The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-01-01
The T'lchbornc Anair.

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that review of it will not be uninter
estiug to our readers.
Sir James Tichborne married Frencl
Indy, daughter of m English gentleman
auda French woman. They had yer,
unhappy life. The education of thei
son, Roger, theplaintiiI in the case, wa,
entrusted 10 n FrcnchmNn named Chatil
Ion, aud was grossly neglected. Wher
his family returned to England, in 1916
he WIS sent to Stonyhurst, the great
Catholic college, to school, but owing tc
various causes, chief Of which was his
want of preparation, and his gross ig
noraucc OF English, he made little pro
gress, Examined at Sandhurst for the ar
my, he made wretched examination, but
the examiners were not particular, and
he was passed. He joined the Carbi'
neersin lS40, at Prtobello Bridge. In
lS50 he visited Tichborne, and there met
his cousin, Kate Doughty, with whom
he fell in love, whom he wanted to mar
ry, aud with whom, MS he swears, he WIS
more familiar than was right. Refused
her hand by her father, and unhappy in
the army and society, where his peculiar
tiles had made him ridiculous, he deter
mined to leave England Before do
ing so, after consultation with Mr.. Hop
kins, nm eminent solicitor, Mr.. SlRugh
ter aud Mr.. HOsford, the steward OF the
estate, he made will. He then sole
out OF the army, and after visiting his
father and mother in Paris, he took pas
pNgo in the Pauline for Valparaiso
About this time he was slight, witt
light hair and eyes, and by no mean'
bad looking. He was about five feeI
eight and half inches high. During
his sojourn in France he fell on his head
receiving wound which left largt
mark. While in the army he had n seri.
ous lainting fit, from which he recover
cd only when thesurgeon bled him in the
anllc-both Of which marks the present
clNimcnt possesses, andmodi ,al evidence
is forthcoming that he could not have in
tlictcd them within amy recent period,
Before leaving he left in the hands oi
Mr.. Gosf0rd n sealed packet, the con,
tents Of which were known to no one.
The sol disdn, Tichborne declares that he
can tell its contents if it is produced by
Gosford. When the Pauline sailed from
IIavre, there was on hoard with Roger
Iichborne body servant named Moor.
The vessel reached Valparaiso in June,
1853, and the pair then proceeded to San
tiago, where Moore fell i'll, and Itch
borne left him to go to Valparaiso
from there he went to Melipilla, and re'
manned three weeks knocking about.
Then lie returned to Valparaiso, from
which he sent home some birds feathers
and skins, Having taken coastinp
voyage in the Pauline, he returned tC
Valparaiso and Santiago, and then cross
ed the continent to Rio Janeiro. He took
passage in the Bella for New York. That
ship was lost. The news having come tc
England the next OF kin administered
the will Of his father, and took possession
OF the estates, Sir Roger having been
treated rs defunct. Instead of all the
crew Of the Bella having been lost, Sil
Roger states that two boats lett the ship
one OF these was lost from the othel
he was picked up by an American bari
in Il state bordering on insanity, and was
brought to Melbourne in July, 1853
Just in the gold fever. In company will
u Mr.. Foster, son Of the Attorney-Gene
ral of Australia, he went to Boisdale, il
Sippland. Here he attracted the ntten
ton Of Mr.. Foster by his riding, nm dc
conplishment of which he was master
before leaving England. He afterward!
went to Daigo, where he accepted me-
nial employment, calling himself Thomas
Castro, in memory OF Il companion nj
Melipilla. When ut Dqigo ho met Ar
thur Orton, whose name figures so often
in this trial. "a butcher of the
butcher type = the butcher type oI
Mapping" This is the man whom the
defendants claim is now personating Sil
Roger Tichborne. For long time these
men associated together. One of the
most important questions the jury vii
have to decide is whether Tom Caste wal
Arthur Orton or Tichbornc. In 1861
they visited Wagga Wagga. In 1861
TichbOrne married.
While all believed in the loss Of the
Bella, his mother, Lady Felicitie Itch
borne, hoped against hope and nevel
ceased searching for him. In 1866
'lichborne heard Of their efforts through
an attorney named Gibbs, who had seer
the advertisements, and suspected thai
Castro and the missing bronet wert
one. After while he wrote to his mo
thcr from Wagga WNgga, on january
II, 1866, his last previous letters having
been dated in April, 1864. In this Aus
tmlian letter he alluded to two circum
stances, known only to her and to him
self. She, however, did not accept thi,
statement ms proof. And wrote back t.
him to TINT effect. He wrote in reply
giving further particulars, among other,
that he had been recognized by Boyle
a black servant Of the family, whereof il
may bGsaid TINT the apparent theory o
the defence was that Boyle had postot
Orton on all matter concerning the fam
lily, After going to America, TiChbornI
returned to America in December, 1866
lie then went to Paris to see his mother
and was il nedintcly recognized by her
4 suit L,s thercupon commenced TO
the restoration Of tho estates. TWAS re
sisted by the posscssors, declaring tina
the claimcnt was not the man h
pretended to he. Commissioners wer
sent out by both parties to Soutl
America md Australia. The soi.diSm
Sir Roger courtcd the strictest scrutiny
and for the purpose Of proving his iden
tity held interviewswitli men Of all rank
and positions who knew him in early life
His fellow.oilicers and soldiers in til
CNrbineors, fellow-students in the Col
lcgo at StoHyhurst, his solicitor, MI
Hopkins in fine, even his own mothe
declares Tint he il Sir Roger Charlie