The Real Tichborne.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1604, 9 January 1886, Page 2

The Real Tichborne.

Among the young men of title and fortune " coming on " for next London season is Stir Henry Alfred Doughtly Tichborne, the" ". infant ''on whose behalt tlie ever-tq.-be remembered Tichborne. case 'was'- fought and won. The yonthful baronet is noMj itt'his twentieth year, having be^h bora, m 1866! The necessity of defending his property apainstv the Claimant entailed upon his trustees the. enormous expenditure of £120,000 But for which he would haye .boen a much richer man. Even' as things are, he is not JBxact)y . a, pauper. The Ticfcibqrne estates'] lie m , Hampshire, Dorsetshire,' and Bucks, and represents" between' ll;000 and' l2,ooo acres,, the ; K grp.ss v rent-roll amounting to a-tr.ifle%f>ife2B,'ooo%-year when times are good, which, by-the-way they are certainly riot*Ho'W.'~The Claimant meanwhile :is rapidly accomplishing) the .'descent to the ayernus of poverty. When first he abandoned the seclusion of Dartmoor public, meetings were held, at i which he " spouted " of his wrongs.' His ..supporters, however, soon discovered that public interest m the' Tioh borne < case 1 had ; evaporated into thin air. Mbreove|-, with ; I)r iKenealey, Guilford. Onslo^r, and poor old Whalley, all dead as. Queen Anne, and, the "Magna. Charta Assbciations" (founded ih-tlie' fitit'insta^ce 1 to bljtaitt^the release of Sir!E6ger), devoted 1 to ; Mrs Weldon, there iseemed to be \no chance of reviving it. Curio.sity , attracted a few people to the meetings at first, but the audiences quickly fell away to nothing. Then "Sir. Roger" tried the stage. .' If the old man had retained^ his fat paunch " and burly appearance this might have answeredV The puplic would then haye ,recpgni ( sed , him,, if not personally, at least from pictures ancl photographs, b-it the grey, grave, and rather aristocratic -no bleman from' Dartmoor^"' who 1 appeared' b«f ore them was quite a stranger, had not >an. ounce of |the old "-Sir Roger" about him. The theatre failing the Claimant' descended to the music halls and earned a precarious livelihood,, '• 6peakin"; a few words " to fbugti, and bot always complimentary, audiehcea. Now I fear he ;has fallen lower still, is, m fact, c ! showing himself, at; a cheap waxwork exhibition m. Liverpool. Poor old fraud, one feels sorry for 1 him.. The Claimant's sons have enlisted mi the army, ' using the name of Tichborne, and one of the daughters is playing a small part m the melodrama "/Alone m Loridoh," :the Olympic Theatre. — London -correspondent 'Dunedin Star.