THE TICHBORNE CASE AGAIN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1642, 22 August 1887, Page 3

THE TICHBORNE CASE AGAIN

A NEW DEVELOPMENT. Bather remarkable news has been received In Kumara from a Mr Edward Anoher, formerly a councillor In thvb town, end an hotelkeeper m Greymouth, bat now a resident In Sydney. Mr Anoher was In early life a seaman, and ■hipped at Capetown on May 27th, 1854, on board the .schooner Osprey, Captain Malcolm Carmlohael, bound for Melboorne. On boara the schooner was a young gentleman passenger, a tall, bigboned young fellow, who Bald he had been picked up off a wreck off the coast of Brazil- The schooner arrived m Melbourne on 25tb, and the passenger went op country In 1872. Mr Anoher, then hotelkeeper In Kumara, Baw by tbe papers the particulars of the Tlchborne case, and that the Identity of the Oaprey was questioned. He at once wrote to the Tlchborne claimant's solicitor on the matter, but received no answer. He then did not trouble any more In the matter, »nd eventually wett to reside near Sydney, and accidentally found out lately that a reply had been sent him to hia letter of 1872, but had been ac*dreßßed Kenmara. Australia, instead o' Kumara, New Zealand. He next got a letter from Mr Gal ford Onslow, da'ed September 20tb, 1878, asking him to make a statutory declaration m reply to 18 categorical questions relative to the Osprey, Its crew, •nd the passenger. He put the nutter Into ' the hands of a Sydney solicitor, who made a mull of the affilr, and no farther notice was taken of It ; but laßt January he received a letter dated Southamp ton, September 30. b, J BB6, from Mr G. E. Gray, A solioitor, which, after some travelling about, finally reaohed his present address. The writer urgently eiked for hia oorrect addreas, aa an im portent letter sent him lv 1885 had been returned with " address not known " npon It. The writer aßked him, In the eacred aamei of justice and humanity and m the names of the late Guilford Onslow and Sir Roger Ticbhorne," to assist an innceent and long-suffering man to eßtablith his right." It desired him to make first _ statu ory declaration, and forward It to Quartermalne East, Eeq., laic sheriff of liondon, and then come with all speed to England, for which ample funds were placed at Mr Archer's disposal. It further It-ted tbat Mr John McLay, another seaman on board the Osprey bad seen snd recognised the claimant as the passenger who waa known on board the Oeprey as Mr Tlchbcrne. Mr Ancher, who feels certain he will have no difficulty m identifying the Easaenger who was on the Osprey, if evtr c meets him, has left for England, and promises to send to his friends at Greymouth full particulars of his Interview with the once celebrated clahrant.