Show once home of refugee who feared napoleon syracuse N Y more than it century and a quarter ago ina in a valloy valley in central new york known till this day as nr Br ondera onders hollow a refugee member of frances nobility who stood in line as a future king of that country Is said to have sought escape from napoleon who was making quick work of tits opponents by way of the guillotine here in the forest recesses of hills ln in a fortress like mansion hewn front from sturdy cherry trees this frenchman founded it settlement which after a brief colorful existence crumbled back into forest wilds to become one of the forgotten villages of this section of new york according to the syracuse post standard built imposing chateau the story had its beginnings in 1808 when a frenchman who called himself plain louis abathe muller and who never ventured forth with out an armed bodyguard purchased 2700 acres of land in this isolated region near slab city now georgetown and employed men whom he paid in gold and silver to construct a palatial bulletproof bullet proof chateau on the summit of the highest hill on his bis estate beside a mlle southeast Bouth cast east of his how homestead estead in the valley of Br ondera onders 11 ollow named after john 1 bronder broader one of the men who had accompanied him to this country the frenchman who called himself muller established a village which contained two stores a mill and a storehouse store houseas as well as numerous dw dwellings bilings during the half dozen years that lie he lived in this forest mansion reticence and eccentric conduct greatly stirred of his neighbors and gave rise to many it wild rumor as to tits his identity but never by v an idle word did he betray ahls real story and when after hearing of the collapse of napoleons fortunes lie he departed jubilantly for france he left in hla his wake a mystery which never has been explained to the full tion of his central now new york acquaintances quain or their descendants home destroyed by fire visitor site of the ol 01 old d muller house which was leveled must amith imagination nation to believe that this once was the estate of a french nobleman says the writer if he be drives along the narrow country road that winds across the hills toward bron ders hollow he will pass densely wooded stretches that look as if they never lidd had known the pioneers fix ax A few bleak gray farmhouses with desolation staring through their windows decrepit barns with doors that hat creak on rusty hinges and the shapeless frames of occasional abandoned automobiles to along the way are the only evidence that thai man ever con |