The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-24
Get-Rich-Quick Bubbles That Have Burst
BY HARLEY MATTHEWS
MONEY FROM THE GRAVE

II uO4NL Il NUN
| Some people say it was all as fore
told by a curse uttered over 700 years
before.
| On her death bed in the year 1853,
| Dame Mabel Ticheborne had asked
| that the poor be given a dole of bread
/ outside the castle gate once a year
| If ever the dole was stopped, she
prcphesied, disaster would come upon
| the family.
| For centuries the Tichebornes obey
| ed her wishes. Then in the year
1896, the custom was discontinued
| because of the riotous scenes that ac-t
companied the giving of the dole, it
was said.
| Almost Immediately, some say, the
| fortunes of the family began to de
cline. The baronet died leaving seven
daughters, and the estates and title
passed to a brother. On his death,
James Tieheborne, distant connec-
ton, who had married and lived in
France, succeeded. The same year
the ship Bella" on which his son
Roger was journeying to Jamaica, dis
appeared and was never afterwards
heard of
| The mother was grief-stricken, yet
not hopeless. Long afterwards she
never saw a sailor without question
ing him to see if he could tell her
aught of the Bella She had adver
| tisements asking for news of Roger
| Ticheborne published in papers all
over the world
In the year 1862, her husband died.
and the baronetcy passed to an in
/ FAINT son. Three years later the glad
Mother got a letter from a lawyer OF
! Wagga Wagga, Australia, TO say that
a man who resembled her elder son
was in his town. He was married
and living under the name of Castro,
but man named Boyle an old ser
want of the family had identified him
as the long lost Roger
Joyfully the Mother wrote for her
son to come to her. But the man
Castro showed no hurry TO leave
Wagga Wagga The people there,
midst, made a hero of him, who before
had been only the town butcher. Ev-
> erywhere he ran into debt and raised
money on the strength of his expec-
tations.
:
residents thousands, he went to sgd
ney There he borrowed more money,
promising to repay all with high in
terest when he came into his inheri-
lance.
He landed in England in the year
. 1866. But he did not go straight to
. the Ticheborne Manor. Instead he
. visited secretly the town of Mapping.
His first visit to the Manor, he saw
no one that he knew, but at last he
/ was taken before Lady Ticheborne.
= To her. there was no doubt who this
d man was. He was the son for whom
: she had been waiting all these years
: They talked for a long while about
4 old times. But she soon found that
Roger, born and reared in France, had
: forgotten every word of his French
: Moreover he talked of his grandfather
and other members of the family
/ whom he had never seen, and had for
gotten many with whom he had beer
associated all his childhood. Poor
Roger" she wrote to a friend, "how he
confuses everything, as if in T.;
dream"
. But soon Roger was meeting others
: Old schoolfellows, officers with whom
y he had served in the British Army
servants, relatives, all recognized hin
, as the Roger Ticheborne they hat
d known. If Lady Ticheborne ever has
h any doubts, they soon disappeared
V For day by day, Roger remembered
5 more, and his manners improved HI
/, was always deferential and attentive
r to her, and until he should recover
a his heritage, she allowed him $4,000 :
, year.
The estates alone brought in rent:
Il of more than 100000 year. Rogel
e made claim to them, but the relative;
o of the infant heir refused to give w
l. possession. He was informed thai
o to enforce his claim, he would have tC
n take legal action
} But how? legal battle such as
the other side would make of it, woult
n cost money And all he had was thu
o $4,000 a year Lady Ticheborne allow
e ed him, after which she had little
It for herself
} Soon, all over England people were
d being asked to subscribe to the Tiche
i borne claimants expenses. When ht
was put in possession of his wealthy
e heritage, they were told the money
There was no doubt about the invest
=, ment His mother and 100 witnesse.
/ would swear to him at the trial.
The case was now the talk of Eng
e land. No less than 100000 was re
quired by the attorneys of the clai
e mant. Hundreds of people sent thei
money to them, receiving in return,