CHESS WELL Oil ORTON!

Dunstan Times, Issue 1110, 10 August 1883, Page 3

CHESS WELL Oil ORTON!

The Wangaratbi correspondent of n the Herald says ; 1 lam th.-t when Mr Gordon I unean, a most (> resp'-ctable resident «'f Benalla, was *, recently in Sydney, be had a wish to tl interview the lunatic Dresswell, who Sl is now an inmate of an institntion in the neighbourhood of the Paramatta. „ Mr Dune in in his youthful days was hj a resident of the east end of London, hj and was in the habit when a lad. of vi-iting Arthur Orton’s fathers ,j butchers shop at Wapping. In one of a Ids c ils at the shop he accident ally V cut Arthur Orton’s hand when play- £ fully handing a knite. He meant to c use the back of the knife, but made a ra stake by using the sharp side. The 1 cut was rather a deep one, and one •? that would not be effaced for a long , dime, if at all. This was said at the e time of the occurrence. Mr Duncan m was sliQwu.iutoa yard with some •one T hundred anrl tifoy others in the iustu I j tution at Paramatta, and after some Dr short examination he .said to the 1 keeper, ‘ That,is the. raair whose hand Lent over thirty years ago’ (The •’j man he picked out was Creswell, or 1 rather the man who. goes under-that i name), ‘ and if it is, he must’have the cut mark • still over - the ' back of his , hau.ij’ and sure enough the/-mart - was , (Ji ess well, and the markkas'there. . Mr Bickeiton, the Jlayi-r, and Conn; cillor loud, of' Wangaratt i. testily to the facts ■ Mr Duncan lias no hesitation in stating that t ! -e man who g-:es under the name of Gresswcd in the Paramatta institution is no other than Arthur Orton, the butcher, of Wapping. i.omion.