Millard County Chronicle | 1912-03-28 | Page 4 | Was Heir to Throne.

WAS HEIR TO THRONE. Confederate Veteran Claims He Should Have Been King of Spain. Macon, Ga. The death of John S. De Montmollln, a Confederate veteran, veter-an, hero Saturday has brought to light documents that tend to show ho was heir to the throne of Spain. The papers, pa-pers, which were secreted In De Mont-mollin's Mont-mollin's houseboat on the Ocmulgee river, are said to be of such convincing convinc-ing character that at one time the head of Cambridge university, England, Eng-land, went so far as to offer to equip a war party to invade Spain In an effort ef-fort to seat the American claimant. De Montmollln said that he should have become king when Alfonso XII, father of the present monarch, began hie reign. The documents shew several sev-eral communications from AlfonHo XIII In relation to the claim. They also show an offer of a targe sum of money from General Weyler to head a filibustering expedition from Tuba, but De Montmollln refused to consider the offer. The American claimant was seventy-four years old, and was born In Savannah, Ga. He was a marine engineer engi-neer by profession, but for some years bad led a secluded life.