ARTHUR ORTON.
London, May 17. The People publishes the Tichborne Claimant’s sworn affidavit confessing himself to be Arthur Orton, and says he married Mary Ann Bryant at Goulburn, New South Wales. London, May 18. Orton confesses that at the age of 14 he was apprenticed to sea, and visited Valparaiso in the brig Ocean, from which he deserted and visited Santiago and San Francisco, returning to England in 1851. tie sailed for Hobart in November, 1852, in charge of a number of ponies consigned to aMr Chapman, of Hobart. He worked for a butcher named Knight, of Hobart, in 1855, and in the same year accepted employment under John Johnson, of Newburn Park, Gippsland, Victoria. He remained in the latter situation for twelve months, and then was employed by William Foster, of Borsdale Station. He was for four years manager of Dargo Station, and then was for a long period at Reedy Creek diggings. He also enumerated several other places where he was employed in Victoria and New South Wales.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1212, 24 May 1895, Page 34
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170ARTHUR ORTON. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1212, 24 May 1895, Page 34
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