A GREYMOUTH WITNESS IN THE TICHBOBNE CASE.

Evening Star, Issue 2944, 26 July 1872, Page 2

A GREYMOUTH WITNESS IN THE TICHBOBNE CASE.

Even Greymonth can claim to have its name associated with the Tichfcorne mystery. After the arrival of the last mail the Gni/ Rhrr Argus printed an extract from the t'Airopmn Mail, in which it was stated that another witness connected with the Titchbornc case had “cropped up.” The following was part of the paragraph referred to : —“ Captain Carmichael, who is a man under liity years of age, states that the Osprey, under his command, sailed from Glasgow for Melbourne in January, 1554, leaving Kothcsay Bay on February 12. The Osprey remained ton days at the’ Cape, and left in June, after taking on board a Scotchman, two Irishmen, a Dutchman, and a Dane, and an English gentleman, who, Captain Carmichael supposes, may have been the Tichhorne claimant. The stranger stated that ha had been in the army and navy. Ou the voyage they amused themselves by catching albatrosses—a pastime of which the young gentleman was very fond. The captain, it appears, from his imprrfcct knowledge other than Gaelic, was not able to talk much with the English gentleman, who chielly conversed with one of the crew —now the captain of a sloop engaged in the coasting, trade.” Mr Ancher, hotel keeper of Greymonth, on reading this paragraph, had reason to identify himself with the Dane referred to, seeing that ho is a Dane, and that in 1854 he sailed from the Cape for Melbourne in a vessel called the Osprey, aud commanded by a captain whose name was Carmichael, That the vessel mentioned in tho paragraph and the vessel by which Mr Ancher sailed were one and the same, is more certain from the fact that the description given of Captain Carmichael exactly coincides with the character of the captain of tke Osprey by which Mr Anchor came to Melbourne, and the dates of departure and arrival also coincide. Mr Ancher corroborates the statement of Captain Carmichael that among those who took passage by the Osprey to Melbourne there was a young Englishman whose appearance and occupations on board ship agree with the descriptions given of young Tichborue, or, at least, with the descriptions given of the person who pretends to have been young Tichborue at that particular period. Captain Carmichael, it may be mentioned, “cropped up” in one of the New Zealand ports a few years ago—namely, in Port (.halm is. He was then commander of a lino ship, in which he made what he called “aferyline passitch” of only a few bundled days from London docks. He w a 3 more intimately acquainted with the Gaelic language than with any others, ancient or modern, and the most 'ikely circumstance, among all the circumstances referred to in the paragraph which appears in the home paper, is that not until two months ago did he ever hear of the celebrated Tichborue case. The Argus adds that Mr Ancher has communicated to the legal representatives of the Tichborue claimant such facts as he knows regarding the Osprey and the young “English gentleman” who was his fellow-, passenger to Melbourne.