THE TICHBORNE CASE-
{Fnm the Bruce Herald ) . *® r Bom ® time past those sympathetic souls m who believe with Keaealy thatthe Claimant is the victim of Jesuitical injustice _i Per r ecu^lon ’ have been making strenuous efforts for renewing this never-to be-ended wor d-renownod trial; but on the other hand, the law advisers of the Crown and the gentlemen of Scotland Yard have not been idle in acquiring fresh evidence and preparing themSBives for any new course the current of events, orhtwation, take, pur readers, howevei. will learn, with no little astonishment, and no doubt some interest, that our own little Province will supply a fresh and important wit* ness in tl o new trial, it such be gr&tkted." It appeals tnat a much respected fellow colonist Angus Alphonse Macdonald. J.P., of Hokimn Mataura, was a fellow student, friend, and companion of the late Sir Roger 0. D. Xifihborne while at Stoneyhurst andfas actually present, iu company with Lord Bellow, whilst the much disputed operation was performed of tabooing Fir Roger’s arm. On this point the evidence of Lord Bellew wasquitedisttnjßt but much conflicting evidenqe was adduced' on the side of the Claimant, and in this point, and this alone, the case for the Crown was weak- • but the missing link has, we learn, been found and supplied iu the evidence of Mr Macdonald, with whom we are informed the AttorneyOeneral is at present corresponding. ;By ah&xtraordinary coincidence of circumstances, it appears that previous to the departure of Sir Roger for South America the two friends, Me Macdonald and Sir Roger, both gay and fashfen?ble young men, were for a time residing at Foster’s Hotel, London, then and how -dhe rendezvous of the Catholic nobility and lead* mg aristocracy of England. At that time Mr Macdonald was about leaving his native land to embark in extensive pastoral pursuifo/at Jrenola, m South Australia, aud was a 'fatness, on more than one occasion, to an interview between Sir Roger and his solicitor, Mr bos ford. It is understood he can throw Some material light on the contents of the mysterious sealed packet.” It would thus seem that the gods nave decreed against poor Sir Roger, and that, as every end ot the earth, has already.supplied its quota of evidence for or against the Claimant, it falls last, but not least, to the lot of New Zealand to for ever rivet the chaihs round the limbs of Arthur Orton.
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Evening Star, Issue 3801, 30 April 1875, Page 2
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405THE TICHBORNE CASE- Evening Star, Issue 3801, 30 April 1875, Page 2
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