Show CLAIMS TO I I fRENCH THRONE I I Son SOil of Watchmaker Says He isReal is isReal isReal Real Heir of the Royal Bourbons THE ALSO WANTS A THE w WEALTH of if Prince Ate Arc Stirring I European I leads for Hack flack i hii hi of Scheme I Special Service Paris May Iny 1 12 Prince Jean of or Boi or 01 as his adherents call him lim Jean III Ill king of France Fiance and Navarre the thc grandson of ot the tik watch maker who claimed to be beUle bethe bethe the Ule French dauphin son of Louis XVI and Marie l Antoinette told your correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent that his time was wa surely coming and that the Orleans would be ic forced soon to disgorge the wealth stolen from the Royal Line LIno of ot France Up to to recently Prince J Jean enn sold liquor for 01 a but now his ad adherents adherents her her- have provided him with a n more mOIe suitable business business' He lie has hac transformed trans traus- formed himself Into a civil engineer drills artesian wells and builds bath houses He is thirty five years realS of age e agean an and wears a Kaiser Vilhelm mustache There are two other othel princes of Prance France Charles who absolutely re refuses ye- ye fu fuses to go to work and nud lives by his wits and Louis a sargeant in the French foreign legation Agents j ts report pio Our Oum agents agent reports steady progress progress ress reISH of the good caus cause said Jean The other othel day he hI was received b by the queen of ot the Netherlands like most of the rulers of Europe firmly believe E that our claims claim are legitimate and that my lily grandfather so called buried at Delft DeUl was waif the thc real Ical dauphin Said the queen to my representative rep rep- In this thi 1 very ery room Joon I was as told only a few fw months ago b by the prince of ot Bulgaria a member of the Orleans family that he and his brothers and sisters and cousins and aunts had iii no nn doubt douht whatever that the son of ot Marie Antoinette did not die dh- in the Temple prison as reported t hut but earea escaped ped The pretender sent ent for his five five- year old son Mon the present dauphin Heis He lie HeIs lieis is a fine tine looking boy and bears a striking likeness to the youthful pic plc- pictures tures ture tureA QC f his hil alleged great grandfather the Sixteenth Louis Portraits Pom of the 10 boy have been sent to lo th the courts of Vienna Madrid Rome St St. Petersburg Petersburg Peters Peters- burg and amid The Te Hague laGue and Prince Jean says that the kings Icings and queens and did not fall fal to recognize the great likeness He lIe showed ed your our correspondent a u lete letter from Grand Duke Vladimir which reads If you and your family faintly are ore ever p lr recognized I will wi be the first to greet reel you ou as ae heir of the tho royal Bourbons The French republic takes takeR no notice whatever of these pretensions As Prince Jean was born In Delft it I d de deales denies de- de ales nies him bun citizens citizen's r rights and calls him hima a n Dutchman This ThiH Prince Jean characterizes char char- as ridiculous since a son of France descendant of a long line of kings kings can never be otherwise than a Frenchman A As the the same Limo the prince doilies that he has an any political am ambitions All Al he wants is recognition and the vast riches of ot the Bourbons which the Orleans wrongfully an an- |