The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1883-08-25 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

THE CLAIMANT.  The Owens and Murray Advertiser, an Australian paper, has the following :--A Mr. Gordon Duncan, of Benalla, in this colony, was recently in Sidney, and during his visit went to inspect the Government Lunatic Asylum at Paramatta. Mr. Duncan states that when a youth he lived in the Eastern part of London, and was frequently in old Mr. Orton's butcher's shop at Wapping. In one of his visits he accidentally out Arthur Orton's hand with a knife. He says that the cut was a deep one, not likely to be effaced for a long time. Mr. Duncan, on the occasion of his visit to the asylum at Parramatte, was shown into a yard in which were some 150 patients, and after a short examination of them he told the keeper, pointing to a particular " That is a man whose hand I cut over thirty years ago, end if it be he, he must have the out mark still on the back of his hand." " Sure enough," says the reporter, "the mark was there." The man thus pointed out is an inmate of the asylum, who has for years passed by the name of Cresswell, who has long since been asserted to be Arthur Orton, and who is now positively recognised as Arthur Orton by Mr. Duncan. Messrs. Bickerton and Sharland, of Wangaratta, it is said, can farther testify to these facts. The identification of the lunatic, Cresswell, at present confined in Paramatta Lunatic Asylum, Sydney, New South Wales, as Arthur Orton, having been thoroughly established to the satisfaction of the Claimant's frieeds, Mr. Edmund Kimber, the Claimant's solicitor, has been instructed by the London Tiohborne Release Association to forward the necessary funds to Charles Orton, who is at present staying with a man named Ekford, an ex IT ember of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, for the purpose of bringing the lunatic to London. On his (Cresswell's) arrival in England Mr. Kimber will take the necessary steps for the reopening of the Tichborne case.  At Croydon, on Monday, James Cole, labourer, was remanded on a eharge of the murder of his son, a boy four years of age. It is alleged that Cole seized the child by the heels, and dashed his brains out against a wall, _ _  The result of Sligo election was made known on Monday. Mr. Lynch, the Parnellite candidate, polled 1,545 votes; while Mr. O'Hara, the Conservative candidate, received W 33. The former was thus elected by a majority of 562. Captain Curtis, late of the 9th Lancers, atld a magistrate for Sussex, was fined £5 and costs at Weobley, on Monday, for assaulting his tailor, a man named Bradford. The assault consisted of pointing a loaded gun at the complainant, and threatening to shoot him. A disturbance took place on Monday at Bainbridge, county Down, at the eviction of a farmer named Reushawe. Several shots were fired, and two police-officers were wounded one in the stomach and the other in the knee. Renshawe was arrested on suspicion of firing the shots. Two young men, named Thomas F. Callen and William Whelan, were charged at Dublin, on Monday, with using threatening language towards Francis Carey. brother of the murdered informer. The case was not pressed by the Crown, and the prisoners were therefore only ordered to find sureties for their good behaviour.