Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-21
The Tichhorne Cnse

A correspondent of New York paper, writ
ing from London about the Tichborne case,
states as a fact circumstance not before made
public, which, il true, explains some of the
evidence which seemed hardly consistent with
either the claimants or the defendants position
The defendants theory has been that the pre-
tended Roger C. Tichbone was really Arthur
0rton, the son Of London butcher. According
to this correspondent, it is now ascertained that
the claimant is both TichbOrne and 0rton or
more plainly that the father of Roger Charles
Tiehborne had Fan Legitimate child by his
cook, Mary Orion, sister of old George orion,
who, the defense say, was the claimants father,
and by whom the claimant under the name of
Arthur Orion, was brought up. The boy was
ignorant of his true parentage, and after many
strange vicissitudes settled in Australia, where
he was found in 1866, under the name of Tom
Castro. pursuing the calling of his putatiye
father, butchers. Old Lady Tichborne was
of an erratic and unsound mind, and though
thirteen years had transpred without tidings
from her long-lost son, she was monomanacal
on the subject, and not despairng of his
being alive, continued to advertise and offer
bornes a negro named Boyle, who, perhaps,
alone was in the secret of the natural son of the
claimants father, who would be half brother to
the real Roger e., and, like cunning old negro
as he is, went off quietly to Sydney, and there
finding Tom Castro, alias Arthur 0rton, re-
yealed to him the secret OF his parentage
and the situation of the title and estates
OF Tichborne. With this revelation the
mystery disappears, for from Boyle and Lady
Tichoorne, who was easily persuaded to recog-
nize the claimant as her own son, the claimant
acquired his knowledge Of the history of the real
Roger, after his sixteenth year, from which time
he resided in England. when Boyle was with
him almost constantly, and as Boyle and the
other servants Of the family knew but very
little of Rogers boyhood in France, we have an
explanation Of the remarkable fact that tbe
claimants evidence as to his history prior to his
sixteenth year is so lame aud unsatisfactory"
This discovery, if substantiated, would ac.
count for the resemblances of the claimant TO
the real Iiehborne in features, voice and man
ner, which have deceived SO many of his former
acquaintance. Ii would 90 far to explain also
the puzzling combination of minute and unex.
pected knowledge of some trivial domestic mat
tiers, with unaeeountable ignorance of othei
things, that even an impostor might have been
expected to inform himself upon
Another queer story about this case is told in
Liverpool paper. An Office in Liverpool wai
let to person In London. II was occupied fol
time by two young men, who seemed to have
some kind of employment there, but aftel
awhile they disappeared and the office remained
vacant The rent being unpaid, the owner en-
tered and found there two or three open boxes
containing large quantity of papers and docu
ments labelled with the names of Tichborne
Doughty, Radcliffe and others which hay
become familiar in the course of th
present trial. The landlord, of course
was surprised and perplexed to find him
self In possession Of documents apparently re
sting 10 affairs that are undergoing q