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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 56, 6 March 1875, Page 4

- ' ™ The Tichbobne Claimant. — " Never was there a case,," Bays the World, " in which the fickleness of the public interest showed to greater advantage than that of Mr Thomas Castro, who, alter holding a position of unexampled nototiely for very many months, has finally retired into seclusion, not to be heard of again — unless his death should chance to be recorded — for 13 years. The indictment of Dr Kenealy at the Old Bailey last week was, it was understood, a ' put-up job' on the part "of the Claimant's friends to hring that bulky individual once more into notice; and wo were threatened with a reproduction of the whole of the Tichbornecase. Moreover, the authorities had been warned tbat a demonstration would be made outside the court in honor of Mr The mas Castro, and were on the aleit to prevent any riot. The result proved that no precautions were neceeeary. No crowd surrounded the Newgate gates to welcome their foimer idolj only, as he was being conveyed up the staircase to the room usually occupied by the grand jury to wait his summoDS two or three old women murmured plaintively, 'Poor Sir Roger!' and tried to kiss his pendulous checks. He was not wanted, imd was driven ba(k to Wilbank un-

recognized and in silence. On Thurs' day night in charge of two warders, he was conveyed to Daitmoor. He might have taken farewell of his wife, but he declined. r J he game was up. and he knew it. The Editor of the Ea'enswill Independent was not more profoundly disgusted at not being recognised and 'ovated ' than was Mr Thotnaß Castro. He has decreased in weight by Bst. since his relegation to Millbank, and has conducted himself well there. During the next eleven years, while employed in the tailors' shop, or in outdoor work among the gray tors ! of the bitterly bleak Dartmoor, he will have further opportunity for reformation. But henceforth he is as dead to the world as if he had been buried beneath the paving slabs af the 'Birdcage Walk ' in Newgate." ■j. ._■■.. . .. ._■»