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Show MY BE GENUINE SCION ,0f KINO GEORGE IV. Of ' ENGLAND; PRIEST'S TALE NEW YORK, Nov. 17. That the British legation at , Washington paid the tuition pf James Ord. the reputed son of King George IV., and his lawiul j wife. Mrs. Fitzherbert; that British -'officers visited Georgetown university, where he was trained, and that the original Ord bore a striding resemblance resem-blance to the English Kirfg is the gist of a statement made yesterday by the I Rev. John Fox, S. J., president of St. j Peter's college, Jersey City. Father ! Fox was at -Georgetown university for many years and was intimate with the Jesuit astronomer. Father Ourley, who knew James Ord. j Father Fox said: "Father Curley died i at the age of J4. I recall distinctly his i speaking of the Ord mystery, on the lineage of a young student whom he knew as a boy at the university. He told me that in those days, the latter I part of the eighteenth century, young Ord was spoken of as one of royal birth. Father Curley told me particularly particu-larly that the bills contracted by young Ord were met by the British legation and that in his time British officers frequently fre-quently visited the institution to inquire in-quire for young Ord. The two eldest sons of this Ord attended Georgetown university when Father Curley Was stationed there as a priest. "I met James Ord in 1889. I did not broach the subject, but when he gave his name I recalled Father Curley's story. Although bent with age. there was a kingly bearing about him." James L.. Ord. the Western 1'nlon telegraph superintendent in Chicago. Is a direct descendant of the original Ord, and believes himself the- legitimate legiti-mate grandson of King Gorge IV. and the legitimate heir to the estate of Mrs. Fitzherbert. said to he Vi.ooo.ow. |