AN AMAZING STORY.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1924, Page 3

AN AMAZING STORY.

YK lIhOIiNK CASK ACAIN. ("Sydney Sun" Cables). {Received this day at 9.2.3 a.m.) LONDON, Sep. 29. The newspaper “ The People " publishes an amazing story by Theresa Doughty Tiehborue, aged .31. who in October, 1929, was sentenced to 12 mouths’ imprisonment for sending threa telling letters to Sir (ieorge Lewis, the well-known solicitor. The woman is (he daughter of Arthur Orton, the Tielibnrm; elaimaol. She has just been released. Believing herself dying in gaol, she wrote to the Home Office, revealing that her father's alleged secret was confided to her in 1883. This secret was the statement :

“I am Roger Tichburiie. Arthur Orton, whom I am supposed to lie, was my confederate in many exploits in Australia. I shut him dead at \\ nggn, in IStifi, during a quarrel in which lie dlireatelied to expose me.” She explains that her father’s visit In Orton’s relatives at Mapping was for the purpose of discovering if the family had been apprised of the murder. She adds that she wanted to reveal his secret when she was on trial in 1919

for al tempi iog. b. I I rl the Tii hborne lamily, Imt her sister dissuaded her. She acted as hei father’s seeretary on his lecturing tour, but left him because she disapproved of some of his habits. A! leewards she became an actress.