St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-21
THE TiCHBORNE CLAIMANT.
His Release Yesterday-A Short Story
of His Eventful Career.
Special Telegram 10 the. Globe. |

LONDON, Oct. 20.-The Tichborne claim
ant was secretly brought to Pentonvile prison
last night. He was discharged this morning,
quite unexpectedly to himself. His time
had still three days to run at Scotland yards.
He received ticket of leave, requiring him
to report monthly to the authorities. He APP
peared to be in good health. He will remain
quiet for the present, keeping his residence
secret.
The famous Tichborne trial ended in 1874.
The proceedings which were preliminary TO
this most wonderful case on record lasted
three years, and the active ejectment case
by the claimant, who has just
been released, lasted six months. Then he
was put upon his own trial for perjury, and
after six months, in which there were actu-
ally 1SS days of sittings, the jury found him
guilty of perjury. The solicitor general oc-
cupied thirty-one days in opening the case,
the counsel for the defense forty seven days
in summing Gp, and the judge eighteen days
in giving the charge. The jndge's
charge alone occupied $50 solid col
umns OF the London Times. Half million
dollars were contributed by the English
people in the shape of bonds to enable the
claimant to prosecute the case, and, accord
ing to the Spectator, the case cost all parties
| 81, $50, 600.
Roger Charles Tlchborne was born in
| 1929, and was heir to baronetcy and an i'm
mense English estate, yielding an income of
| 800, 900 a year. The inother and father
were i'll assorted. The boy passed through
the hands of priests and tutors
at Paris and entered the army.
Finally he determined to travel,
After visiting certain South American ports
he disappeared, and is supposedto have been
lost at sea in 1854. He was slender, and be-
cause OF his half English: half French eduea-
ton, had many marked peculiarities. His
disappearance placed his proud, wilful and
half crazy mother in peculiar attitude as to
the estate. The property badesfair to pass
into the hands Of a daughter-in-law. She
would not believe in her sons death and SO
advertised in all the Australian papers for
information regarding the missing heir to
the vast Tichborne estate.
There soon appeared customer, Arthur
Orion, an Australian adventurer, butcher
and stock driver, who had sailed the Atlantic
and Pacific, and who had visited places
where Roger Tichbone had been. An ade pit
at duplicity, he presented himself as the genu
inc Sir Roger Tichborne, the sole survivor OF
the lost Bella, who had been rescued and
picked up by another Australian vessel, whose
identity he protested never to have known.
He was fat, clumsy. ignorant, lowbred. He
| did not understand q word of French, could
not write a note without twenty vulgar
blunders, and for twelve months after an
nouncing himself was ludicrousiy in the
dark concerning matters pertaining to the
! Tichborne family. 1t is said that at first be
was hardly serious about his pretensio but
was soon surrounded by plenty who were
serious, attorneys, moneylenders, and
dupes, who encouraged him in the enter
prise. In 1867 the claimant landed in Eng
land and was at once recognized by his
overioyed mother, Lady Tichborne. The
woman, infatuated and half insane, at once
handed over to her supposed son every
journal, letter, scrap, things OF every kind
that she could TO aid him in his Identification.
The claimant had also clever and unscrupul-
| ous-accompliees in the case. The SpectGiol
said: ssThe credulity which has been disclosed
throughout the case is positively frightful
Evidence Of the most una1swerable charac-
ter has left the believers absolutely IN
manned" SIT would appear" said the Sat
tsrddy RSyisar, THAT there are epidemics, il
not of insanity, at least of folly ind un-
| reasoDableness, which come to pretty much
the same thing. II is possible. Cd some such
theory, to account for the deplorsbie exhibit
ton Of human Stiffness that has been al
forled in the Tiehborne case Half the
people Of England, high and low, educated
| and N, lettcrnd h..liara in the claimant -