ECHO OF TICHBORNE CASE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2792, 2 October 1924, Page 3

ECHO OF TICHBORNE CASE.

SUPPOSED CONFESSION BY ORTON. London, September 29. The'newspaper “The People” publishes mi amazing story by Thersa Doughty Tichbomc, aged 51, who, in October, 1923, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for sending threatening letters to Sir George Lewis, a well-known solicitor. The woman is a daughter of Arthur Orton, the “Tiehbome claimant.” She has just been released, and believing herself dying in gaol, she wrote to the Home Office revealing her father’s alleged “secret,” which was confided to her in 1885. This “secret” was the following statement: “1 am Roger Tichborne. Arthur Orton, whom I am supposed to be, was my confederate in many exploits in Australia. T shot him dead at Wagga in 1866 during a quarrel, in which he threatened to expose me.” She explains that her father’s visit to Orton’s relatives at Wapping was for the purpose of discovering if the family had been apprised of the murder. She adds that she wanted to reveal her secret when she was tried in 1913 of attempting to shoot a member of the Tichborne. family, but her sister dissuaded her. She acted as her father’s secretary on a lecturing tour, but left him because she disapproved of some of bis habits. Afterwards she became an actress.