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Show I SECRET OF NOBILITY LOCKED I WITHIN BODY fN PUBLIC MORGUE Newspaper Clippings Hint That Eccentric Old New York Watchman Was Disgraced Eldest Son of Duke of Grafton and Heir to Vast Estates NEW YORK. July 20 (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) The body of an eccentric ec-centric old night watchman and odd Job man lying unclaimed on a. marble mar-ble tlab In Kings ounty morgue, locked a secret of heritage that authorities au-thorities of two continents were scok-. scok-. n;r to solvo. H Was Ed-ward Eu.ston. as he was H Known In the little Brooklyn lodging houso. where the bodj" wiis found, a lineal descendant of Charles 11 and the "black shccD" eldest son of the late duke of Grafton entitled to thoi vast estates and all the hereditament ; now enjoyed by the second son of, the late duke? Was he a member at, H all of the ancient family of Fltzroy'.'j B Or was ,11 merely coincidence that the man 'of mystery should hav - -lected clippings dealing with the affairs af-fairs of th- ITltatojrs to cherish unions his dearest possessions? H These are some of the Questions H the police, the British conatll and the J public administrator have been try 41 Ing to answer since they discovered I H beneath the atttered carpet of his, H room these treasured newspaper clip- pines. H Euston. who was night watchman ' b for a steamship company, and erst- H while applicant for odd Jobs at Sal-j H ration Armv headquarters, died sev- H eral dayi ago after languishing be-' hind the closed door of his room for H nearly a week, repulsing the proffered H attentions of his landlady and scorn ing s iircestlont, that a doctor be 6ent for TREASURE CACHE l OI .ND. H His death excited little comment H until a detective found his treasure H The treasure consisted of a dime-i- H week life Insurance policy "to aaeure H the decent Christian burial." a photo- H graph obviously of the dead man. Is;?' though taken years ago. when its H subject was in his prime, and when 1 he wore the clothes ot an English H gentleman, as one to the manner 1 born; the clippings and a faded Ma- H apron. H On on of the clippings regarding H the present duke, which Euston had B pasted to the back of his photograph as If he Vould h&o said. ' Thero but for the curse of fate go 1" the authorities began to build up the utory that the dead night watchman might have been the real duke of (Jrnfton. TEXT OF CLIPPING. This clipping read. ' Lord Eu-ton is a widower of CI and father of three children Lady Lillian, who married July 20, 1910. Charles Robertson, late of the uilnls-try uilnls-try of education in Egypt: Lady Margaret Mar-garet witzroy and Viscount Bpswlcl The viscount is 30 years old. bolng eight months the junior of Lady Lil-l Lil-l . lian ad IT months younger thau Lady Margarot. "Lord EuMton married April 87, 1875. a daughter oi Brio Cai rington Bmith. of Stonewicb. Sussex, She died -March 10, 191. Today. Moj l.iv. i the duko of Grafton's birthday lio is a veteran of the Crimean war. and was badly wounded at the battle of Inkerman." The theory was further etrengthen-ed. etrengthen-ed. In the. opinion of detectives on the ppH case, by the presence of the Masonic apron. Lord Euston. it was pointed out. stood high in Masonry, and several sev-eral time hud come to Amerll a to tfreat Masonic gatherings as the personal per-sonal emissary of the late King Edward Ed-ward VIL Euston was known at the Brooklyn public librarv ai an .trd.-nt p.-ruser j of English newspapers. WEDS ADVEMIRI.SS. Driver who went through mu.tyl newspaper files, liberally sprinkl I with the doings of British nobility, found much to support and little o l redlt the theory that he really j was the duke of Grafton, and that he h i'i dropped out of sight. dl-graced, 1 In favor of his younger brother, by ihe compulsion of a "strange quirk of chivalry," that ran in the famlK-itid famlK-itid that already hud wrecked his lite I and that of one of his sisters. Nearly a half century ago. the rec- ards showed, the young earl of Eus-:on Eus-:on heir to the dukedom of Grafton, fell desperately in love with a noto- j rlOUS demimonde of London Kate! Walsh, a woman a dozen years older! han himself and scandalized his ! family by contracting a marriage with I IK i her Then horrified at what he had done, ho turned oyer to her all his money :md left her, going to Aus- tralln to begin life anew. FIRST HUSBAND FOUND. Meantime, his friends at home were seeking somo means by whU h the i marriage could be upset. Finally word was flashed to him that there, i v. as hope It had been discovered, the message said, that Kato Walsh J had another husband living when -lie married Lord Euston. Hence, his marriage to her was lnyalld. Over-! Joyed, the young lord hurried home and began proceedings for an annulment annul-ment Search was made for George Manlev Smith, the alleged flrnt hu.-band. hu.-band. Finally ho was found and I agreed to testify for Lord Euston. j But the wife's lawyers hurled a bomb shell into the annulment pro-! ce dings by proving from Smith'a own I lips on cross examination that he himself had another wife when he ! i tarried Kate Walsh. The court held that the woman's first marrlaKc was 1 Im illd and that the subsequent ceremony cere-mony making her Lady Euston was legal j nU binding She remained Lady Euston until her death. Edward Euston s landlady said the dead watchman had been proud of his n une. Euston. i n OTHER SCRAPES, In any event. Lord Eustona trou-1 blea did not stop with the death of, Kat Walsh. The records show that he was Involved In other scrapes In London ono with a chorus slrl and finally. In 1903. his creditors best-t ! him Twice he was declared a bankrupt bank-rupt and late that year ho left his native land for America. There I.- a long gq n in the rocords Then In 1912. the seoord set forth that Lord Euston hail died. reerave records at tho British con-iiuato con-iiuato hers tally with newspaper clip Pings m their lack of detlM aeath. There was no date 3avo tho e.nr. though the peerage record In other cases rave the month and day j of death. There was nothing to show Where Lord Euston died, or how |
