The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-01-13
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN.


The papers, a few months since. say. III,
Brunswick (Mc.) Telegraph. were filed
with details Of the career If this vonno
7 Scottish nublcman, and We need "a over
but little Of the ground that has been n,,cI
pied before The reoler will r,caIIcct thai
hc was for some time u resident nf Rich
inond, Me, whore he worked At day labor.
oeilg occupied during the spring nf 1859
~ cutting Ice on the kcnnebcc he left
Richmond for Boston To- take the pnsitioD
q hrst officer Of u threc-masted schooner
bound, we believe, to Australia, and it was
from this vessel that lie was washed over
board and lost, when only few davs out
0f port. His family had hccn en,leavnriny
" get track # HIM for three or four years.
1,. d.L wild uFtt Ylew atf1ir cline Ia his Wsn-
derlngs hal been discovered, q commission
Of three gentlemen Tome the tutor Of the
young Earl and the second Chancery OFF
cer) came over IT, this country to look up
the evidence, not only to the identity of the
Earl with Osborn, hut to procure evidence
of his death, point of great Importance
to the settlement If the family title and
estate. Subsequent to the Earl's departure
the heir had died, and he stood next in right
to the possession, fact Of which he died in
ignorance
The commission visited Richmond. and
obtained very conclusive evidence that Os-
born and the Earl were one and the same
person. When Osborn was about to leave
Richmond for Boston, being short If money,
he went to an acquaintance there a young
man by the name Of Randall, and asked
the loan Of twenty dollars, and offered a.
leave with him valuable rifle, Randall tn
hold It for redemption until Oslpoms re
turn. The offer was accepted. Upon the
arrival # the commission at Richmond,
and when their business was made known.
Of course parties having any knowledge of
Osborn appeared before them, among them
Randall with the rife, which was fully
identified rs the property Of the missing
earl Another party had small trunk he
longing tn him, and in this were found let
tiers from hls family, written some years
ago, soon after he left home.
4 young lady to whom Osborn paid some
attention brought forth picture presented
her by the Earl. The commission took the
rifle, trunk and picture giving To- the young
lady another picture of the Earl, and max
ing handsome compensation to the parties
who gave its members any information. To
Randall the commission promised as good a
rifle IN return for the one he had given up
as could he made in England About two
months since the rifle was received. and
parties who have seen it describe it as an
elegant piece of workmanship, probably a.
perfect ~ its shouting qualities as it is in
its exterior urnamentation. The object in
taking the rife and picture WAS for evidecce.
and doubtless the parties surrenderiIlg them
made depnsitions to the facts in the respec
tive cases
Osborn created i favorable impression
while in Richmond He deposited none,
IN the savings bank, the cashier of which j,
an old friend Of ours This officer at ON,
time when Osborn came in t. deIosit
pleasantly remarked to him. (" You will IN,
day be somebody n How 50 z" queried
Osborn. " A young man. unlike others u
your age. y"u are taking care If your mon
ey, was the reply If the cashier. OF cnurs.
Osborn y signature to the pass book va.
taken IN evidence. Nothing Was ever drop
ped hN Osborn in Richmond t. lead any
one t. suppose that he was other than ht
appeared except upon one occasion. when
after words which he had with a well know
shipowner there, probably in some temper
he remarked, ~ could buy and sell vor
two or three times At the moment IN,
remark made no impression.