Connecticut western news., 1871-12-22
The Tlchhorne Afrair.

land has attracted so much attention, that 0 review of it will not be uninter- i esting to our readers.
 Sir James Tlchborne married a French l lady, daughter of an English gentleman anda French woman. They had very unhappy life. The education of their son, Roger, the plaintiff in the case, was entrusted to Frenchman named Chatil- Ion, and was grossly neglected. When hls family returned to England, in 1845, he was sent to Stonyhurst, the great Catholic college, to school, but owing to various causes, chief of which was his want of preparation, and his gross ig- norance of English, he made little pro- gress. Examined at Sandhurst for the ar my, he made a wretched examination, but the examiners were not particular, and he was passed. He joined the Carbi- neers in 1S49, at Portobello Bridge. In 1850 he visited Tichborne, and there met his cousin, Kate Doughty, with whom he fell in love, whom he wanted to mar ry, and with whom, as he swears, he was more familiar than was right. Refused her hand by her father, and unhappy in the army and society, where his peculiar ltles had made him ridiculous, he deter mined to leave England. Before do- ing so, after consultation with Mir. Hop kins, an eminent solicitor, MT. Slaugh- ter and Mir. Hosford, the steward of the estate, he made will. He then sold out of the army, and after visiting his father and mother in Paris, he took pas page in the Pauline for Valparaiso. About this time he was slight, with light hair and eyes, and by no means bad looking. He was about five feet eight and a half inches high. During his sojourn in France he fell on his head, receiving wound which left large mark. While in the army he had a seri- ous fainting fit, from which he recover ed only when the surgeon bled him in the ankle-both of which marks the present claiment possesses, and medi gal evidence IS forthcoming that he could not have in- hicted them within any recent period. Before leaving he left in the hands of MT. Gosford sealed packet, the con- tents of which were known to no one. The soi disant Tichborne declares that he can tell it's contents if it is produced by Gosford. When the Pauline sailed from Havre, there was on board with Roger I1chborne body servant named Moor. The vessel reached Valparaiso in June, 1858, and the pair then proceeded to San tiago, where Moore fell i'll, and Tich- borne left him to go to Valparaiso i; from there he went to Melipilla, and re- mained three weeks knocking about. Then he returned to Valparaiso, from which he sent home some birds feathers and skins. Having taken coasting voyage in the Pauline, he returned to Valparaiso and Santiago, and then cross ed the continent to Rio Janeiro. He took passage in the Bella for New York. That ship was lost. The news having come to Englana the next of kin administered the will of his father, and took possession of the estates, Sir Roger having been treated as defunct. Instead of all the crew of the Bella having been lost, Sir Roger states that two boats left tlse ship one of these was lost from the other he was picked up by an American bark in state bordering on insanity, and was brought to Melbourne in July, 1S53- just in the gold fever. In company with Q MT. Foster, son of the Gene ral of Australia, he went to Boisdale, in Sippland. Here he attracted the atten- tion of MT. Foster by his riding, an ac- complishment of which he was master before leaving England. He afterwards went to Daigo, where he accepted me- nial employment, calling himself Thomas Castro, in memory of companion at Melipilla. When at Dtigo he met Ar thur Orton, whose name figures so often in this trial. "A butcher of the butcher type - the butcher. type of Wapping." This is the man whom the defendants claim is now personating Sir Roger Tichborne. For long time these men associated together. One of the most important questions the jury will have to decide is whether Tom Caste was Arthur Orton or Tichborno. In 1861 they visited Wagga Wagga. In 1865 Tichborne married.
 While all believed in the loss of the Bella, his mother, Lady Feicitie Tich. borne, hoped against hope and never ceased searching for him. In 1865 Tichborne heard of their efforts through an attorney named Gibbs, who had seer the advertisements, and suspected thai Castro and the missing baronet were one. After while he wrote to his mo
 ther from Wagga Wagga, on January 17, 1866, his last previous letters having been dated in April, 1854. In this Aus tralian letter he alluded to two circum
 stances, known only to her and to him
 self She, however, did not accept thi. statement as proof. And wrote back te him to that effect. He wrote in repl, giving further particulars, among other, that he had been recognized by Bogle
 a black servant of the family, whereof i
 may be said that the apparent theory o
 the defence was that Bogle had posted
 Orton on all matter concerning the fam
 fly. After going to America, Tichborn'
 returned to America in December, 1866
 He then went to Paris to see his mother
 and was immediately recognized by her
 A suit was thereupon commenced fo
 the restoration of the estates. It was re
 sisted by the possessors, declaring tha
 tue claiment was not the man h
 pretended to be. Commissioners wer
 sent out by both parties to Soul
 America and Australia. The soi-disd,,
 Sir Roger courted the strictest scrutiny
 and for the purpose of proving his iden tity held interviews with men of all rank
 and positions who knew him in early life
 His fellow-officers and soldiers in tn
 Carbineers, fellow-students in the Col
 lege at Stopyhurst, his solicitor, Mir
 Hopkins in fine, even his own mothe
 declares that he is Sir Roger Charle
 Tichborne. The trial commenced o1
 May 10, and after the examination of number of witnesses, the claimant wa.
 first put on the stand on May 30. H.
 was examined through four days, ant
 for twenty three days was subjected t'
 the most searching cross-examinatiol
 that the Solicitor General of England
 SirJ. D. Coleridge, was capable of con ducting. He was then re examined fo
 two days, and on July the court ad journed until November 2. The pro
 ceedings since then have been regularl
 reported, and it is unnecessary to repea what has been said.