ECHO OF FAMOUS CASE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1924, Page 7

ECHO OF FAMOUS CASE

"I AM ROGER TICHB.ORNE" CONFESSION OF A MURDER. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COtXMOHT.) ! tSYDNEI SUN .CAULU.) (Received 30th September, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 29th September. The newspaper "The People" publishes an amazing story by Theresa Doughty Tichborue, aged fifty-one, who in October, 1923, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for sending threatening letters to Sir George Lewis, a well-known solicitor. The ■woman is a, daughter of Arthur Orton, the "Tichborno claimant." She has just been released, and believing her-; self .dying in gaol, she wrote to the Home Office revealing her father's alleged "secret," which was confided to •her in 1885. This "secret" was the following statement : "I am Roger Tichborue. Arthur Orton, whom lam supposed to be, was my confederate in many exploits in Australia. I shot him doad at.Wagga'in 1866, during a quarrel, in \yhich he threatened to expose me." She explains that her father's visit to Ortou's relatives at Wapping was for the purpose of discovering if tho family had been apprised of this murder, bho adds that slio wanted to reveal'his secret when she was tried in 1913 o f attempting to shoot a member of ' the Xichborno family, but her sister dissuaded her. She acted as her father's secretary on a lecturing tour, but left him because, she disapproved of some of Jus habits. Afterwards she became an actress.