CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4527, 2 December 1884, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

Sir Boger Tichborno.

(To the Editor.)

Sm,—Kindly permit mo to make a few brief remarks in reply to your correspondent's {Levi Stanton's) letter in last night's issue. Levi Stanton, like many of his class, endeavours to settle a question which has baffled some of the master minds of the world, and has in hia attempt show.n wonderfully his incapacity to deal candidly with honest facts. He evidontly speak inadvertently whon he says that Roger Tichborne left England for Spain. It must be fresh in the memory of every one who read and interested themselves in the Tichborne cause that, instead of, as your correspondent would have us believe, Sir Kop;er having gone to Spain, he sailed for Valparaiso, which, if I con trust to my knowledge of geography, is the principal town of a Spanish colony in South America, whereheresided forovertwo yearsandahalf, and in which placo the purest Spanish only isspoken, thus giving Sir Boger, if so inclined, the beet opportunity possible of learning the language. It is really surprising that with this knowledge of factß before him, your correspondent should be found perverting the 'ruth thus, and practising upon the credulity of your readers. Again, your correspondent makes a statement at tho expense of truth when he says that young Tichborne knew there was a thoufand pounds to his credit at the bank at Melbourne (for I presume ho alludes (o that piace). It was nowhere shown in evidence that he had ever had any communication with bis mother from the time he left England, and therefore could not know of such a sum, if such was ever there. But, again, your correspondent exhibits gross ignorance of the evidence produced at the Tichborne trial when he says that.the whole evidence pointed him to be Orton. Let me call, in conclusion, one or two witnesses who will speak loudly in refutation of this assertion. The evidence of Colonel Norbray and Sergeant BrittlebaDk, the Colonel>nd Drill Sergeant of tho regiment in which young Tichborne was. The former declared that he had examined the Claimant minutely on every point, and was satisfied that he was none other than young Tichborno' who was with him in the army, and the latter avowed that after carefully examining the Claimant ho was so satisfied that if he was notthe Roger Tichborne whom he drilled in the army his name was not Brittlebank. To my mind, the testimony of these two independent witnesses, if'there had not been another one, is worth all the host tho prosecution brought againßt him. Thanking you for your kind permission, I am, etc. . Pnrno.