The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-12
BUTcHER or BARoNErs
ESPECIAL rRLEeRAx ro.gHE NEws.l

The Tlchborno Trial-SIr Rogers sur-
prise-startling stortes-Ths Claim
ant to be Arrested for Perjury, at the
suit OF Mr.. RatcliHe-The Wizard Of
the North In the Case.
fcorrespoadenoelof the New York World.l !
- LONDON, November2l.
The surprises in the highly sensational
drama of sBaronet or Butcher" are not yet
over, if there be any truth In the following
startling statement which appeared IN the
London correspondence Of the Scotsman yes
terday- It win be remembered that the case
of the defence is that the claimant Is not
Roger 1lchborne, but Arthur orton, son of .
butcher at W spping:
az st,,ma vears apo q person who had been
brought up TO the law, and who had held the
pos,lion OF superintendent Of police In Green
ocR. and procurator- fscalship somewhere
else. came to London and became clerk In
place close 10 London; Bridge. Soon after that
he went to Australia, where ne remained
about eight months, When he returned 70
Gentleman who had beinended him more than
once. BE mentioned to this gentleman that
when he left Sydney there was great talk there
about a man named Orton and the Tichborne
case, and expressed hts surprise at hnding
somewhat similar talk going on IN Lopdon
ABOUT the same person. he had found that
customs locker at Brewers Quay, london
Bridge, had been In the Carbileers when
Roger Hchborne figured In that regiment, and
he Strongly denounced The claimant as au Inn
uostor. All this was brought 10 the ears OF the
Counsel for the defence In the Ticno0rne case.
The Scottish gentleman who had been to Aus.
tralla was quickly engaged at a paymen. q
1850 q year, exclusive OF travelling expenses,
to 90 to the auIlpodes and hunt up Orton's an
tecedents. This gentleman has JUST returnef'
TO England, and be Is able 70 give. fhl partlcq-
lara Of The whole career OF orion rom the oe-
ginning TO the end. ! am told that he can prove
that the. 0rton about whom there mas oeen SO
much talk went out to South America some
vears ago. as butcher, and settled on the
siSsranchn or farm belonging to a man named
De Castro. orion, after some time, took the
,oame az De- Castro. When Orion came home,
k used to be known among his friends as De
Castro quite as much as by his proper name
After lime old Orion became tired OF sup
porting his son Ia idleness. and ne sent MIN
off tosAustralia In charge Of anumber OF Shet-
land pouiesJ It appears that the captain and
some of the crew Of the vessel which TOOK Or
ton and the Shetland ponies out TO Australia
are to be brought forward es witnesses for the
defen.e, This occurred within the past ten
vears. II Is to be sworn that Orton was landed
al. Sydney, that he. has never been IN Mel
boHrne, and that his occupations whilst In
-Anstralia consisted Of what isfknown, as loaf-
fac and bushranging. / am also assured that
the Scottish witnesst0 whom have been g.
lndiao has got q warrant against Orton fora
crime alleged to have been committed BY him.
am further informed that the claimant Is to
be permitted to make as much assertion as he
can he Induced to make, aud that Mr.. Ballan-
fine will be forced TO proceed with the part OF
the evidence respecting Orton before The de-
fence win be entered upon. If i am rightly
informed the Orion evidence Will be q very
sensational affair A man Is 10 be produced as
a witness who viii answer to The name OF Or
ton.1T His evidence inchief ID to be allowed TO
be given without any interference. Alter that
the encouragement will proceed to prove
that this man is not the 0rton that has been so
much wanted, but his brother, Edward Orton.
Ihave also been positively assured that we'll
known London detective Is In attendance
every day, e!ose az hand with the claimant, 10
present him with warrant for his arrest on
charge OF perjury, at the instance OF MI. Rat
cliffe, the husband OF Kate Doughty, Tor that
the books Of the Csrabineers are to the fore,
his regiment In Ireland the whole of the year
in which the alleged seduction took place, and
that his couein was the whole of the same
tin. In England No matter how the case
ends. this warrant is to be served. It has
been calculated that the trial will cost
quarter OF million Of money. The whole of
. that large sum has to come out OF the Itch
borne estates, which represent about twenty
FIVE thousand pounds year. In the mean
time. YOU will probably have noticed that the
Tichhorne one hundrei-pound bonds, which
we're selling some short time ago for ten shil-
lings. have gone up to forty pounds.