June 10 Tuesday – Sam and Samuel C. Thompson attended the Tichborne trial. Arthur Orton, a cockney butcher was on trial for perjury. Orton claimed to be Roger Charles Tichborne, heir to the Tichborne estate [MTNJ 1: 527n2]. This sort of case was Sam’s meat and he recollected this case in Following the Equator (Ch. 15) and also in Paine’s edition of the Autobiography. In the evening the Clemens entourage dined at George Routledge’s [MTNJ 1: 527].

In the Supreme Court of New York, Simon Sterne, counsel for Samuel L. Clemens, argued that the temporary injunction granted Sam on May 19 against Benjamin J. Such, should be made permanent. The injunction was made permanent on June 12 [N.Y. Times, June 12, 1873 p2]. Note: Sam also claimed the use of his nom de plume as trademark.