The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-03-23
Bursting Of the TichbOrne Bubble.

Arthur Orton, son of the Wrapping
butcher, nee Roger Tichborne, Of Itch
borne Manor, gentleman, has come to
grief, after trial which has occupied
the court since May last. Among 'cel-
ebrated causes" this, of its kind, will
rank among the most notorious, but ns
Il record of mendacious imposturc, it is
exalted above all rivalry, and in its
superlative impudence stops short only
Of the sublime.
The great speech of Sir John Colder
idgc, Attorney General, which occu-
pied twcnty-four days in its delivery,
tunnclcd through the mountain of proof
which the plaintiff had piled up as it
were indcstructibly, and pulling away
prop after prop, it fell before the weight
of irrcfragab1e facts and unanswerable
rcfutations. The mysterious sealed pack
age, on which the sWinuler depended
to establish his identity as the original
'richborne, was not known by him to
be in existence until after the COM
menccment of the trial, and the fact
that it had been sealed by the genuine
Tichborne previous to his leaving Eng
land, and the nature Of it's contents art,
now shown to have been accidently
disclosed to Orton by the attorney for
similar brandings known to have been
on Tichborne, are missing on the per-
son Of the Wappingitc the color of the
hair and the ages of the two men do
not correspond; the devilish imputl-
ton cast upon Miss Doughty, now Mrs.
Radcliffe, is proven to nc Il nlolstrOtts
lie, fabricated from the low gossips of
an eX- servant of the Tichborne family.
\ hundred facts, linked each on each
and foreshadOwed in the address Of the
Attorney General, bringing conviction
to all England of the audacity of the
imposture, We're established by cvi-
dence incontrovertible, but beyond all,
was the letter written by Orton to his
people in Mapping, clearly identified
as in his chirography, and obtained
IRON. his own brother by the defend
ants. The letter reads as follows:
WA""A W>ooA, NEW SourH WALES,
June I'd, 1866. !
I" Nh Dear ttn1 Ief0trf Sister 1T is three
years ago since heard from any Of you.
have never heard Il word from any one I
know since 1854, but my friend Mr.. Ste
phens is abont starting for England, and
he has promised to find you all out and
write and let me know all about you. do
not nc, intend +" say 'nnch for he can tell You
all about me. Hoping, my dear sister, you
will make him welcome, us he is II dear
friend Of mime, 80 good bye: -
II tltlcN.
This letter has been held by the do
fcndant for three years, and was twice
the cause of an abandonment of Orton's
case by lawyers who had undertaken
to sustain his claims to the Ticfborne
haronctcy and it's vast estates.
In all this il is astounding to know
how many persons We're cntrapped in
to Il belief of the Wrapping butchers
identity with the wandering vagabond,
Tichbornc. Lady Tichborne declared
him to be her son -; she recognized GER
tain scarificatiOnS on his legs, and died
firm in the belief that he was her son.
Members OF the Tichborne family, and
of others living in the country of
Hampshire, identified him, while 9TH
crs, at first denying him, came over to
the belief that it was in fact the real
rambling Roger. Brother officers of
the same regiment with I'ichborne pro-
nounced Orton to be the man with
whom they had served, while old SER
wants of various grades declared their
confidence in him as the living heir of
their old master. So astonishing Il COM
plcNity of inpOsturc vas surely never
before conceived in the brain of Il mortal
butcher.
The proceedings have been pending
the cost to the defense alone amounts
to more than half Il million of dollars.
Much Of the work for the prosecution
has been done on trust, on tho Doclson
& Fogg plan, to make costs out of the
estate, but large sums were raised on
what We're known as TichbOrnc bonds,
payable when Orton Cor Tichbornc, as
the holders of these bonds believed him
to be, came into his own again. And
now, Arthur prt"n, butcher that was,
baron that wanted to- be, and fclOn that
is, has what he is fully entitled to-a
frlon'S cell. Sans money, sans friends,
sans freedom, he il not even II fit re-
cipicnt of that poor legendary Itch
borne dole Of Il loaf Of bread and two
pence, given to the Impoverished of the
county hundreds of years agonc, though
q My Lady Mabclla's' crawl
An Important Decision.