The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-13
"Str ROGER Tichborne.'

NV YOrk.-Thn case Of Sir Roger
Tlrhborne, Baronet; aIias Thomas Castro,
Las Arthur Ort,G, has come - the front
cain in England with a vigor truly re-
m~arkable.
Eighteen years ago now. this persls-
toni antique was a sOlOurner 10 New
York CITY on his way home from Aus
traIja. He stopped at the Everett House,
and from there wrote home TO the dow
aver. Lady Tichbornc, announcing his
return, and addressing her as his dear
mother.
The facts that twenty member Of Par
lament are said to have declared in his
favor within a month, that four districts
have offered to send him to Parliament
at the first election, that he is now
etumping Great Britain IN his own be-
half with a Vehemence approaching to
p!auuence, and that he announces that
he Will come to the United States in the
.pring," j~ustifies me, | think, in giving
a statement Of the present status of his
case.
La 1858 young Roger. rather a wild
b1y, got leave Of absence from the army,
where he bad been a lieutenant for three
years, and shortly afterwards resigned his
commission and started to see the
w0rld.'
Thirteen years later a man came to
England, asserted that he was Sir Roger,
and laid claim to the estates Of the TIch
borne family as the rightiul heir
Seven years after, IN February, 1874,
having failed to prove his identity to the
satisfaction OF the English court. he was
sentenced by Chief Justice Cockburn to
fourteen years $ penal servltude.
After remaining IN prison ten years, re-
ceiving treatment uncomInonly rigorous,
he was on October 20 last released in
consequence of his excellent behavior as
a prisoner, and he is now out on ticket
~of-leave for the rest of his term, com
pelied to report monthly to the prison
authorities.
THE f APPEAL FOR JUSTICE
During the next few years the realm
seems likely to be subjected to an agita-
ton concerning this man even more vio-
lent than that which rent society asunder
and separated families during the six
years Of his first contast. Time has only
increased the bitterness. Already Eng
Iani Is divided into partisans pro and
con, and the new generation Is taking a
hand. The aristOcracy of England is al
most a init against him, holding that he
Is one of the vIlest wretcbes that ever
escaped the gallows, while the common
people generally regard him as the great
martyr ever crushed under loot by the in
Justice of courts.
Ap odd circumstance is that the Clai-
mant finds twice as many friends and
champions awaiting his release from
prison as gathered around him during
the trial. Scores OF wealthy men have
come forward and offered money to secure
Justice; men of honorable names have es-
pOused his cause publicly, and he Is Ia a
better position than ever to give trouble
to the taSt-anchOred isle. During his
long incarceration men aad women of
means have taken care OF his wife and
children, aud a "~Tichborne Relief Assoc
eaton has been tor years at work col
Letting evidence 10 favor of one believed
to be a victim of government persecution.
4 newspaper is published solely in his
interest. and many others have come out
10 favor of reOpeniDg the case. His
friends intended to give him a grand re-
ceptlOn on his release from prison, and a
meeting of ID, 900 people in his honor
was to be held in the Westminster Aquar
lum Hall, bat the Claimant discourages
all theatrical methods, and at his request
the day otlhislrelease was kept secret and
the gathering prevented.
IMPORTANT MEDICAL EVIDENCE.
The claimant has no strawberry mark
about his person attesting his genuine
ness; but he has a very peculiar physl-
cal malformation which was not brought
to the attention of the court, but sup
pressed as being "a delicate NATTER
meaning indicate, perhaps. a cele-
brated London doctor who has eXamin-
ed him Is ready to give important evil
dence which throws new light on some
mysterious letters written By young
Tichborne to his mother, and which cor
responds precisely with a mallormation
about which Lieut.. Sir Roger was made
a butt by his brother officers.
A LETTER OF THE CLAIMANTS.
Early last fall the claimant wrote
from the prison a letter to Mr.. East,
former Sheriff of London, and a tried
supporter, which is worth notice for its
style. He began by thanking his friends
for their support, involving great trouble
and expense, and proceeded: For ten
years and a half they have appealed for
Justice and been treated with the great
est contempt in return. 1t shows clear
~ that the people of the nation under
the present system have no remedy or
redress against the government, when
that august party thinks proper to do an
injustice. This should not be, and, |
take it for granted will be much longer
The remedy is in the hands of the peO-
pie, and if they will be united among
themseles the rest is easy. 1t is not by
riot, disturbance or abuse that Justice
can be obtained by the people, but by
being thoroughly united and by remem-
bering that the men forming the govern
mRnt are chosen by themselves.
Il shall be pleased on every occasion
to join my supporters in all their owe
ments, so long as they are conducted in
a quiet lawful manner, but to be a party
to any elamorous demonstration, do not
intend. That being so, | have taken it
upon myself to ask the authorities not
to allow the time and place of my re-
lease to be make known. Let me bee
of my friends and supporters not to be
make known. Let me beg of my friends
and supporters not to form any demon
s~tration upon my release. =
The government employed the Treasury
police to crush. rob and circumvent me
because it was demanded of me before
God aud man to speak the truth and
spoke it! What crime to speak the
truth. What a coward am | to fear t.
belle my conscience before God and SC
save a lady's character (alluding to the
alleged seduction of his cousin, Lady
Radclihel, there was not one in this
world more genuienely sorry than my
self. It's her lawyer she should. blame
not me-"
This letter, whose authenticity is not
denied, is scarcely the production of
lOw-class London butcher and bush
Wacker in in Australia.
DIFFICULTIES OF II CASE.
The case has difficulties. The claiman