The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-05-16 00:00:00

TBE TICEIBORNE CLAIM.

The long pending c,,ie of Tiehboroe v. Lushington,
Involving a claim to the title and estates of the Tie).
borne baronetcy, has at length come before the Court
of Common Pleas. On Wednesday only three jaiymen
out of the twenty-two summoned answered to their
names, and the heas:ng was deferred until Thursday,
when nine gentlemen answered to the4r names. Two
others haying been procured, and the counsel on either
aide agreeing to proceed with a juryman short, the
case was proceeded with. Refer:ins to the non-
appearanee of the persons summoned on the jury. the
Lord Chief Juatiee said that he should enforce a line
of £l.O on those, who hal not attended on the first day,
£'2o for the second day, and If neoessary would doable
the fine day by day until it reached i:SOJ.
The counsel engaged in the ulna cc/ cGre are as
follows :—.kir: Sergeant Ballantine, Mr. Gitfard, Q.C.,
Mr. Pollard (of the Australian Bar), Mr. Jenne, and
Mr. Hose for the plaintiff; the Solioitei-G I, Mr.
Hawkins, Q.C., Sir George Honywan. Q.C. Mr.
Chapman Barber, and Mr. C. Bowen for the defendants,
the guardians of the Infant In possession • and Mr.
Matthews, Q.C., and Mr. Purcell for the truitees.
The estates, the sumession to which !snow In dispute,
are situate in the counties of Southampton and Hamp-
shire. and are said to be worth £11,( 10 a year, with tho

baronetcy attacked. i
Mr. Belknap° stated the Can to the jrry. The
plaintiff avers that he is the eldest son of Sir James I
Tiohborne, and was born in Paris in 1829. There be
resided until he was sixteen years of age, when ho came
to England, and, four years later, became lieutenant in
the 6th Dragon Guards. He held his commission for
gorsething like four years, and then went abroad. In I
1862 Sir James died, and advertisements were published
edging information about his heir. But nothing was
heard of the missing son, until, in leCa.;, Lady Tichborne
received • letter, telling her that hoe firstborn was in I
Austreia, and eaklug money to pay his passage home.
The money was sent. The heir—or tha person claiming I
to be the heir—arrived. The claimant tells us that he
was shipwrecked ; that he was picked up and takes to
Australia ; that, lending at Melbourne in 1871, he met
with • colonist named Foster, and went with him to a
sheep-farm some hundreds of miles inland ; that he
remained there for some years under the name of
Thomas Castro, mauled, and lived a eolonia's life,
without ever once communicating with his friends in
England' As length be saw the advertisements of the
death of Sir Jamie 710113011 Ni, wrote to Lady Taco-
Comte, received £4OO from her, and finally sot sail mid
arrived in England. Lady TICIIBORNE at 01..1 wel-
*owed the new arrival as her long-lost son. She
was then red.:ling in Paris, but she subsequently came
over to England with her newly-found son. Unfortun-
ately, Lady TICHBORNE has since died. While in
Australia the aliment bociame acquainted with • person
named Arthur Orton, and the other side contend
that the ointment was not Sir Roger Tichborne but
Arthur Orton, the son of a butcher at Wapping, who
worked his way out to Valparaiso as • common sailor.
It would be for the jury to consider wither Orton, the
butcher, could simulate Tiohborne. the baronot.
When the heir left England he was • slight young
man, about 5 feet 8 inches high, and he had light hair
with no great tendency to curl. He had light eyes and
an aquiline nose, and undoubtedly hie features, inolud-
ing the forehead eyes, and month, were by no means of
an unpretossiossing character. No doubt the prevent
claimant had increased to • very considerable size, and
his (caterer; did not present the same aopearanee the.
they did at that time. He believed that this kind of
change,had &mitoses unfrequent In the Tiohborne
Ile was more in the habit of speaking French then
FALBA ; now he had forgotten the Preach language.
While in the army the heir was bled in the mole ; just
below the claimant's anale wee the trees of the lanoet.
Before air Roger left England he plied In the hands
of Mr. Gosford, his father's .toward, • sealed packet,
whieh he said aontained certain directions in the event
of his death, and since his arrival Mr. Goeford has
admitted that he that sealed packet. The
contents of it son only be lusown to Sir Roger; and
his silent would tell the *entente of that doonineut,and
challenge the production of it to show if he lied. While :
Sir Roger was on board the Pauline, he was injured by
an albatross, and the scar remained. Moore, his body
servant, spoke to this ocourrence. Many incident
would be spoken to, and a host of witnesses would
Identify the claimant as the long-lost tele
Lady Tichborne's deposition stated she had the fullest
belief that the present claimant was her lost son. Mr.
Edward Hopkins, solicitor (deceased) entertsioad no
doubt whatever of the claimant's identity. Jeivis
Morans Long remembered hunting with tit., cldinaut,
when he was a bey, with the Hampshire hounds. He
afterwards saw him at Sydney, and was so to ,n•itiooi
that he was Sir Roger Tiolob ens that he had sivancoil
him d'alo to pay his passage home. John Waldingten
at•tol be was in the same regiment as M. TiolibJrne,
arid gave him riding drills. On Monday, the 26:h of
Marsh, 1867, he saw him in London. Ho then fund
to him things whlah made him quite Portal° lie W. 13 the
Ur. Tiehborne of the Carbineers. Had no doubt id his
Identity. The Rev. Henry Hubbard, rector of Chora-
les, Southampton. Ins oelled les prove *ha it‘ndwriting
of a deceased witness. Croarememlned, he said Roger
liehborne before he left England, was short and this.
Eli firm belief was that the cialmamt was not the min.
Tbe ewe is proceeding.