Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-04

WILLIAM CRESwELL
brows In most marked manner; also fire.
quent muttering or mumbling. and when
speaking running one word into another
with slightly foreign accent
Strange way of sitting sideways on
chair, with arm thrown over the back, and
when walking slight limp noticeable,
caused by an awkward knee. (All these
peculiarities are very marked in Creswell
Also nervous twitchinS. like St Vi
tus' dance, starting on side of mouth, af-
fecting the whole of his side and terminal
ing i'll tho foot. causing it to trcmb!c Oh
the floor noticeable frequently in Ores.
welD.
Marks.-The following are proved to
have been on Roger Tichborne when he
left South America and have also been
proved to be on Crcswcil by an anatomical
examination: Cut of Maltese cross on the
temporal artery close to tho eye, caused
hy being bled when in the army ut Can
terbury barracks; also cuts or marks on
the ankles, where they tried to bleed him
Immediately previous to his being bled in
the temporal artery.
Mark on the right eyelid, where a fish
hook penetrated and barb had to be filed
off before it could DC cxtricatcd
Cut or dent in the bone on right eve.
brow, caused by albatross striking him
with its wing.
Dent or hole in the back of the head
just behind the left ear caused by fall on
the rocks in Brittany.
Odd'ears, enc much larger in the lobe
than the other and growing lower down
on to the cheek.
Odd shoulders, one much lower than the
other.
Thumb on the right hand with cobnail :;
most peculiar.
Stuntcd finger on right hand, caused by
being caught in n wise when boy.
Large scar on back Of left wrist. caused
by burn from some acid. (This is where
the tattoo was originally, with cross heart
and anchor and initials .'R G. TT
Tho scar on being rubbed gently for
some time brings out the cross, etc. in n
white star or blister. (This tattoo mark
Crcswcll, it can he provcd, burned off with
nitric acid in 1861
Lump on the instcp of right foot
(Boots have TO DC made specially for Ores.
well on this aocount.)
Remarkably blue eyes, color of forget.
menots
Aquiline nose, tip slightly turning to
the right
Broken tooth on side Of Jaw, caused bv
chasing his cousin Caroline at one of
the Tichbornc seats. Upton, in Dorset
shire, and falling against a table tCres.
well shows this also.)
Tichborne had u seton mark the size of
sixpencc high up on his arm, and this
Creswell has also.
Perhaps the most remarkable of these
resemblances between the two men. which
are 50 numerous and convincing rs to
make the chance of their being simply n
coincidence very remote, is in the scar
where u tattoo mark had been SIR Roper
Tichborne when n young man had had
the back Of his left wrist tattooed with n
cross. a heart, an anchor and the initials
Of his name. The lawyers who are now
getting up the case for Creswell have much
evidence going To show that he had this
mark, but that he burned it off with acid
about 1854.
What became Of Sir Roger Ticblornee
The real man is heretofore thought to
have been Lost at sea. The vessel upon
which he sailed from Rio, intending to go
to New York, was never heard of again.
Her name was the Bella and there is no
doubt that the sunburned young man
wearing n wide straw hat and dressed in
white flannel who came aboard the day be-
fore the ship sailed in 1854 was in fact Sir
Roger Tichborne. heir to one If the Oldest
haronctcies in the United Kingdom ard
just then making Il two years trip around
the world.
The eisapI .srancc eff the Bella termi