The San Francisco call., 1899-12-29
Such Is the Story That Re-
wives the Famous Itch
borne Case.
NEW SOUTH WALES IS
INVESTIGATING.
From the Antipoies Comes a Fresh
Chapter in a Most Remark
able Affair.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Y VANCOUVER. B. G.. Dec. 2S-The
famous story Of the Tichbome
NJ claimant IS revived by advices
" brought from Australia on the
steamer Aorangi. The Govern
fnent of New South Wales is so impressed
with the probability that an inmate OF the
Parramatta Insane Asylum. known as
William Cresweu. may be Sir Roger Itch
borne that Il has appointed a commission
10 inquire into the antecedents OF Cres-
well and TO investigate the circumstances
connected with the Incarceration. Popu-
lar opinion Ga sydney Is favorable 10 the
claim that Creswell Is really Tichborne.
and some members of the commission are
strongly Cf the same belief.
The report Of Drs. Pickburn and Devlin.
who were deputed 20 examine William
Crcswell with "a view Of deciding whether
he bore marks known 10 have been on the
body OF Sir Roger Tichhorne. has been
presented 10 the Parliament 81 New South
Wales. Twenty-Five physical marks OF
the real Roger Tichborne were enumer-
ated for the benefit OF the examining ply
sicians. ard these two doctors found that
Creswell possessed practically all OF these
marks and characteristics.
There are only two circumstances in
which Crcswel fails 10 correspond with
The evidence Of the doctors 10 signs which
are admitted 10 be borne by the missing
no marks as OF bleeding cuts on Cres-
wells ankles But the examining physi-
clans point out that such marks might
easily have been obliterated on the legs
after long years. The other and appa-
rcntly the more serious discrepancy IS
that while Tichborne was five feet eight
and half inches In height Cresweu is
1IT7 feet sIK anu TfITCT-CI1THTIVT inches. but
the physicians say Creswel is now old
rwff ~fs.lr
would be a natural result of senility. and
probably fifteen years ago Creswen may
have been nve feet eight and half
inches in height The tattoo marks which
existed 10 tichDornc DO not exist on Cres-
wen. but there Is a wound in the exact
locality which might be that OF a cautery
directed 10 the extirpation Of tattooing
The medical experts say that so many
marks of similarity could hardly be put
down 90 coincidence. The investigation
was incomplete when the Aorangi sailed
from sydney. December ..
Roger Charles Tichborne. who disap-
pcared I'm 1854 and OF whom the attempted
impersonation by one Thomas Castro.
alias Arthur Orton. led 70 two Of the most
celebrated and protracted trials ever had
in the English courts. was born I'm Paris
in ls29 His father was Sir James Itch
borne. an English gentleman Of large
noble descent Roger was educated IN 81
ir Paris and later in England 10 but a
limited extent. as he was quite Idle.
In February. 1853 he bade his mother
g0od-by in Paris previous 10 starting on
an extended journey, and on March fol-
lowing sailed for Valparaiso. In April.
1854. he sailed in the Bella from Rio de
Janeiro FOR New York. having previous to
embarking written a letter showing mis- In
tentlon 10 protract his stay abroad for
two or three years. The Bella was lost at
sea and no one on board OF her was ever
heard OF again. though her longboat was
picked up by a passing vessel.
The viii Of Roger Charles Tichborne
was proved and his estate was placed in
the hands OF the executors. His mother
believed that he was still alive and after
the death OF her husband In 1862 adver-
tised extensively over the world for her
son. In 1856 Thomas Castro. a butcher
living AZ Wagga-Wagga. Australia. whose
real name was Arthur Orton. asserted
that he was the lost Roger. having been
saved from the wreck OF the Bella. After
some correspondence with Lady Itch