THE TICHBORNE CASE AGAIN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1625, 25 August 1887, Page 3

THE TICHBORNE CASE AGAIN.

Bather remarkable news bas been Received in Kumara from a Mr Edward Ancher, formerly a councillor in that town, and an hotelkeeper in Greymouth, but now a resident in Sydney. Mr Ancher was in early life a seaman, and shipped at Capetown on May 27th, 1854, on board the schooner Osprey, Captain Malcolm Carmichael, bound for Melbourne. On hoard the schooner was a young gentleman passenger, a tall, big-boned, young fellow, who said he had been picked np off a wreck off the coast of .Brazil. The schooner arrived in Melbourne on 25th, and the passenger went up country in 1873. Mr Ancher, then hotelkeeper in Kumara, saw by the papers the particulars of the Tichhorne case, and that the identity of the Osprey was questioned. He at once wrote to the Tichhorne claimant’s solicitor on the matter, hut received no answer. He then did not trouble any more in the matter, and eventually went to reside near Sydney, and accidentally found out lately that a reply had been sent to bis letter of 1872, hut had been addressed Kenmara, Australia, instead of Kumara, New Zealand. He next got a letter from Mr, Guilford Onslow, dated September 20th, 1878, asking him to make a statutory declaration in reply to 18 categorical questions relative to the Osprey, its crew, and the passenger. He put the matter into the hands of a Sydney solicitor, who made a mull of the affair, and no further notice was taken of it; hut January he received a letter dated ■jutbampton, September 30th, 1886, *from Mr G. E. Gray, which, after some travelling about, finally reached his present address. The writer urgently asked for his correct address, as an important letter sent him in ■ had been returned with “ address IKiot known” upon it. The writer asked him in the sacred names of justice and humanity, and in the names of the late Guilford Opslow apd Sir jisger Tichbprne, to assist an innocent and long-suffering man to estab hsh his right. It desired him to make first a statutory declaration, and send it to Qoartermaine -Bast, Bsq., late

sheriff of London, and then come with all speed to England, for which ample funds were placed at Mr Anchor's disposal. It further stated that Mr John McLay, another seaman on board the Osprey had seen and recognised the claimant as the passenger who was known on board the Osprey as Mr Tichborne. Mr Anchor, who feels certain he will hare no difficulty in identifying the passenger who was on the Osprey, if ever he meets him, has left for England, and promises to send to his friends at Qreymouth full particulars of his interview with the once celebrated claimant.