The Dickinson press., 1914-11-07

Cu0 Custody OIL tu0 1udN W1l1CIl ldCci
resulted in the promotion of his fight
for the 100000.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
A famous writer in the Saturday
Evening Post of September 25th,
1911, said: "When one touches the
mystery of human identity he seizes
upon a golden propriety of romance"
Readers of the PRESS have in
mind the Russell will trial which &C.
the Middlesex court at Boston
for nearly 200 days and Dan Russell
who claimed to be the long lost Dan
lei Blake Russell was declared to be
James Rousseau. .
The Tichborne case of England is
probably the most famous identity
case in all the world and a report Of
same from the Saturday Evening
Post is given herewith:
Sir James Tichborne belonged to
one of the oldest families in England.
He held his lands by title anterior to
the landing of William the Con-
queror. He married a descendant of
the titled family of Bourbon Cont.
Sir James could not resist the lure
Of Paris and he and his family re-
sided for the most part in the
French capital. Here Sir Roger
Charles Tichborne was born in Janu-
airy, 1929. He lived in Paris until
he was sixteen. Later he was sent
to a Catholic seminary at Stonyhurst,
England. Here he concluded his
slight education. Soon afterward he
entered the army as an officer in the
Sixth Carbineers. 1t is related that
about this time he fell in love with
his charming cousin, Katherine
afterward Lady Radcliffe. But the
young woman's parents resisted the
alliance and Sir Roger, forgetting
the advice of Chateaubriand and be-
lieving that a new land would cure
him of his fancy, crossed to France,
made his adieus to his family and on.
the fourth of March, 1853, sailed
from Havre to Valparaiso.
He remained in South American,
now and then in correspondence with
his family until 1854, when he sailed
in the Bella from Rio de Janeiro to
New York. A short time before the
vessel sailed, in a letter to his family,
he expressed his intention of staying
abroad for several years longer.
The Bella never came into the port
of New York; she vanished from the
high seas. Her insurance was paid
and the ship marked off as lost at
sea. Some four or five days after
she had sailed her long-boat was
up.
It appeared that the young. Sir
Roger had made a will before leaving
England. Sir James accepted the
current belief that his son was dead
and his will was proved, but Lady
Tichborne, with a mothers tenacity
of hope, refused to believe that her
son bod been lost at sea. She held to
that idea, and when Sir James died,
in 1862, she advertised in a London
paper for her son, Sir Roger. This
eight years after the sailing of
the Bella.
About this time an enterprising
person named Cubit opened what he
a missing Friends" office at
in Australia, and by chance
copy of his advertisement came to
the attention of Lady Tichborne. She
wrote to Cubit and he advertised for
the lost heir Of the Tichborne estate.
Now it happened that this adver-
tisement of Cubit came to the at
tention of an attorney named Gibbs,
and the thing remained in the law
yer's memory. One day he saw a
man smoking a pipe. This pipe at
tracted his attention-he stopped and
observed it; on the bowl of it were
the initials R. C. r. Gibbs had an
inspiration; he made some Inquiries;
he learned that the smoker was an
E~nglishman and that he had said that
he belonged to a noble family and
was the heir to estates. He observed
the mans ~gentlemanly carriage and
behavior and finally he went to him
and said boldly that he had discov-
cred his secret-he was the lost Sir
Tichborne. The man of the
pipe, who bore the name Of Castro,
admitted that Gibbs was
Gibbs at once wrote to Cubit
and Cubit advised Lady Tichborne
that her son was found.
The Dowager Immediately replied.
In her correspondence she gave some
of her sons life and certain
p~eculiarities by which he could be
recognized, and she said that an old
servant named Boyle would meet Sir
when he arrived. Cubit ad-
vised the lost heir to reply to his
mothers letters and he did, signing
r. G. T. with a peculiar mark &c.
Lady Tichborne sent two hundred
pounds and the lost Sir Roger sailed
for England. When he arrived he
found a black man in the hotel, whom
he Immediately addressed as Boyle.
The old servant welcomed him as
the lost Sir Roger and adhered to.
him to the day of his death. The
claimant went with Boyle to the
neighborhood Of the Tichborne es-
tates, remained for some time in this
vicinity and then crossed to Paris to
meet his mother. The interview be-
tween Lady Tichborne and this man
took place in a hotel in Paris. and
when it was over the Dowager de-
that he was her missing son,
Sir Roger.
The claimant explained that he had
sailed on the Bella; that after the
wreck of that ship he had been picked