| Show n r PRINCES PRINCE'S ESCAPE FROM PRISON How Louis Napoleon Napoleon Fled from the Fortress of Ham Prince Louis Napoleon afterward Napoleon II III Ill effected his escape from Ham In 1846 In a singular manner He was Imprisoned for his attempts against the French government made at Boulogne In 1840 At 7 o'clock one morning the prince having shaved haved his mustache and thrown a blouse and workingman's trousers over his ow own n clothes and wearing wooden shoes quietly walked out of the the- prison carryIng carrying carry carry- Ing a bookshelf over his shoulder should r t to o complete his disguise He was taketo taken take to be one of the painters then at wor worin work k In the prison and was passed by several several sev sev- eral persons perso persons s. s A carriage was waiting g In the neighborhood and by 3 o'clock In the afternoon he was at Valenciennes Valenciennes Valen Valen- where he took a train t to o Brussels and he arrived in London two days later Meanwhile in the prison Dr Gonneau Conneau the princes prince's physician physician physician cian had placed a dummy in the princes prince's bed and told tike the gov governor rn r that the prince was confined to his room by illness This satisfied the governor until 7 o'clock-in o'clock In the evening when f he Jle insisted on seeing the prince and andS and S discovered the fraud By this time of r course the prince was was over the fron fron- tier Dr Conneau got off oft with with three months of prison Within thirty thirty one one months Prince Napoleon was the first president of a French republic supplanting sup sup- supplanting k planting King Louis Philippe who had abdicated |
