Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21
oRTON OR TICHBORNEl
The Mapping Butcher said to have Turn cd
 up in Australian Asylum.

The San Francisco Examiner pub. fishes a long interview with Edmund Orton, who returned on the last steamer from Australia, where he went at the instigation of Miss Georgisna Barring, daughter of one of the Barring Brothers, the celebrated London bankers, for the purpose of indentifying lunatic who is confined in the Paramatta Lunatic Asylum at Sydney, New South Wales, under the name of Cresswell, as his brother, Arthur Orton. He states that he did indentify him as his brother, and is therefore thoroughly con- vinced that the Tichborne claimant, {" recently discharged from prison in London, is really Roger Tichborne, the long lost heir to the Tichborne, estate.
 After the sentence of the Tichborne claimant, in 1874, to fourteen years penal servitude for perjury his friends by no means lost heart. They devoted both time and money to the search for the ''real Arthur Orton," whom they believed to be somewhere in Australia. Mir. w. H. Lock, of Melbourne, was the moving spirit in the matter, and he had at his back Lord Rivers, MT. Guildford Onslow, Mir. Whalley, M. P. 1; Mir. Biddulph, cousin of the undoubted Sir Roger, and host of others. These gentlemen never faltered from their faith in the innocence of the ''claimant. |" They spent thousands of pounds in his Jehalf. Mir. Lock, who had seen Arthur Orton tried for horse stealing at Castlemaine, declared that the claimants" photographs bore no re- semblance to the famous Mapping butcher. He searched far and wide to find the real simon pure, and at last he averred that he had been successful.
 The real Arthur Orton, he said, was an inmate of the Paramatta Lunatic Asylum, hopelessly insane, never having u lucid interval, but bearing upon his body certain marks and peculiarities which would conclusively prove that he was none other than the long lost Arthur. He obtained a power of at. tarney from Orton's next of kin and petitioned the Colonial Secretary for the release of the lunatic. This was refused at the time, but Mir. Lock never lost heart. Edmund Orton, Arthur's brother, and Mrs. Jury, Arthur's sister, vent to Australia and mnde affidavits tbat the lunatic was undoubtedly their brother. They recognized him, they said, by marks on his person, by the general family resemblance, by his hair and by his voice. It was not D nssible, they claimed, that they could be mistaken.
 The case has been pending in Aus tralian courts for years. Much money h,s been spent in attempting to procure ihe release of Cressweii, and Miss Barring has of late borne the greater .'art of the legal expenses. According to Edmund Orton's statement they have Ut last gained their point and the lunatic will be taken to London.
 What will be done when he gets Ihere is hard to say. Sir Roger Tich- borne has been pronounced dead by act of Parliament and his estates have been settled on the children of his brother, Alfred Tichborne. No legal steps, it is thought, can be taken in the courts until this act of Parliament ls repealed. Meanwhile the "claimant" is featuring all over England and de- nouncing his trial as travesty of justice.