3-039-249 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The claimant in the Tichborne trial, 1871. 'A Portrait of the person who claims to be Sir Roger Tichborne', from a photograph by Messrs. Maull and Co. 'The claimant declined to explain why he dropped the name of Castro and took that of Morgan, on the ground that his answer might tend to criminate himself...About the time that he changed his name to Morgan Arthur Orton was in custody for highway robbery...Monday's cross-examination was directed to the claimant's experiences in South America, and to the incidents which transpired on board the Pauline, in which Roger Tichborne embarked from Havre for Valparaiso...the claimaint...explained that he could not accompany the commission to Australia, in April, 1869, to confront the witnesses who were to prove that he was Arthur Orton, partly through want of funds...The claimant said he was married at Wagga-Wagga, on Jan. 29, 1865 ; and was again married, on July 9, 1886, in a Roman Catholic church at Goulburn...After an adjournment for an hour the claimant was pressed with questions relating to his going to Wapping, making inquiries about the Orton family, on the very day he landed at the docks'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.