THE TICHBONE CASE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 323, 7 May 1875, Page 3

THE TICHBONE CASE.

For sometime past those sympathetic souls in England, who believe with Kenealy that the Claimant is the victim of Jesuitical injustice and persecution, have been making strenuous efforts for renewing this never to-bl-ended world-renowned trial; but on the other hand, the law advisers of the Crown and the. gentlemen of Scotland Yard have not "been idle in acquiring fresh evidence and ; preparing themselves for any new course the current of events, or litigation may take. Our readers, however,; will learn; with no little astonishment, and no doubt some interest, that our own little; Province will supply a fresh and important witness i n the new trial if such be granted. It appears that a much, respected fellow colonist, Angus Alphonse Macdonald, J.P., of Holrinui, Mataura, was a fellow student, friend, and companion of the late Sir Roger C. D. Tichborne while at Stoneyhurst College, and was actually present, in company with Lord Bellew, whilst the much disputed operation was performed of tatoomg iSir Roger's arm. On this point the evidence of Lord Bellew was quite distinct, but much conflicting evidence was adduced on the side cf the Claimant, and. in this point, and this alone, the'case for the Crown was weak; but the missing link has, we learn,. been found and supplied in the evidence of Mr. Macdonald, with whom, we aro informed, the Attorney-General is at present corresponding. By-an extraordinary coincidence of circumstances, it appears that previous to the departure of Sir Roger for South America the two friends, Mr. Macdonald and Sir Roger, both' gay and fashionable young men, were for a time residing at Poster's Hotel, London, then' and now the rendezvous- of the Catholic nobility and leading aristocracy of England. At that time Mr. Macdonald was about leaving) his native land to embark in extensive pastoral pursuits at Penola, in> South Australia, and was a witness on more- than one occasion to an interview between Sir Roger and his solicitor, Mr. Grosfordi It is understood lie can throw some material light upon the contents of the mysterious " sealed packet." It would thus seem that the gods have decreed against poor Sir Roger,- and that, as every end of the earth has already supplied its quota of evidence. for , or against the Claimant, it falls last, but not least, to the lot of New Zealand to for ever rivet the chains round the limbs of Arthur Orton.—' Bruce Herald.'