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Qn,.en imO tl.e rrirtfcs KiiznljWh wore n 1 s f;nt utnler the knife, leaving only the Iinup'iin ni his si-tcr prisoners In the Teniple. lie fore th Queen was executed, however, the Dauphin had hecn separated sep-arated from the rest of his family and held a prise ner hy himself in another part of th hnilding where he was placed under the care of Antolne Simon, an Ignorant shoemaker, and his wife. Simon was to he the youn-prince's youn-prince's tutor with the special object ob-ject of teaching him the democratic ideas of the revolution, am that he taught the hoy, however, was to sin? Ind-ccm songs nd to tall; the rough language of t he lower classes. IIow-'er IIow-'er he was not cruelly treated, us has so often been charged, and enjoyed en-joyed considerable liberty within the "'duple grounds. On January Hi, I7!jl, Simon sudden ly ceased to be the Dauphin's guardian guar-dian arid that night he and his wife eft the Temple. It Is from this moment that the mystery begins. Heretofore many people had been al-lo-ved to see the Dauphin, but from IM. time on he was kept In close i oiiiMicinciit and no one, except the person who an, -nded to his needs, knew an thing ah,.ut the mod,, of IiIm ciistcn, v. Within six month the I'omiiiune had fallen, but the Temple st. II held Its rojal prisoner or, at least, a child who was suppos,.. to be the Dauphin. The last gu.ir.il, in of the Utile prisoner. pris-oner. Ktleune Alsiie, reported Unit the boy wan an lu beelle or very much I. he one anil finally on June S, 17'.'."i this b.. died. All autopsy was performed per-formed and various persons were shown the corpse. Care was taken to preeiii anyone from properly Id. nth (;in; him. A!tho;.i.-li the boy had been b'iri.'l as the vm of I.onls XVI. rumors --r-i-te, lli.it tl.e Dauphin u.is n,,t r.-ally .I. .. I. It Is a plausible ! :!.-.. ry th.it the ie.il prince was taken ; :n. ay from the Temple by Simon ami I that a sah-tltu-e was placed there 1 in h! s;,..,,! - ,;., p!,,!t,.rH I : ' ha te I this M:!.s-i;ut,. In the be I hef that I e w.is ...,Ms XVI!. r.-plac- ;i g l-.ifi witli the boy who actually ! died In I! e Tempi., and was burled as the prin. e, n child who was np iar.-i.ti .lis,..!-,.. ,,, ,,n Imbecile. If this Is- tru-. then the mystery Is mi n-arer t!uti.n than ever before, for tot long after Simon left the I Temj I.-, he was guillotined without revealing what disposition he had made of the real I...i;U XVII. The Dauphin ha. I simply disappeared and not even the tareful researches of this I'r.-neh historian has accounted f..r his ultimate fate. He Is certain that th b..y did not die In the Temple but is um, bio to find any trace of him after his removal by those who Imped to profit thereby but who died before th.-y had the chati.-e to make use "f their opportunity. In the years that followed the disappearance dis-appearance of the real Dauphin and the death of the si;. posed I'rlnee In the Temple, there nine a veritable d'-luu'e of claimants to the title of being the real I.ouis XVII. No less than twenty-live "Lost Dauphins" appeared before Trench courts from time to lime to press their claims and to disturb the pence of mind of the government of France. The most picturesque perhaps of all the claimants was Charles William Wil-liam Natirendorf, who appeared in I'aris In lv'!H as the long missing lost Dauphin. He too, had n long list of documents In support of his nssump tlon thai ho" was of royal blood but when the court heard the evidence this "lo-t Dauphin" wns summarily banished from trance. lie eventually made his home In Delft, Holland, and died In IS 15. So strongly did lie Impress Im-press his claims upon a large group of French royalists that he was hurled hur-led with great ceremony and over his grave In the Delft cemetery was erected a monument bearing these words. "Here reposes Louis XVII, King of France and Navarre, Charles I.ouis, Duke of Normandie, born In Versailles, March 27, ITS-., died In Delft August 10, ISl.j." It Is a far cry from the palace of Versailles and the Temple in I'aris to the little town of Hogansburg, N. Y., and Green Hay, Wis., yet these two American towns have also been concerned in the mystery of the lost Dauphin. Seventy-seven years ago both Europe and America were agog over the assertion of Kev. F.leazer Williams, an Episcopal missionary among the Indians, that lie was the son of I.ouis XVI, and therefore the lost Dauphin of France, Eleazer Wil- Mams was the son of a halfhreed Mohuwk Indian chief, Thomas Williams, Wil-liams, who win descended from Eunice Williams, thd famous Dcertlcl.l captive, and was olio of the family of thirteen halflii Is by Thomas Williams' Wil-liams' Indian wife, Mary Ann Williams. Wil-liams. He grew up among the .Mohawks .Mo-hawks at Ciuighniiw iiga, 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 1SU. Enter he became n missionary among bis father's people, first ss n Cotigreg.i-tloiiallst Cotigreg.i-tloiiallst and later as an Episcopalian. When they and other Iroquois tribesmen tribes-men In New York were belnu harj pressed by the advancing white net-tiers, net-tiers, he was liistru'i etital In obtaining ob-taining lands for them In Wisconsin. At some time during his early career he heard the story of Ihe lost Dauphin Dau-phin and having been told that lie resembled the Ibmrboii I'rlnee, he decided to ndvanci' l.ls claims to the honor of being that person owing to a scrofulous taint In his family, the bruN. s and Injuries, poelv.-.l while he was a child playing with Ids Indian In-dian playmates, p. ft permanent scars which were later In life Icrreased In sU" by artificial means. These he claluie.l to have b.-en the result of the shackles and ihalns with which he was conilned In the Temple. In s.II the I'rlnee de Jolnvllle. s..n of the then 'reigning King I.ouis , Philippe of France, followed his fa- : Iher'.s example and paid r visit to America. During a trip on the Great Lakes the I'rinre found awaiting him at Mackinac a clerlcal-Iooklnp gentleman who asked permission to' accompany Hie Prince's party to Green Hay, Wis. Tills cleric was Eleazer Williams and soon after the ; departure of the Prince from Green Hay. Williams gave out the astonish lug statement that De Jolnvllli ; had acknowledged that he (Wll j liams) was I.ouis XVII, and that the ' Prince had sought him out In the west ! ern wilderness to ask him to re ' nounce his claim to the throne ft France. A few vears later William.- ' told his story to Hev. J. II. Han j son who wrote an article "Have W a Ilourbon Among Es?" which np : pea red In the February. lv",.1, numbei of Putnam's Monthly. When a copv of this magazine was received li England, where the Prince de Join viTIe was then living as an e-ille fron France, he Immediately repudiate!' the alleged Interview- and denounce'' Williams as an Impostor. However j a hook hy Hanson, "The Lost Prince." wlilch gave a detailed account of Wll Hams' life, and which proved to tin satisfaction of the author, at least that the Mohawk halfbreed mission ary was indeed the lost Dauphin gained for him many adherents. Although Williams steadfastly i lain tained that he was the lost Dau pliln, nothing ever came of his ire tensions and he died August "8. 1S."? on the St. llegls reservation nors Hogansburg, N. T. Evidently his nd lierenls were not as steadfast in tl.eii belief as were those of Naurenrlorf for he was burled with Masonic rites simply as "Hrothcr Eleazer Williams," and the plain monument over his grave at Hogansburg bears not the royal crest of the house of Hour bon, but the Masonic emblem, his name, dates of ills blrtli and death. Perhajis lie has had as much right to the title of the lost Dauphin as any other claimant but history lias not yet been convinced that any of the claims are convincing. |