The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
FAMOUS CASE REVIVED
An Insane Patient May Be ST
Roger Iichborne.
RICH PLANTER MURDERED
Frank Corr wal < led i1y Samoan Ma
tives While Aslsep-WheatC Crop Out
look Is F4vorabls-Tho Years
Mineral Gu put.

Vancouver B. c., Dec. 2s-The famous
story of the Tichborne claimant Is
revived by advices brought from Aus
tralia on the steamer Aorangi. The
government of New South Wales Is SO
impressed with the probability that an
inmate of the Parramatta insane asy-
lum, known as William C. 'resswell,
may be Sir Roger Tichborre .hat It
has appointed a commission to inquire
into the antecedents of Cress Tell and
to investigate the circums. an.es &C n
nected with his Incarceration. Ittu-
lar opinion in Sydney is favora Ole to
the claim that Cresswell Is really Itch
borne and some members of the COM
mission are strongly of the same be-
lief The report of Drs. Pick5urn end
Devlin, who were denuted to examine
William Cresswell, with a view 20 de-
Gliding whether he bore marks known
to have been on the body OF ST. Roger
Charles Tichborne, has been presented
to the parliament Of New South Wales.
Twenty-Five physical marks OF the real
Roger Tichborne were enumerated for
the benefit Of the examining rtyaitI ans
and these two doctors found that c SIS
well possessed practically all O. these
marks and characteristics.
IleTe are only Two III .sS III
which CressweIl falls to cores ,ond
according to the evidence of the doc
tors, to signs which are ad ni--el to
be borne by the missing Tichborne,
one OF these being that there a,e no
marks as of bleeding cuts IN Cess
wells ankles. But the examining ply
sicians point out that such marks
might easily have been 1bliterated on
the legs after long years The other
and apparently the more serious dis
crepancy Is that while Tichborae was
five feet eight and 1alf incaes in
Neight, Cresswell is five feet six and
three-quarters inches. but the physi-
clans say Cresswell is now an oil man
and withered. The shrinkage in
senility,- and probably IS years ego
Cresswell may have been five feet
eight and a half inches in height. The
tattoo marks which existed on Itch
borne do not exist on Cresswall, hut
there is wound in the exact locality
which might be that of a ca Itery di-
rected to the eXtirpation of tattoo
ing. TIE medical experts say hat so
many marks Of similarity could hardly
be put down to coincide nee. The in
vestigation was incomplete when the
Aorangi sailed from Sydney ~ Dec. 8.
Details Of the murder at his Sane an
home on Nov IL of Frank Cornwall,
Samoan group, are brought b. the
Aorgangi. He was murdered while he
was asleep by natives iii-aeH for
eigners Rave felt secure in tfrre- of
peace, because the Samoaas have luok
ed unon foreigners lives as sacred sEd
would never approach waite .oen with
the deliberate purpose of harming
them. no matter what acgravation
there might have been. But this feel
ing toward foreigners has changed, and
although young Cornwall was generally
nopular. he is only one of several prom
inent foreigners whose lives have been
threatened.
The prospects of the Australian
wheat harvest for the season of $780,
1900 are more favorable on the score of
aggregate yield than during any pre-
vious year New South Wales alone
will have 100000 bushels available for
export.
The value of the mineral exported
from Tasmania during November
amounted to ss00,e00 one third more
than in the corresponding mont of lest
year. New Zealand's export of gold is
80, 900 600 greater than last year Her
premier saws that he Is absolutely oD-
posed to New Zealand Joining the Aus
tralian federation The New Zealand
government believes all the colonies
should federate for defense and for one
or two other purposes.
Concerning the proposed fast service
to San Francisco and the mooted
changes in the Australasian steamer
service, the premier of New South
Wales has cent the following communi-
CO ton to the premier of New Zealand:
II informed you on the 18th inst that