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Show THE SCHOOKEli "OSPREY." A Carious Story Cou firming Kvidouce ot tlie Tlcbboran Claluiuut. Sn Francisco, 25. A short time ago the Call published an item relative to the schooner Oaprey, eaid to have picked up the Tiohborne claimant ofl' the Brazilian coast. The article was read by an old man, Oliver Perry, now a prisoner in the state penitentiary, pen-itentiary, who makea a statement published in the Call this morning, to the e fleet that he was second mate aud carpenter of the three-masted schooner Osprty, which sailed from New York en February, 1854 for San Francisco; that some time in April or May following they picked up five men in a boat ofi the coast of Brazil, three Englishmen, one Norwegian and one mulatto. One of tbe Englishmen Eng-lishmen was called Tick. He theught it was a nickname. He considered him an overgrown boy, about 20 years old. He spoke English .with a German Ger-man or French accent, and said bis father was a lord or something of that sort, and he had been in South America traveling tor pleasure. The Osprey, alter coming here, went to Australia, aud he supposed tbat Tick went on her, but was not certain. The captain's name was Owen. Parry is now over 70 years of age, and hia remembrance of the cLrcumatancej oame to him by degrees in the course of conversation, tie knew little of theTicbbarne case, having been in the more unsettled pertiona of tha Pacific coast for tho past fifteen or twenty years. He says he met Captain Cap-tain Owen afterwards at Idaho city, in 18G3 or 1861. Parties who have known Perry say that he was always considered a reliable man, and got into the penitentiary more through misfortune and whisky than dishonesty. |