THIS ORTONS.

Evening Star, Issue 3554, 14 July 1874, Page 3

THIS ORTONS.

The following is an extract from a letter which has just been received in Manchester ;

When I was in Singapore, Mr Smith told Bpe a curious thing. He said he had heard at Government House a gentlemau, who had just come out, talk of the Tichborne trial and he said he had been often in court, and had begun t© doubt if the claimant were an impostor as he thought it impossible to have sustained so long a false claim, &c., and th.it if he had forgotten his French, he had wonderfully quickly pick'd up the manners of a gentleman, and so on. Well, a few days afterwards this gentleman was in the wellknown general emporium called Little’s, when a man came in to make some purchases. Good heavens! who is that?” said the gentleman to a friend. “That’s Captain ° rtl commanding a coasting steamer, a son of old Orton, the Wapping butcher,” was the reply. The gentleman said “ I thought it was the claimant <>r his ghost.” And be now swears that in his min i he has not the slightest doubt they are brothers. Mr Smith says the likeness is wonderful, and any photograph ef the claimant would pass for a photograph of Captain Orton.