Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant, died last Friday' and was buried on Wednesday, in Paddington cemetery. The funeral was witnessed by thousands of people, which shows the interest still taken in the hero of what I suppose is one of the most interesting trials on record. So needy were the claimant's circumstances that at the time of his death he had been obliged to obtain parish relief and was advised by the parish doctor to enter the infirmary. To the end he maintained that he was the true Sit Roger and always spoke his wife as Lady Tichborne. The plate on his coffin was inscribed "Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne. Born on the Sth of January 1829, died on the Ist of April 1898"—s0 he was 69 years old. His death recalls all kinds of strange reminisconces. There are many people in Australia who believe that the Bella really arrived there, or rather was wrecked off the Victorian coast, and the body of a man who died in the Geelong infirmary and is now buried in the cemetery there with the letters R. D. T. over his grave is believed by some to be that of the real Sir Roger, because a pipe with the letters R. D. T. was found in one of his pockets after h doath—the said pipe is still preserved in the Geelong museum as being a possible possession of the real Sir Roger. Others think that the man, who had every appear ance of being a sailor, was one of the crew of the Bella and that' the pipe might have been given him by the true claimant who was lost at sea, Among
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