Show THE CLAIMANTS OASE CASK ALLEGED SIR ROGER GOING TO ENGLAND BULAND these last two or three weeks has been rather eventful for the alleged sir ra roger ger or r as toe english papers call him 11 the tie lalmant claimant 11 his ticket of I 1 leave ea v expired expire tuesday week last lie he h has as been t thrown rown out of work he has had encouraging advices advises from england there is ia money there to carry on tile the case there is an abundance of new testimony and a little baby has been added to his bis little family one 0 ne way and another these have been the most eventful two weeks jae be has had bad since rhe he left england A anaw naw york sun au reporter climbed up taree enree fl 11 gats of stairs to sir Rop rogers lodgings bir rozer koser occupied three little rooms witti wita his wife and baay the living roona room I 1 io ato which the visitor was invited wa barely f furnished air but scrupulously neat and clean mrs sat near tile the stove dangling her baby the baby was dangling data gling the attachment attach me antof of a nursing n u rs bottle ot tie sir roger sat in his shirt sleeves ieee by the window dangling a large wooden pipe THE CLAIMANT ArMAST CL i it was proved at the great trial that sir riger before ile he leit left england in 1853 was an excess me user of tobacco Toe claimant seems to keep up the practice ile he might be stouter it he did not smoke su so much mrs tichborne is only 22 years old and look evea that she is a sprightly and good looking young woman a brunette with a slightly jewish cast of features As miss nellie 11 the charming soubrette and male impersonator she was a success on variety variety stage 1 I 1 am going bac back to england eagland as soon as I 1 can get money enough to take us over sa d the claimant 1 I expect to go within a month I 1 have over one li hundred undred new witnesses of importance for example in the finding of the jury that convicted me the jury said 11 we tind and that the defendant is arthur orton orion now I 1 will produce arthur orton in court I 1 will prove his bis identity by over twenty unimpeachable witnesses I 1 will prove that tile the airy was packed I 1 will prove that the chief witnesses on the other side were paid 1000 or more each in bribes I 1 will convince the world that I 1 am who pam i ana sir roger ccarles doughty baronet rightful awni owner of the tichborne and doughty estates my first step at ep will be to appear at the bar of the house of commons andesk the house to annul the act of parliament known as the tichborne and douglay estate act of 1874 1 the object of this act was to bar all I 1 urther further proceedings on my part my next step will be tu to go into the court of probate and ask tor for the keiu statement ut my will proved by vincent gosford in 1855 when I 1 went away in 1853 1 I left a will and named gasford and add mr air slaughter as ad decu t tire t ra I 1 shall ask to have my will rela rein stalled placed d again on the books on the ground sir lr roger tichborne Is still alive and that iam I 1 am he be the plain issue will then be the question of my identity this reopens the whole case the battle will be fought in the court of probate in case I 1 win I 1 SIM simply ly go and take possession under mider favorable circumstances tile the case may reach a hearing hearick by november axt 1 do you propose to prosecute e any boda for bribery or perjury yes and that will be the he most sensational part of it I 1 will begin criminal proceedings against mr thomas of the treasury D department artmont art ment and inspectors inspector 8 dark clark and 7 williamson illiamson of the scotland yard detective foice I 1 will have them arrested for conspire acy to pack a j jury ary I 1 la Is it true that a lady in england has promised you money to tight fight the case yes she has spent already it was through gla her efforts that arthur orton was discovered the lady is miss georgina baring a partner in the rich banking firm of barine ba rine brothers lord ashburton and lord North northbrook brook are coast aa of miss mias baring she has promised to carry on tile the case the money is to unused be used purely fr for the case the magna charte association has for the same purpose the association was an outgrowth crowth of the trial its lull full title is the bourne vindication and magna charta association it has members who pay penny subscriptions to the treasury 1 I was found guilty on two indictments for perjury one for swearing I 1 was sir roger tichborne and another tor for swearing I 1 was not arthur orton and was eiven the maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment for each offense feuse of one oae term to begin when the other ended the jury declared me to be arthur orton arthur orton since august has been an inmate of a government lunatic asylum at new south wales he is held as a criminal lunatic I 1 spent searching for him during the trial barrister jenne who conducted the search for me in australia australi for five months at a cost of ten guineas a day and expenses saw orton often who is imprisoned under the name of cresswell purcell parcell the treasury agent also saw tim lim they knew who he was bitcon but concealed it of course they were bought up by the other side the man orton will be produced 1 I was con convicted on the ts testimony of three witness s irom australia Mia mrs mina jury mrs airs mcallister and edward hopwood lord cockburn in charging the jury said if you believe these three witnesses and I 1 see no reason why you should no then I 1 there is no necessity etsity for you oa to pa pay 1 any attention to the rest of ake ev evi ay dence 11 and the jury spent just twenty minutes arriving at a verdict 0 over v er witnesses were examined t was taken for 1 00 days six weeks more were taken up with speeches on oa both sides and then the jury at lord Cock burns instigation found a verti ct in twenty minutes I 1 they believed or professed used to believe belicov the three witnesses named and if ignored all the others the story 0 of taase three witnesses wita esses and how they were procured procure ti has been partly published already mrs jury judythe Ju rythe the highly respectable lady from melbourne I 1 was the keeper ot a brothel and was hired at 1000 ana all expenses bv treasury agent purcell to come to england and swear I 1 was arthur orion we had only three days notice before she was produced IV in the witness box there was no cable to melbourne then so we could tell not nothing hint about her she was transported to van clemans Di Dl emans land in 1847 on a seven years sentence for felony site she his has been nine times limes since my trial she is a pro feas fess ional criminal and an occasional brothel keeper when her record reached england 1 I was serving my term hopwood was introduced by the proc prosecution as a wealthy australian landholder he was the orly witness who waa supplied tile me wissing link hah in the ibe chain of evidence he HB a wore he be knew me as thomas castro in ne new w south wales and as arthur in victoria thomas castro you know was wa my assumed name in ih australia well the colonial papers davd thoroughly exposed conwood Hoo Hon wood he ws common laborer and a dokler and vis hired at 1000 and expenses to swear what he be did the third witness against me mrs ut 8 mcallister not got 2000 and first class passage for her h husband and hersell to to london and back with hote hole expenses fors fora month in london in egort the three chief against we ose well weis bribed 1 I bad witnesses altogether of these josl swore I 1 was roger tub til h borne abe other swore to lo my not being arthur orton tile the witnesses who positively identified me included my mother lady tichborne ulue commissioned officers and so 87 noncom commissioned officers and privates ol of the be Cabi Cabin eera the regiment I 1 had a commission in for three years before going away the family bankers who advanced me money without question and a host of people who knew tn mg before I 1 left home including about all the gentry entry of hampshire 11 go do you resemble arthur orton not in the least I 1 knew him well in australia and hes a different look tug ing man in aam alexion pl exion color of hair and eyes and general build 1 sir roger koger went on to tell of the vast aunis sums of money lent him in london to carev on the casi cas edmund yates of the world word had lent wirt him but that was a mere trini comparatively and only went to show that the bright ert cst men iu in lundon london believed in hla him the loans from various individuals lb reached in ia some cases as high as even the jew money lend ers of london had bad advanced him over the trial cost nearly |