THE TICHBORNE MYSTERY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1939, 9 December 1884, Page 2

THE TICHBORNE MYSTERY.

Thk following relating to the Tichborne mystery appears in the Gundagai Herald. The writer of the letter i^ George Edwauls, ot Cooba Creek, Claiendon, who is spoken of by the Rev. J. 11. Williams, a local clergyman, as an honest, hard-working and trustwoithy man. Edwards &ay-> he has continually written to the AttorneyGeneral about the matter, but f Ailing ho got a reply, wrote to the Gundagai Herald as follows: "2nd August, 1884. To Mr Editor.— Dear sir, — I am sorry to take up so much of your valuable time and space of your valuable paper, but seeing so many different accounts of Mr Ciesbwell being Arthur Oi ton, which I beg to inform you and the public that he is not, for the real Sir Arthur Orton is Thomas Castro, the Claimant in England, which I have known since September, 1842, and all of his family as well as I know my own patents. The ship that I was apprentice in, our owners used to deal with Oitons for meat, and I used to bo the one that used to go for the meat when our ship was in port, and I became so much acquainted with the Ortona that I iespec<- il them as much as if they were my own family. My first voyage was, to Valparaiso and homo to London. My second one w^ to Hobart Town, Launceston, and home t" London. Edmond and Arthur (hton used to sell the meat in the harness cait and see all the live stock and vegetables on board before the ship sailed. My third vov.ig" was to Sydney to Guella for sugar for AH bourne and Sydney. We discharged on; sug from fi Sydney and took in ballast, as wo were chattered to go to another part in the colonies, which I decline to mention the name of at present. When we an iwd at this poit there was a laige ship lying there, barque rigged, which I decline to mention her name at present. We discharged our ballast, and begin to take in cargo for London when one afternoon about 2 o'clock the boat belonging to this barque came alongside of us. A young man came up the side and jumped down on. our ship's deck, and to my surprise who should it be but young Arthur Orton, when I shook hands with him and said, " Good gracious, Arthur what brought you here." He shook hands with the chief officer, and then went and shook hands with the captain. Ho gave the chief officer a letter to take h mie to his mother, and sent private messages by me home to his parents. I decline at present to &ay what situation he had on board or the chip's name, for private reasons, but his «hip sailed for London, loaded with wheat in bulk, about five weeks before we did. My ship sailed for London about five weeks after him, and we arrived home all safe. When I went up to Orton's, tlie butcher*, to my surprise I found lur ship hadn't arrived, nor never did arrive. We loaded back again for the colonies. When we ai lived in the colony there we ascertained the fate of his ship. She was struck with a heavy snow squall ; the cargo of wheat, being in bulk, shifted, and she went over on her beam ends, and she was taken into Valparaso a complete wreck in distress. Now, sir, that is the ill-fated ship that there was no much talk about. The next time I saw Arthur Orton was on the goldfields in Victoria with another man, and the man was young Roger Tichborne. They ciriedon a fine game there, and had to clear out. The police were after them. The next time I saw Arthur Oiton in person was in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, as Thomas Castro, the butcher, whon. be acknowledged to m.c there that old Whiton. the ship butcher, in Wappiner, England, was his father. I don't care who reads this. It is the truth, which I could prove before a judge and jury. If Captain Barry, or whatever might bs his name, swears that Cresswell is Arthur Orton, and it was his first voyage when he went to Hobart Town with him in 1850, he is greatly mistaken, and wrong, and so is Edmnud and Charles Orton, too, in their brother. I have every reason to believe if I went to a, certain parish, a certain pajt in the oolonias, and got a aortain document, that I could make ft look rather blue for them whom Arthur Orton was in company with. First, he was about between 19 and 20 years of age, and I was about 18. Dear Sir, lam sorry for taking up so much of your valuable pape?, hut any person wishing to communioate to me can do no by writing to the editor of the Gundagai Herald."

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