AN AMAZING STORY.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16213, 30 September 1924, Page 5

AN AMAZING STORY.

TICHBORNE CASE AGAIN

A SECRET REVEALED

ORTON REALLY TICHBORNE.

(Sun Cable.) LONDON, Sept. 29

The newspaper, ‘'The People, ’ publishes an amazing story by Theresa Tichbourne, aged 51, who, in October, 1023, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for sending threatening letters to Sir George Lewis, a well-known solicitoi-.

The woman is the daughter of Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant. She has just been released and believing herself 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 statement: “I am Roger Tichborne. Arthur Orton, whom I am supposed to be, was my confederate in many exploits in Australia, and 1 shot him dead at Wagga in 1886 during a quarrel, in which he threatened to expose me.” She explains 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 she wanted to reveal the secret when she was tried in 1913 of attempting to shoot a member of the Tichborne family. Her sister dissuaded her.

She acted as her father’s secretary on a lecturing tour, but left him because she disapproved of some of his habits. She afterwards became an actress.