THE GENUINE ARTHUR ORTON

Dunstan Times, Issue 1154, 11 April 1884, Page 3

THE GENUINE ARTHUR ORTON

A Mr Walter Kossey, of East Richmond, sends the following communication to the Melbourne Herald As the Tichborne Claimant will be released from prison this year, the genuine Arthur Orton can lie produced in twenty four hours (it need be) for LiOllO. Hisownwnrls to me are that he will go to England atonce f or that am mint and clear up the mystery. He agiees to a letter to the de cnption the Claimant gave of him at bis trial, and is the only link now wanted to complete the ease (no conm ction whatever with the lunatic Willi im Cres well). The Tichborne Claiman ap(>eired to have said at his trial, that as he wished to see the country, he was engagsd as stock driver in his own mini i bv William Foster, of Melbourne, upon ihe day he landed from the Osp-ey on 29th July, 1553. If he had said Wiliam Frost, it would have been Correct, and he would have never then been drifted into Arthur Orton, as Arthur Orton was engaged as smck-o river by William Foster, of Boisd»le. Gippsland, in the com--06 cement of 1856, in Ins own name, as knowing him whe i in Hobart Town, hj iving lalten charge of *ii< shinmonts of cittle at tout place. I knew Arthur Orton perfectly well in W .pping and in Melbourne. He '8 50 years of age this month, March, 1884. He resembles the. Claimant in the face only. His assumed itara ■ has confused the whale cas". I have been in communication with him this last six years, or since 1 traced him fmu M dbourne. At the time the glevvar i of th" Osprey on-ught Roger iichiorne, the carpen er and sailor of the late Bella, to Sand ridge in the late Bella’s j illyhoat that saved them from a watery grave, myself. Captain Charles Chessell, raastershipbuild-r, and Li-utenant Crawford, then police magistrate of S.andriige, were present and were greatly interested in Roger Tichborne. A crowd gathered around them. After arriving in Melbourne R «ger Tichborne. carpenter and sailor, stooped at the Royal Highlander Hotel, Flinders street, opposite the whatf. William Frost, proprietor; and, through Roger Tichborne narticnlarly wish ing to see the country, William Frost engaged him as stock-1 liver in his own name. Roger Tichborne, for James Connell, Esq., of Kew, an extensive station owner at Ojp..stand, >-y giving him a letter to Air Connell. Early next morning Tichborne and the two other ram left for Kew, which was called the country at that time. and. on arriving at Kew, Tichborne followed a shepherd with sheep to Mr C-nnell’s, and the two men left him tor the diggings, »n-i, on arrivin at Mr Con noil’s, arrangements were made, and ho left on horseback to the station he was directed lo go to. ' Soon afterwards he changed his n-niie to Thomas D - Castro, as no' wishing to -e know i, and in the year 1856 he mot .Arthur Orion at Cargo Station. Uippslan I, recognis ng him as the butcher that came, to the Kensington Barracks, London, toorders for meat for Messrs Cook and Slater, who had the contract to supp'y the military there with meat-. At the time Tichborne was an officer there, being then hetw-en 21 ami 22yt!ars of age, in the yea-a 1849 an ■ 1830, an I Arthur O ton betw -tin 15 and 16 years of age (see the Argus of 16tb .Septern her, 1876).”