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The Butcher Baronet

Noble Blood

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Is He a Roger Tickborne?

The claimant claimed to be roger tickborne, a baronet who owned two thousand acres of land in london and beyond. He was arrested on charges of perjury after claiming he had worked with arthur orton at an australian cattle ranch. The case was dismissed and the claimant became a massively popular figure of the public imagination. Here was a working class hero goin up against the aristocracy and the criminal system,. being denied something that belonged to him.

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