Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-07-22
TICHBORNE.
The History of n Butcher who Claims a
Ancient English Bar0netcy. 'H7

The History Of q Butcher who Claims an
Ancient English IsarOnetcy. .ifv
New YORK July 19.-The Times special
correspondent writes as follows in regard
to the Tichborne case: -r-.a.
The information / give you will be the
first publication of the paradoxical fact
that the claimant is both Tichborne and
orion. Scouting mystery, l proceed to the
solution.
When Roger G. Tichborne left England
for South America, his uncle, Sir James
Doughty, was in possession Of the Itch
borne estates. He dying childless, the title
and estates fell to the claimants father,
who also dying, his eldest son Roger G.,
would have inherited the estates had he
survived. AS it was believed that Roger
persisted in 1853, in the shipwreck of the
ship Bella, in which he unquestionably
sailed from Rio for New York, Alfred, his
younger brother, succeeded, and he, dying
at the age of twerty-eix, left an infant,
who, had not the claimant appeared would
unobstructedly, on arriving at the legal
age, have assumed the title and 2proprie-
tOrship Of the estates.
All these facts are not new to you but
this one is, viz: That the claimants father
had an Legitimate child by his cook,
Mary orion, sister of old Gen. Orion who,
defense say, was claimants father. and
by whom claimant, under the name of Ar
thur orion; was brought rupD The boy
was ignorant of his parentage, and after
many strange Vicissitudes settled in Aus
tralia, where he was found in 1865 under
the name Of Tom Castro, pursuing the
calling of his putative father, a butcher.
Old lady Tichborne was of an cratic
and unsound mind and, though thirteen
years had transpired without tidings of
her long lost son, she was monon1aniacal
on the subject, and not despairing ofhis be-
ing alive, and continued to advertise and
offer re wards. - '- 49,
There was in the family of the ITCH
bornes negro boy named Boyle, who,
perhaps alone was in the secret ofthe nat
uraI SON of the claimants father, who
would be half brother tothe real Roger G..
and, like a cunning old negro as he Is,
went off quickly to Sydney, and there
finding Tom Castro, alias Arthur Orton,
revealing to him the secret Of his parentage
and situation in relation to the title and
estates of Tichbrone. w p
With this revelation the mystery disap-
pears, for from Boyle and Lady Tichborne,
who was easily persuaded to recognize the
| claimant as her own son, the claimant ac-
| quired his knowledge OF the history of the
| real Roger after his sixteenth year; from
which time he resided in England. When
we remember that Boyle and the other ser-
wants of the family knew but little of Rog-
er's boyhood in France, we have an expla-
nation of the remarkable fact that the
claimants evidence as to his history prior
to his sixteenth year is SO lame and unsat-
| isfactory, ~-r-~ --,-y
1t is rumored that the defense is SO
alarmed at the strength the plaintiffs case
/ disclosed on cross, examination that they
win, on the reassenlbfing ofthe courtaftel
adjournment, shift their ground and at
tempt to defeat the CLAIMANT as the natural
son of Sir James Tichborne. -