SECRET REVEALED

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 September 1924, Page 5

SECRET REVEALED

TICHBORNE TRIAL ECHO

AN AMAZING STORY

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYKIGH'J

\ (Received Sept. 30, 11.10 a.m.) \ • LONDON, Sept. 29. . The newspaper The People publishes amazing story by Theresa Doughty lichborne, aged 51, who, in October, im, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for sending threatening letters to §ir George Lewis, the wellknown solicitor.

The woman is a daughter of Arthur Orton,\ the Tichborne claimant. She has- just been released. Believing herself to be dying in gaol, she wrote to the Home Secretary revealing her father’s alleged secret, confided to her in 1885. In this secret was the statement : “I am Roger Tichborne. Arthur Orton, whom I am supposed to be, was my confederate in many exploits in Australia. I shot him dead at Wagga |n 1866, during a quarrel ,in which he threatened to expose me.” She explains that her father’s visit to Orton’s relatives at Wapping was for .the purpose of discovering if the family had been apprised of the murder. She adds that she wanted to reveal the secret when she was tried in 1913, on a charge of attempting to shoot a member - of the Tichborne family, but her sister dissuaded her. She acted as her father’s secretary on a lecturing tour, ; but left him because she disapproved oft some of' his habits. She afterwards became an actress.— Sun Cable.