FAMOUS CASE REVIVED.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1805, 18 July 1913, Page 7

FAMOUS CASE REVIVED.

CLAIMANT'S "DAUGHTER." HER THREAT TO KILL. Br Tel«2ra.Dhr-Presj Association—OoDTTielit London, July IG. Theresa Tichborne, who represents herself to be a daughter of Arthur Orton, the claimant to the Tichborne estates, appeared in the King's Bench Division of the High Court on a charge of having sent to tho Earl of Granard a letter threatening to murder Miss Denise Greville on the eve of the latter's marriage with Sir Joseph Doughty-Tichborne. Counsel for the prosecution stated that accused had for years annoyed the Tichbornea with begging letters, some verging on blackmail. Twenty-five pounds had been charitably given to her by tho late Sir HenTy Doughty-Tichborne, and she had accepted it as an acknowledgment of a family connection. She had asked Sir Jo'seph to give her ten thousand, and she would not worry him further. Other letters accuscd Lady Doughty-Tichborno of concealing or destroying Sir Henry's will. The accused was found guilty, and sentenced to sir months' imprisonment in tho second division. ECHO OF A FAMOUS IMPOSTURE. According to a cable message to the Sydney "Sun," considerable interest was manifested in the charge made against the daughter of Arthur Orton, the notorious claimant to the Tichborne estates. When the case was first called on at the Bow Street Police Court, the accused, who styled herself Theresa Doughty-Tichborne, protested that she did not intend to do any harm to Miss Greville, her only motive in writing to the Earl of Granard being to attract attention to her case.' In the course of her letter to the Earl, the accused referred to the approaching marriage of "my cousin, Sir Joseph DoughtyTichborne," and continued: ' I have askntl you to use your influence to make them give me some of the money they stole from us, but you do nothing. It is nothing to you if I starve, so long as you and your wife can give parties and flaunt about with people who, if they knew the truth, would be ashamed to know you. You cannot hide any more, for I am making you an accessory before the fact by telling you that I am going to shoot that girl rather than Sir Joseph should marry her, -or they will live on my money. As there is a God in Heaven, I am going to do it."- ~ , ~ . In the late 'sixties, after • the death of the eleventh baron<t, Sir Alfred Joseph Tichborne, the famous Wagea butcher, Thomas Castro, otherwise Arthur Orton, claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, presumpfcive heir to the family estates in England. Sir Roger had sailed for Rio de Janeiro from New York in April, 1854, by the ship Bella, which was lost at sea. Orton's case collapscd completely, and the "claimant," as he was culled, was sentenced to 14 years' - imprisonment for perjury. He died in 1898.