Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-04
TEEE TECHBORNE TREAE.
Review Of the CasC--Ravan Or
ButciICT--A Very Strange
St0ry.

The famous Tichborne c9se, which
has just been adjourned 10y the Court
OF Common Pleas, London, until No
Yember next, and which has attracted
so much attention on both sides OF the
Atlantic, had progressed sufficiently
far to assure the jury that the claimant
to the barOnetcy and estates of tie
Tichbornes, was an impostOr. Never
theless the judge, as already stated b5,
telegraph, insists upon completing the
testimony in the case, as he could rot.
of course, do otherwise. There are
many, no doubt, who have followed
up the case, prefer to believe that the
long lost Sir Roger, supposed to have
been drowned at sea some IS years ago,
has turned up alive in the person of
the claimant. They feel in him the
same interest that they would in the
hero of a novel, who had been subject
ed to the strange vicissitudes of fortune
which the claimant processes to have
eXperieRced-thOugh no fiction ever
written contains so much that is i'm
probable and narvellous-and will be
disappointed if the prosaic butcher,
Arthur OrtOn, as the jury believe the
claimant to be, does not prove him
self to the rightful heir of the ancient
TichbOrne baronetcy and a rent-roll of
thirty thousand pounds sterling a year.
The following review of the case is
taken from summary from the Lon
don reports of the trial:
HOW THE "LONG LOST" TURNED UP.
The first that was heard of the claim
ant was in 1856, when the late baron
etcy of TichbOrne having died, it be-
came matter of legal importance to
know for certain that the heir to the
title and property, believed to have
been drowned by the wreck OF the
Stella, about thirteen years before, was
really dead. Lady TichbOrTe's lawyer
put advertisements in the London pa
pers offering a reward for more definite
information about the fate of the miss
ing man. Responses were directed to
be addressed to Lady II. F. Tichborne
at her residence. Some months after
wards letter came to Lady Tichbbrne
hegining My dear mama, nsigned ''R.
ID. TichbOrnc," and containing the
most ardent protestations of love for
the old lady, and fragmentary eXpla-
nation of the reason of the writer's
mysterious conduct in SO long hiding
away from family and friends, horribly
misspelled, but by no means deficient
in sense ana tact. The writer yearned
to return home Immediately, and only
| lacked funds for the journey.
Lady Tichborne, who, mOther-like,
had never given up hopes of seeing
her first-born again, believed the letter
to be genuine, although the handwri-
ting was very different from that oi
her child of other days, and the wretch
cd spelling marked sad degeneracy
! n one who had been carefully educa-
ted at StOnyhurst, and who, though
not an extraordinary bright boy, al
least knew how to spell. She return
ed an affcctiOnate answer, and desired
the 'long lost" to come to England al
once, bringing his wife and children
with him, (for he had acquired a fami-
| ly in Australia after his hair-breadtll
| escape from the wreck of the Stella,
| and provided money for the journey
| On his arrival she was amazed to see
the slim lad who had gone to sea in 9
| fit of sclf-will and adventure in 1858
returned mdh weighing over threv
hundred pounds.