The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-05-23 00:00:00

THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT.

Thera &se no doabt, thousand. who believe the soi•
diesel R C. D. Tichborne, alias Castro. tains Orton. at
present ts be the right man to the wrong p ace, and that
his proper position would be as master of the Tiring Ay
revenues of Tight, else. There Cr. many of that way of
thinkingin Pot., and certainly thronshnit the coontey
be prove, to haws hoe's of (oilmen, who are not sparing
of Omr rot, in his behalf.
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jb;rl•—paii;Phlet of some 90 pages sent ne
hr the Tichnorn•C 'matinee, of Southampton. containing
the argument. &Armond in f senor of • p,tition to he pre-
wets& to the H,use of Commons 'in behaif ftheir much
injured feilow-countryinan, R. C. D. Tichborne, and to
solicit the support of every inenib•r of Parliament and
other influential gentlemen in England. holding oace or
otherwise, to obtain a reverml of the judgment that not
only wrongfroly deprives en Zoglishman of his estates,
but brands him se • felon for seeking to recover them.
The following extracts will not be uointereeijoa to oat
readers in this locality. Among other things "Th.
petition of inhabitants midis, In the county of Hemp,
shire state.:
"The Petitlottart atu from their ma know-
ledge. and Irmo the evklence produced at the trial and
famished dom, that be is not Arthur Orion, such Demons
beyond the possibility of • doubt, being then. during the
trial. and has been since the nth August, lvi, en imitate
a • Government 4.taatic Asylum at Paraugus, in air
li!icetem GdPur of New South Wales.
'Previous to the lunatic entering the asylum in 1871, he
was in Darlinghurat Gaol in Sydney, from whence he was
removed to the lunatic rail= at Parematti, in are of
Warder Joho whitey. who, in his affidavit. swears while
an officer in the above r•ol, it wm • matter 4 notoriety
to me end the other offices at the thge. that the sa,
Creswell's real name we. Atithur Orton.- bila he wee always
so called by the said Antic lad by hit fellow prisoners.'
"The Superintendent of the Lunatic Reception Route at
Darlituthurst, New South Wales, Sir. F. Fowler, when
called upon officially by the Governoteat of that Colony
to report upon the conduct and state of mind of the
lumens upon admission, law who ha represented himself
to be, bc., _stated that be gave little or no troubl,. con-
versed ratioaally, said his none was Orton, and that he
was • butcher.
"It wads freely admittirrt 11, that Arthur Odom
arrived at Hobart Tows le the ship Middleton,
from Load.., gi Which Mr. moss Peebles was 2nd offli•er.
and who on the 96th Felsoary„l67B, in the mum of luting,
vidheithe lunatic anions at Nraroatta, in &mosey with
Mr. William Lock end J. Ectford, Eq.. M.P., for flydoey,
when out of shout 990 lunatic§ paraded before him, het
without the slightest Isositation.pointed out and leigntined
In the person or coi Demi./ under the name of William
ortagia. the ,witefite gteAter Orem he had known as
butcher on board his ship the Middleton, in 1952. He had
peaketely Informed Joseph tekford, En. It P., and Mr.
William Look, of the bite of a ferret received on the hand
of Arthur Orton while on • range out t) Hot art Town,
and merely to oxilirm his n, on the lunette
being milled aside and examined, the mark of the said
ferret bite was olesely visible. Mr. Janie' Poebies has
made a statutory declarstio• of the above fonts. Among
others who identify the said lunatic noon oath to be the
sante MOOD, Arthur Orkee (tie MK is the wile ef the
said 'mastic, who states that although he married h.,
nada Ms saes of Orgeweß, ne informed her thel wee
dar, imatedialli she* tb• maim% ON Ws rag amis

was Arthur (Moe, sod that Ms Whir yes S botcher to
Leedom
Tha petitiou coselwast—" That, seder Uwe Powerful
otrooulthomelk the-e bumbir Prep Tour H moor
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obis Home will awes the mad Sum** A,thur Grim. who
mewed Me asylum as Oa Bth Angus.. .FM mud ouch Per-
sous Mare who haat swore to Ms lessum„ lobs brought to
st the piddle esposat."
tZtraz,....,rma—e-itspot .bitkv:zat, tab. the Art ue
Orton, they had endeavoured to parse him to be, at loess
otAer dilereat people, omega other.. beteg—
' That he was • sailor from Yoga; sod agate that he
was Devld Ow, a native of Pools, wham mother wee
=11!1, the Law loatituta to identify him ea her soe—
fwer POW= been requested to put oe bar egmetsetse
that sfas debt its better—she Imatedleady replied by
esylag—he is no sot of wise."

ZAKWO!LTZT.

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Mr. C. fionnirm, M.P., hes presented a petition to
Pediment from the inhabitants of Hantworthy
against the switniesion of avowed atheists to Peril*.
mat.