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Tichborne case. A very celebrated case in which one Arthur Orton, for falsely swearing in 1867 and afterwards that he was Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, who had been drowned at sea in 1854, was sentenced in 1873 to fourteen years' penal servitude-being seven years (the maximum sentence for perjury) for each of two perjuries. See Best on Evidence, 10th Edn., s. 517 B, where an extract from Orton's confession, sworn before a commissioner for oaths, is given; Article in Supplement to Dictionary of Biography, tit. 'Orton'; Famous Trials of the Century (19th), by J.B. Atlay, and other authorities referred to in Best on Evidence, latest book.