melted away...the prisoner was...finally lodged in Newgate...He now wears the prison dress, has the prison diet, and is employed in picking oakum'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.