The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-12-05

NUMBER 10.
ACELBDBA1RD CASE.
4hs Story eftAs xieAt ,sns olaamans 1sass
" 1stold.
The Tichborne Claimant was sen.
tenced on February 28, 1874, by Lord
Chief Justice Cockburn to fourteen
years penal servitude-seven years each
on two separate counts in the Indictment.
BY good conduct in prison he hes now
secured his release by . communta-
tion of over thres years of the term
for which he was sentenced. Tie Clai:
mant's friends some months ago bought
the celebrated Granville Hotel fol
him and now that he is re-.
leased he will probably begin life
afresh as hotel-keeper. First, how.
ever, lie will be taken to furnished
house in Hampshire, which in the early
part of this month was taken by Mr..
Quartermain East for his reception.
During the imprisonmento their father
Mr.. East has taken upon himself the
responsibility of maintaining and edu.
eating tho Claimants two daughters.
The young girls have had all the alvan-
tages enjoyed by the children of their
protector, and the elder will 60 to live
with HIM and keep house. In order
that the claimant may not, at any rats
for some time to come, be worried by
pecuniary matters, Mr.. East purposes
making HIM an ample weekly allow.
ance. 1t is understood that it is his de.
sire to be left alone with his family, st
least for time.
Although the Tichborne story has
been often told, brief summary may be
appropriately given at this juncture.
Roger Charles Tichborne, child born
January 5. 1899. of an ancient English
family, was, after his father, heir to
the title and estates Of his uncle, Sir
Edward. He was educated in France,
and at tho college of Stonyhurst, en-.
tered the army in 1849, and his mar
riage with his cousin Kate. Sir Ed
wards daughter, beng opposed by her
parents. lie resigned his commission in
1852 and went to sen. He is known to
have arrived ut Valparaiso June 10, 1858,
and having crossed the continent east
ward on April 20, 1854. he sailed from
Rio for New York in the Bella, which
was lost at seq. His father succeeded
to the baronetcy March 5, 1858, and
died June IL, 1862. 1t then passed to
the second son, Alfred (Roger being)
presumed to be lost), who died Febru-
airy %, 1866, and was succeeded by
his posthumous son, the present Sir
Henry Tichborne. born May % in
that year. In 1865 Sir James widow,
hoping Roger might he alive, had ad-
vertised for HIM in the English and
Australian papers; in 1866 her sdver-
tlsementwas answered by ons Thomas
Castro, Il butcher at Wagga Wagga,
Australia, who pretended to he her son,
asserting that he had been saved from
the wreck of the Bella. After some cor.
respondence with Lady Tichborne,
Castro sailed for England, where he ar
rived December 25, 1866; in January,
1867, he joined her at Paris, and was by
her accepted rs her son, though most Of
the other members of the family repu-
dated him. In March lie filed a bill
against the Trustees of the estate, and
having been occupied in the interim in
obtaining witnesses and testimony,
brought the action for the recovery Of
the estates, valued at s24, 900 a year, to
trial May IL, 1871. Lady Tichborne,
had died March 12, 1868. still believ-
ing Castro to be her son. The trial lasted
at one session lC3 days, and-with adj
journments-til March 6. 1872. when
the jury declared themselves convinced
chat the claiment was not Sir Roger,
and he was nonsuited. The principal
points against hlm were his ignorance
of French, which language tine true
Sir Roger spoke admirably, and of in.
cidents happening during his sojourD
i'll France; the dissimilarlty Of the hand
writing of the two men; the marked
physical differences; the claimants neg
lect. while in Australia to avail himself
of the large balances ut Sir Rogers
credit. though he was pressed for mon-
ey, and his own action in seeking out
Immediately on his return to England
the Ortons family in rather hum
BILE life, to whom lie presented
himself and sent his photograph
as Arthur Orton. The claimant
was indicted for perjury as "Thomas
Castro, otherwise Arthur Orton," put
on trial April 23, 1873, and. after O
trial of lS8days' duration, was convicted
and sentenced as above stated. The
case, altogether, is one of the most not.
able recorded in legal history. After
concluding the first term of seven years
for which he was sentenced. Castro
appealed for the remission of the second
seven years imprisonment on the
ground that the two proceedings on
which he was convicted and sentenced
to two several terms of penal servitude
were only one proceeding. and that the
two offences with which he was charged
were only one offense. Judah P. Ben.
jamin argued this point before the
Court of Appeals in London, June "a
1880. but failed to convince the Judges
that it was we'll taken.
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