Show t I l ri 1 II I II I 7 I r I Il I l I Iuppo II II I II I I SI 4 I ro 0 0 7 7 5 11 or OF JHo rW oo I By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE other day lIny R a group of r- r French no gathered gathered gath- gath ered In the Abbey of St. St Denis north north of of Paris where lie the Kings of In their ro royal al tombs Time The occasion was the one hundred thirty fifth anniversary ot of the execution of Louis XVI which teok place during g time the French revolution antI and they had gathered there thele in t memory of the Bourbon monarch m find and hIs Queen Marie Antion- Antion ette While they thus dins I honored til e e etwo two twe victims of that historic tragedy the they were deni denied 11 t the le IH privilege l e e of pay lag Ing a of respect to a third thild s the lost Dauphin of France for tile the reason that no one olle knows where lie thin the remains of that victim of the nel of Terror In the cemetery of the church of Jf St S1 Mar aret In the in-the the Rue Hup St S1 ih Barnard there I Is Isn n 11 tomb the words L I X II I 1 j A et v oele s i e est t. t dolor dolor meus Is r n tIle the tomb of the lost Dauphin as that inscription would Indicate and lIS as many Parisians e Or 01 would the who wished to honor the memory pf of this I Icing III who never meld the throne which was 11 rightfully his fie he to toisH visit isH a cemetery 1 In tIle the tO town pf of New ew York nod 1 a their Te u the he gravestone grave grave- stone which h h hears V time e name ot of I Williams 1 h the assurance that luH th they were wele tints honoring the theL L little lillie to ICI it t Dauphin Although the fate pf of the lost Dauphin Dau Dau- phin Is one of thE unsolved ell riddles of history certain definite facts In regard Ill I'll to in It have been esta established by the of a recent French historian According to his account in August Au u li the Paris Commune after r tJ a with the legislative n as to where their royal pris- pris wert to h be quartered succeeded In getting Its own y and decreed that time the place of captivity should be bethe bethe the Temple the palace of et the Grand GranlI 10 of orthe the nights Knights Here were Ile field lI I ring ing Louis XVI Queen Marie Antonette Princess Elizabeth el Cl Of of the the King Princess Marie rese herese and daughter of the King Queen and later time the h lI d' d and time the Dauphin L Charles Oil On January 21 1793 if the king was d later time the Queen and the Princess Elizabeth were also sent nt und r time the knife leaving lea only the Dauphin and his sister prisoners In Inthe time the lem Temple le I Before the Queen was executed however the Dauphin had be been n sep sep- fl rem m the rest of his family and held a 1 by hImself In another part of th building where he was placed under the care of AntoIne Simon an aG Ignorant shoemaker r and Ills his wife Simon was to he be the young oung princes prince's tutor with special object ob ob- of t teaching him the tJ democratic Ue ideas Ideus ot of the revolution All that he taught the boy however howe was to t sing In int ent t and to talk the thero rough gh the lower classes lower However How lIow- ever Cr he was as not cruelly treated as has Ims so 80 often been charged and enjoyed en en- joyed joed considerable co liberty withIn the grounds On January 1 10 1791 Simon sudden suddenly ly Iy ceased to be the Dauphins Dauphin's guardian guar guar- dlan dian that mind night he and hits his left the Temple It IL Is is from this that the m cry begins I Heretofore many pC Ille had bad been al al- lo to lo losee see time the Dauphin hut but from fl ho time tine on he heas was as k kept Pt In close confinement and amid no one except the person who attended to his needs neelIs knew an anything about time the mode of his existence Within six months the Commune had fallen but the Temple still meld Its royal prisoner or er at least n a child chillI who was supposed to be bethe bethe the Dauphin Time The last guardian or of time the little prIsoner prisoner prIs- prIs oner Etienne Aisne reported that the bo boy was an ImbecIle or very much like one and finally on June S 1793 thIs boy died An autopsy was performed per per- formed and various persons were the corpse Cure Care was taken to pr prevent prent ent anyone from properly identifying fIng him h time the boy had been buried buriell as time the son of Louis XVI rumors persisted that time the Dauphin was not really dead It Is a plausible theory that time the real Prince waS taken talen away ay from time the Temple by Simon and that a substitute was placed there therein In hIs stead that Royalist plotters abducted this substitute In the belief be be- belief lief that lie he was Louis replacIng repine repine- lug Ing him with the boy who actually died In the Temple ant and was buried as time the prince a child who was apparently ap ap- apparently diseased and nn an imbecile If this Is true then the mystery Is no nearer solution than ever er before for for not long after Simon left the Temple lie he was guillotined without revealIng what disposition he had made malle of time the real Louis VII The DauphIn hind had simply disappeared and not even en the careful researches ot of this French historian has accounted for his ultImate fate lIe He Is certain that the bo boy did not dIe In the Temple hut but Is unable to find any trace of him him after his removal by those who moped hoped to profit thereby but who died before the they had the chance to male make use of theIr opportunity In the years that followed the disappearance dis- dis appearance of time the real Dauphin and the death of the supposed PrInce In Inthe inthe the Temple there thele came a veritable deluge of claimants to time the title ot of being time real Louis No Ko less than twenty five r Lest st Dauphins appeared before French rench courts from tine time to time to press their claims and to disturb the peace of mind ot of time the government go of France The most picturesque perhaps of all claimants was Charles Wil liam who appeared In ParIs In 1533 as time the long missIng lost Dauphin lIe Ile too had a long list of documents In support of his assume that he was of royal blood but when the court COUlt heard the evidence e this lost Dauphin was summarily from flom France He eventually e made malIc his home In Delft and dIed In 1845 1395 So Se strongly did he impress im- im press his claims upon a large group group of French royalists that he was hurled hur hur- led fell with great ceremony and over his grave gra In the Delft cemetery was wasI erected a monument bearIng these I words Here rep reposes ses Louis VII King of France Flunce and Nu Navarre Charles Louis Duke e of Normandie born In Versailles March 27 1755 died In Delft August 10 1845 1815 It Is a far cry from the palace palace of Versailles and the Temple In ParIs to time the little tittle town of Hogansburg N N. Y and Green Da Bay Wis yet these two American towns have also ulso been concerned In the mystery ot of the lost D Dauphin Seventy seven seven years ago both Europe and America were agog over o time the assertion of Rev neve Eleazer Williams an Episcopal missionary among the IndIans that he was vas the son of oC Louis XVI and therefore the lost DauphIn of France Eleazer VII VII- hams was the son on of a halfbreed Mohawk IndIan chIef Thomas Wil tams IIams who was descended from Eunice WIllIams the famous Deerfield captive and was one of the family of thirteen by Thomas wn- wn IIams' IIams IndIan wife Mary Iary Ann Wil- Wil liams hIams lIe He grew up among the Mohawks Mohawks Mo- Mo hawks at Caughnawaga Quebec but was educated In New England and served brIlliantly as the head of a corps of scouts and spies for the Americans In the War of 1812 Later Ime he became a missionary among hIs Imis fathers father's people first as a Congregationalist Con grega- grega and later as an EpiscopalIan When they and other Iroquois tribesmen tribesmen tribes tribes- men In New York were being hard pressed by the alI advancing white settlers settlers set set- he was Instrumental In ob ob- ob taming lands f for r them In Wisconsin At some time during his early career Ime he heard the story of the lost Dauphin Dau Dau- phin and having been told tollI that he resembled the Bourbon Prince he decided to advance ance his claims to the honor of of- beIng that person Owing to toa a scrofulous taInt In his family the bruises and injuries received while he was a chillI playIng with his In in- dlan playmates left permanent scars which were later inter In life lite la In creased In size by artificIal means These lie he claimed to have been time the result of time the shackles and chains with which he was confined In the Temple In 1841 the Prince de son of the then reigning King Louis Philippe of France followed his fathers father's fathers father's fa- fa ther's example and paid a visit to AmerIca DurIng n a trip on the Great Grent Lakes time the Prince found awaiting hIm at Mackinac a lookIng clerical gentleman who asked permission to accompany the PrInces PrInce's party to Green Bay WIs This cleric was Eleazer Williams and soon after the departure of the PrInce from Green GreenBay Ba Bay WillIams gave out the astonish astonish- lag Ing statement that De Joinville hall had acknowledged that he Williams Wil- Wil lams liams was LouIs and that the Prince had sought him out In the western western west west- ern wilderness to ask him to renounce renounce re- re his claIm to the throne of f France A few years ears later Williams told Iris his story to Rev nev J. J LI II Han lIun- son who wrote nn an article na Have nae e We Wea a Bourbon Among Us which appeared ap- ap In the February 1853 1833 number of Monthly When a copy of this magazine was received III ht England where the Prince de Join Join- sube was then living Ing as an etile from frem France rance he Immediately repudiated the alleged Interview and WillIams as an Impostor However n a book by Hanson Time The Lost PrInce which gave gae a detailed account of If life fe and which prove proved to the satisfaction ot of the author at least that the Mohawk halfbreed missionary missIon mission- ary was Indeed the lost Dauphin gained for him many adherents Although Williams steadfastly tamed that he was the lost Dam Dau phi nothing ever came of his pre tensions and he died August 28 S 15 on the St. St Regis reservation nem ne r Hogansburg N. N Y EvIdently hIs nil ad were wele not as steadfast In their belief as were those of for he was burled buried with Masonic rites simply as Brother Eleazer and the plain monument over ocr his grave at bears not th the lo royal nl crest clest of the house of Bourbon Dour Bour- bon boa hut but the Masonic emblem his name dates of his birth find and death s he has iud hull as much right to the title of the lost lost- Dauphin ps nrY other claimant claimant- hut but history has hris not net 1 yet et been convinced that any of of the claims are ure convincing I |