All these discoveries were confirmed by the registers of shipping, which showed that Arthur Orton embarked for Valparaiso in 1848, re-embarked for London in 1851, and sailed again for Hobart Town in the following year.  But there were other significant circumstances.  The ship in which Arthur Orton had returned from Valparaiso was called the “Jessie Miller,” which was the very name which the Claimant in his solemn declaration, prepared by Mr. Gibbes, gave as the name of the vessel in which he came out to Australia.  In the same document he had stated the date of his sailing from England as the “28th of November, 1852,” and this was now discovered to be the very day, month, and year on which Arthur Orton embarked in the vessel bound for Hobart Town.  Mr. Foster’s widow had specimens of Arthur Orton’s writing, and other mementoes of his two years’ service among them, and she unhesitatingly identified a portrait of the Claimant as that of the same man.  Among other witnesses, a farmer named Hopwood deposed that he had known Arthur Orton at Boisdale under that name, and again at Wagga-Wagga under his assumed name of Thomas Castro.  At Wagga-Wagga the will executed by the Claimant, and already referred to, was produced, and it was found that amidst all its fictitious names and imaginary Tichborne estates, it appointed as trustees two gentlemen residing in Dorsetshire, England, who have since been discovered to have been intimate friends of old Mr. Orton, the butcher.  The testimony on the Claimant’s behalf before the Commission threw but little light.  It consisted chiefly of vague stories of his having spoken when in Australia of being entitled to large possessions, and of having been an officer in the army, and stationed in Ireland.  Such testimony could, of course, have little weight against the statements of the Claimant in writing, made just before embarking at Sydney, with a view of satisfying capitalists of his identity, and betraying total ignorance of Roger Tichborne’s military life.

While these exposures were being made abroad, matters at home began to look very bad for the Claimant.  Charles Orton, the brother of Arthur, called upon the solicitors for “the other side,” and volunteered to give information.  In the presence of Lord Arundel and other witnesses, this man then stated that the Claimant of the Tichborne estates was his brother Arthur, that he had been induced by him to change his name to Brand, and to remain in concealment, that in return the Claimant had allowed him L5 per month; but that, since his departure for Chili, the allowance had ceased.  Letters of Charles Orton to the Claimant’s wife, asking whether “Sir Roger Tichborne, before he went away, left anything for a party of the name of Brand,” have been found and published; and this same Charles has, since the conviction of the Claimant, put forth a statement of the whole matter, so far as he was concerned.  Under these circumstances, Mr. Holmes withdrew from the case, and the county gentlemen who,