THE ORTONS.

Dunstan Times, Volume 640, Issue 640, 24 July 1874, Page 3

THE ORTONS.

The following is an extract from a letter which has lately been received in Manchester : -

“When I was in Singapore, Mr Smith told me a curious thing. Ho said ho had heard at Government House a gentleman, who had just come out, talk of theTichborne trial, and ho said ho had often been in Court, and had begun to doubt if the Claimant were an impostor, as ho thought it impossible to have sustained so long a raise claim, and that, if he had forgotten his French, he had very quickly picked up the manners of a gentleman, and so on. Well, a few days afterwards this gentleman was in the well-known general emporium called Little’s. ‘ Good heavens ! Who is that ?’ said the gentleman to a friend. ‘ That's Captain Orton, commanding a coasting steamer ; a sou of old Orton, the Wapping butcher,’ was the reply. The gentleman sail I : ’I thought it was the Claimant, or his ghost.’ And he now swears that, in his own mind, he has not the slightest doubt they are brothers. Mr ■Smith says the likeness is wonderful, and any photograph of the Claimant would pass for a photograph of Captain Orton.”