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Show CLAIMS HE IS CZAR NICHOLAS death. Five years later a stranger who said he was Czai Peter III turned up in Montenegro. The people of that country were sorely In need of a ruler, so they asked the alleged l'eter to lead their armies in battle, and later he took over the reins of government under un-der the title of Stephen the Little, lie established courts of law and bettered living conditions throughout l he country. coun-try. Catharine soon learned that Montenegro Monte-negro was a power to be reckoned with, so she denounced Stephen as. an impostor. He was thrown into jail and a representative of Catharine visited vis-ited him. Presumably they came to some agreement and Stephen was permitted per-mitted to return to his throne. Claimant to Throne of Russia Reported to Be Gathering Support in Siberia. SAYS SERVANT WAS KILLED Present Soviet Government Has Offered Of-fered 2,000,000 Rubles for Alleged Shaftoe confined in a French convent when they learned she shared their secret, but she succeeded in sending word to her mother. When it was published pub-lished that Oglethorpe's son was sup- posed to be the prince the Chevalier St. George's plans in Scotland failed. Immediately alter Catharine and Peter Pe-ter III ascended the throne of Russia Rus-sia Catharine had her husband thrown into prison and later reported his Fretender's Head Pretenders of Bygone Days. New York. A recent dispatch from London brings the information that n mm purporting to be Czar Nicholas II nf Russia is raising a large following In Siberia. According to his allegations, allega-tions, he asserts that it was one of his faithful servants who was killed in his place by the bolsheviki at Ekaterinburg Ekat-erinburg over two years ago. The present pres-ent soviet government has offered a eward of 2,000,000 rubles for this alleged al-leged pretender's head. If this man is an Impostor another name can be added to the long list of pretenders to the crowns of Europe. In bygone days some were successful in establishing their claims, while olh-fTK olh-fTK paid the penalty for their false allegations on the guillotine. One of the successful claimants to a throne nf Europe proved to be a wise and able ruler. About 1493 a mysterious stranger appeared in Cork, Ireland, where the people greeted him as the brother of Edward IV of England, but he denied this. They then claimed that he was the son of Richard III, and he denied this too. I'.ut at length he admitted that he was the duke of York, one of the two princes whom it was believed Richard III had murdered in the tower of London. Members of the nobility came from England, and after questioning the stranger they were convinced that he was the duke of York. He then called himself Richard Plantagenet, duke of York, son of Edward IV, and by right of succession Richard IV of England. Henry VII was then ruler of England, Eng-land, and he did all In his power to thwart the designs of the new clalm-' clalm-' nnt to the throne. He succeeded. Jq driving him out of France by forcing Charles VIII to banish him, and he defeated him when he invaded England Eng-land from Scotland. Richard IV then sought refuge In Cornwall and later inarched on London at the head of 7,000 Cornishmen who rallied to his banner, but he was defeated and taken prisoner. Admitted He Was Adventurer. It was said that Henry VII obtained a confession from him by torture. He udmitted that he was one Perkin War-beck, War-beck, an adventurer from Picardy. After several weeks In the public stocks this pretender was executed. James II became unpopular by favoring fa-voring the church of Rome, so William and Mary were invited to accept the throne of England, since Mary was the eldest child of Charles II. But a year before they assumed their regal duties It was announced that James' consort was about to present him with an heir. However, a rumor spread that James was about to pass off on the unsuspecting unsus-pecting public as his heir a child that was not his own. The birth of Prince lames Francis Edward Stuart, "'ho ivas known in later years as the Ohev-ilier Ohev-ilier St. George, was witnessed by persons not really believed by the people. The following year James II was forced to flee to France. Many years later the two daughters of Sir Theophllus Oglethorpe, who was a faithful follower of James H, were overheard by Frances Shaftoe, a seamstress, seam-stress, to remark that James Stuart, the Chevalier St. George, was their brother. One night the queen's infant in-fant died of convulsions at Windsor and Lady Oglethorpe brought her son, nine days older, to the castle and he ivas substituted for the prince. Oglethorpe's daughters had Frances |
