THE TICHBORNE IMPOSTURE.
* HOW ORTON WAS LKD TO MAKE HIS CLAIM. LPbiss Association.] (Beoeived May 25, 10.45 a m.) London, 24th May. Orton confesses that while he was at Wagga a ohum showed him Lady Tiohborne's advertisement, and suggested that he answered to the description of the missing heir given therein. Ont of devilment Orton pretended to be affected to tears, and .thus oreated a wrong impression for the sake of a lark. It is thonght he had never heard of Tiohborne before his ohum showed him the advertisement. Mr. Gibbs, of Wagga, was the attorney who persuaded, him to write claiming the succession.
[Special.— Received May 25, 11.10 a.m. j. London, 24th May. Orton says Slade "gave away" all the details of the Tiohborne family affairs. He simply -suoked Blade's brains. He merely asked Lady Tiohborne for .£3OO in the first instance, bat the popular confidence that he was the heir forced on the imposition. His intention was to Bail for Panama.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1895, Page 2
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163THE TICHBORNE IMPOSTURE. Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1895, Page 2
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