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Drawer 27

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Facsimile of Tichborne Case: The Claimant’s Letter from Newgate, March, 25, 1872

 Item — Drawer: 27, Folder: 1, Object: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Great Tichborne Case Collection is housed in the LaBudde Special Collections of the UMKC Miller Nichols Library. It is a lean but significant collection of ephemera and other items documenting the celebrated 19th-century legal case in the United Kingdom of Arthur Orton, an impostor who claimed to be missing heir Sir Roger Tichborne. Orton’s conduct was so outrageous that it was the target for much fodder in newspapers and other publications. The collection highlights the vast notoriety...
Dates: March, 25, 1872