Show ato AN e aft W r 1 I 71 I 1 N jq ent z T E ST I 1 EST DOL MIT U I 1 MEUS E 1 n I 1 FE k ar amp 0 of M T by ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE other day a group of french royalists gathered in the abbey of S st I 1 denis deals north of 0 paris whore where lie the kings of france in their royal tombs the occasion wag tile the 0 one e hundred fifth anniversary of the execution of louis XVI took place during the french revolution and they had bad gathered there in memory of the bourbon monarch and Ms his queen ette while they thus honored those two victims of that historic tragedy traced Y they were ivere denied the privilege of paying a al millar mark of respect to a third louis tile the lost dauphin of france for tile lie reason that no one knows where lie tile remains of that victim tie chint of the reign of terror in the cemetery of the church of st SL mar alai caret in the rue st darnard barnard there la Is R n tomb which bears the words L 1705 1795 Att et bloete tl A est dolor stout dolor meus Is this the tomb of the lost dauphin as that lint inscription would indicate and ns as ninny m ny parisians Pari believe or would the file who wished to honor lite memory of cf this king who never held the throne which was rightfully ills be compelled to visit it a camet cemetery 41 ry inthe in lie town of ITo Hogi insburg gansburg new york and lay their wreaths upon alie gravestone which bears the name of riender williams with the assurance that they were thus bus honoring the little liitle lost dauphin although the fate of the lost dau dan phin Is one of the unsolved riddles of hl li lisroy stoy utoy certain definite facts in regard to 0 o it ft have teen been established by the lie ri rr searches of a recent french bist historian orlan according to his account in august 1702 1792 the parts commune after a dispute with the legislative ns as to where their royal prisoners wet to tie he quartered succeeded succeed eff in getting gelling its own way and decreed that the place of capt captivity litty should be the temple the hie palace of the grand friar of the knights Temp lars jere here were held king louis XVI queen marle antonette princess elizabeth sifter of the tang king princess marle therese daughter of the king and queen and later the Duche duchesse sze di d ang zuleme ou leme and the dauphin louls louis charles oil january 21 1793 the file king was bf be headed beheaded later tile the queen and the princess elizabeth were also tent pent under the alie knife leaving only the dauphin and his sister prisoners prisoner in the temple A before the queen was executed however the had been separated from the hie rest of tits lils family and held a prisoner sener by himself in another part of tb building where he was placed artier the care of antoine simon an ignorant shoemaker and lila life wife simon was to be the young princes tutor with the special object of teaching him film the democratic ideas of tile the revolution all that lie he latigu the boy however was tp to sins sing andt indecent cent songs and to talk the rough dougli Itin gange of the lie lower classes low how thier cr lie he was not cruelly treated as has so often been charged and en liberty within the crople er ople gr grounds amunds on january 10 19 1794 simon sudden ly jy ceased to be the dauphins dauphine Daup hins guardian and that night lie he and his left the temple it Is from this moment that the mystery begins heretofore thany many people had been allowed to see the dauphin Daup liin but from thlik time on be v was as kept in close confinement and no one except the lie person who attended to his needs knew anything about the mode of tits his existence within six months the commune had bad fallen but the temple still held its roal prisoner or at least a child who was supposed to be the dauphin the last guardian of the prisoner etienne elienne alsoc aisne reported that the boy m was as an imbecile or very much like one and finally on june 8 1705 1795 this boy died an autopsy woo was performed ond and various persons t vere tere ere shown the corpse care was taken to prevent anyone from properly identifying him film although altho gh the boy had been buried as the son of louis XVI rumors persisted that the dauphin was not really dead it Is a plausible theory that the real prince was taken away from the temple by simon and that a substitute was placed there in liis its stead that royalist Royall st plotters abducted tills this substitute in the belief that he was louis replacing him with tile the boy who actually nc lually died in the temple and was burled buried as 08 tile the prince a child who was apparently 1 irenta ly v diseased and an Imbe imbecile elle it if tills this Is true then the mystery Is no nearer solution than ever before for not long after simon left the temple lie was guillotined guillo tined without revealing what disposition he had find made of tile the real louis the dauphin Daup liin tied simply imply disappeared and not even the careful researches of this french historian lias has accounted for ills his ultimate fate lie ile la Is certain that the boy did not die in the temple lit but Is unable to find any trace of him after ills removal by those who hoped to profit art fit thereby but nho died before they had me hie chance to make use of their opportunity in the years that followed the lis its appearance of the real dauphan Daup liin and the death of the supposed suppose prince in the temple there rame came a veritable deluge of claimants to the lie title of being the real lout louis no less then than twenty he affie lost dauphins dauphine Daup hins appeared before french courts from time to time to press their claims and to disturb the pence peace of mind of the government of france the most picturesque perhaps of all the claimants was its charles william wililam nahrendorf endorf iho appeared in parts paris in ih 1 1833 as the long missing lost dauphin ile he too lind had a long list of documents in support of his hill assume lion thal he be was of royal blood blod but when the court heard the evidence this lost Davi dauphin phin was banished from france ile he eventually made tits his home in delft holland helfand and died in 1815 1845 18 15 so strongly did he lm fm press pre lils ills claims upon a large group of french royalists that he was hur bur led with great ceremony and his fits grave in the delft cemetery was erected a monument bearing these words nere reposes louis king of france and navarre charles louis puke duke of Nor normandie mandle horn in versailles march 27 1783 1735 died in delft august 10 1845 it Is a far cry from the palace of versailles and the temple in an paris to the little town toun of Ho flo gansburg N Y and green eay day wis yet these two Ameil cao can toung have dave also been concerned in the mystery of the lost dauphin seventy seven years yearn ago both europe and america were fago agog over the assertion of rev kev elk eleazar a z er williams tto an episcopal missionary among tile the indians that lie he vins as the son of louis XVI and therefore the lost dauphin of france eleazer El caer williams was waa tile the son BOO of a halfbreed indian chief thomas wit wil ilams hams who was descended from eunice williams the famous deerfield captive and was one of the family of thirteen by thomas williams indian wife nary mary ann williams ue ile grew crew up among the ilo hanks limits at caughnawaga quebec but was educated in ne new england and served brilliantly as the head of a corps of scouts and spies tor for the americans in the war of 1812 later lie he became a missionary among his fathers people first as a tlona list and later us as an episcopalian when they nod and other iroquois tribesmen in new york were being hard bard pressed by the advancing white settlers he be was instrumental la in obtaining lands for them in wisconsin at flome ome time during his early career he aimard the story of the lost dauphin ft ad d having been told that he be resemble 3 the bourbon prince lie he decided to dyance his claims to the honor of being that person owing to a scrofulous taint in his family the bruises and injuries received while he be was vias a child playing with his indian playmates left permanent scars which were later in life increased in size by artificial means these lie claimed to have been the result of the shackles and chains with which lie he was confined in the temple in 1841 the prince de joinville son of the then reigning king louis philippe of france followed his fathers example and paid a visit to america during a trip on the great lakes the prince found await awaiting ng him at mackinac Mackl lilack Inac nac a clerical looking gentleman who asked permission to accompany the princes party to green day bay wis tills this cleric was wag eleazer williams and soon after the departure of the prince from green ray bay williams gave out the astonishing statement that de joinville had biad acknowledged that lie he williams was louis and tufit the prince had sought him out in the western wilderness to ask him to renounce tits his claim fl aini to the throne of france A few years later williams told liis his story to rev J 11 II llan flan son who wrote an article ilove we a bourbon among Us which appeared in n tile the february 1853 number of ms monthly when a copy of this magazine was received in england ebere the prince de joinville vas then living as an exile from france he immediately ri the alleged interview and denounced williams as an impostor however it a book liy by lanson hanson the lost prince aich which gave a detailed account of williams life and which proved to tile the satisfaction faction of the author at least that the mohawk halfbreed missionary was indeed tile the lost dauphin gained for him many adherents although williams steadfastly viala talked that lint lie he was tile the lost dau dan tibia phin nothing ever came of his pretensions and lie died august 23 on the st ile liegus Is reservation de dew der r N Y evidently his nd ad berents were not as steadfast in 0 t air belief as were those of nahrendorf endorf for lie he was hurled buried with masonic rites simply as brother eleazer williams and the plain monument over ills his grave at gansburg IIo bears not the royal crest of the house of bourbon but tile the masonic emblem his name dates of his birth and death perhaps lie he lias has had as much right to the lie title of the lost dauphin as an any y other oilier claimant but history story lil has opt not yet been that any of the claims are convincing |