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Excerpt from Charge of the Lord Chief Justice of England, in the Case of the Queen Against Thomas Castro, Otherwise Arthur Orton, Otherwise Sir Roger Tichborne, Vol. 2 of 2: Reprinted From the Official Copy Taken From the Shorthand Writer's Notes
Then there is Mrs. Church, who lived near the Orton family ever since her marriage in 1838. Arthur Orton went to school next door. Her little boy was a school-fellow and playmate, and she speaks of the nervous affection, but only as having heard of it; she never noticed it particularly. She never noticed any marks of small pox; never saw any earrings. She, too, Speaks of the family likeness. She heard the defendant speak at Cambridge Hall, and says that she recognized his voice at once. I own I have some little distrust of people, unless they were very intimate indeed, and had almost constant intercourse with a man, who come and say they recollect the voice after so many years. N o doubt there are voices which leave an im pression that you do not forget. If there are any circumstances when you have heard a person's voice on any particular occasion which are calculated to make it leave an impression on your memory, or if you are constantly in the habit Of hearing it, I quite agree that you can remember a person by the voice as well as in any other way. But if it is merely a casual acquaintance, which does not bring you into habitual intercourse with a person, then I think it is very suspicious when people say they can recollect the voice after a great many years. She is another witness who speaks to his having a peculiar walk, and being in-kneed.
Next there is William Alum, the barge-builder. He knew the family; he knew Arthur Orton as a boy, and knew him after his return from America. He says he was a very big, stout boy, half as heavy again as lads of his age. It was more in breadth than in height that the size showed itself. His voice was husky. He was called Fatty Orton, or Bullocky Orton. He cannot say he ever spoke to him. He only saw him about in the neighbourhood, and only heard him speak to some of his school-fellows. I cannot say that this is a witness whose evidence carries much weight with it.
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