THE TICHBORNE CASE

Otago Witness, Volume 14, Issue 2648, 14 December 1904, Page 19

THE TICHBORNE CASE

DEATH OF THE LUNATIC

CRESSWELL.

SYDNEY, December 12.

Cresswell, who was supposed to be identical with Sir Roger Tichborne, died ifif the Parramatta Asylum to-day.

[Roger Charles Tichborne, son of Sir James, was bom in 1829, and was educated in Prance. He entered th« British ramy, and proposed marriage to his cousin, Kate Doughty. -On being refused he nailed to Valparaiso. He left Rio do Janeiro* in the Belli* in 1854. That vessel foundered at sea. A chancery suit was commenced, and tho death legally proved. But in response to the mother's advertisements for her son the claimant .Orton turned up. He asserted that he and eight of the crew of tho Bella had t>een saved, and that he went to Australia and lived there roughly for 13 years. Then commenced tho famous trial, wMcli cost the estate about £92,000. On the ons hundred and third day Orton was nonsuited, and' was at once arrested for perjury, tried, and eventually sentenced to 14 years imprisonment ■with hard labour. Thosie who iiad tbeir faith shaken in Orton still believed in the story thai) Sir Roger Ticlihorne had not been lost in the Bella., and sought to identify the unfortunate lunatic Cress-well with the missing Six Roger. Now that he has died the great Tichborne case may ba said to havo run its course J.