Tichborne case
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The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that fascinated Victorian Britain in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the claims by a man sometimes referred to as Thomas Castro or as Arthur Orton, but u
The blended image (centre) was said by the Claimant's supporters to prove that Roger Tichborne (left, in 1853) and the Claimant (right, in 1874) were one and the same person.
Roger Tichborne: one of two daguerreotypes taken in South America in 1853–54
August 1865 advertisement in The Argus seeking information as to Tichborne's fate
Thomas Castro's butcher's shop in Wagga Wagga, Australia
Jack Whicher
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Detective Inspector Jonathan Whicher was an English police detective. He was one of the original eight members of London's newly formed Detective Branch, which was established at Scotland Yard in 1842
Tichborne case
…he had learned his trade in Wapping. When this information reached London, enquiries were made in Wapping by a private detective, ex-police inspector Jack Whicher, and the Claimant's visit in December 1866 was revealed. Arthur Orton, a butcher's son born on 20 March 1834 in Wapping, had gone to sea as a boy and…
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Constance Kent in 1860