The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-06-27
No. 81

Of water, seldom replenished, was
given him for drink, and some coarse
food was occasionally thrown in at the
half open door. He was allowed no
means of washing himself, his bed
was not made for six months, and
for more than year his clothes, his
shirt and his shoes were not changed.
By prolonged inactivity his limbs be-
came rigid, and his mind, through
terror, grief and monotony, became
imbeciIe and deranged. Something
that he said in reply to questions
having been perverted to the injury
Of his mother, he resolved henceforth
to be silent, and for a long period
neither threats nor blows, nor coax
ings could induce him to speak.
When not sleeping be sat quietly in
his chair, without uttering a sound
or shedding a tear, or shrinking from
the rats with which his dungeon
sWarmed. Louis, after the reign Of
terror, was placed under the care Of
more merciful keepers, but he was
still kept iusolitary confinement, and
not allowed to see his sister, who was
imprisoned in an adjoining apartment.
At length, in May, 1895, physician
was allowed to see him, who pro,
nOunced him dying of scrofula. He
died at two p. M, in the arms Of
Lasne, one of his keepers, and the
next day, June 8, his body was identi-
fed and certified to by four members
of the Committee of Public Safety
and by more than twenty Of the Of
fcials Of the Temple. His remains
we're buried in the cemetery of St.
Marguerite, and every trace of the
grave carefully obliterated. Several
pretenders, claiming 10 be Louis
XVII, have appeared among them,
in France, IerVagart, tailOr's son,
who died in 1912, in prison, and
Bruneau, shoemaker, who was sent
to prison, in 1902; and in the United
States, the Rev. Eleazer Williams, a
half breed Indian, who died in 1859
THE CHILDREN IN THE TOWER.
The amour Of Edward the Fourth
suggested to his brother the Duke Of
Gloster, afterward the notorious
Richard III, means of attaining the
throne. He even did not hesitate to
malign his own mother, affirming
that the resemblance of Edward Nv
land of the Duke of Clarence to notO-
rious gallants, was a sufficient proof
of their spurious birth, and that the
Duke of Gloster alone, of all his sons
appeared by his features and counter
ance to be the true offspring Of the
Duke of York. Shakespeare and
history have made the murder of th'
babes in the Tower familiar story
as we'll as that of the numerous pre-
tenders, among whom were Lamber
Simnel and Perkin Warbeck, so it un
unnecessary to give recapitulatiol
0 here. The account of Sir Thoma
. Moore, which was collected from tn
f confession Of the murders i
: the next reign, is as follows: Th1
r Richard had in vain tampered wit
the Governor of the Tower, Bracker
f bury, to put them to death, br
d found ready instrument for the eX,
= cutiOn of his purpose in Tyre
l. his master of horse that Tyrrell W
[. dispatched commission to recei'
N the keys of the Tower for one nigh
4 and that during that night he watch,
Of without, while one of his grooms, a
companied by a notorious assassi
entered the sleeping room of i
., princes, stifed them both with feath
IL beds and pillows, buried their bod
n at the foot of the staircase. I
as testimony of Moore is almost &C
ia temporaneous with the event itse
as and is confirmed by the honors yhi
II. were certainly conferred upon
an alleged murderers. In the reign
h Charles II, when alterations W
ed made in the Tower, there was fOu
,as at the foot of an old stairway
rie present shown to visitors), heap
he decayed bones, which proved to
m. those of two boys. The indicati
~ we're deemed sufficient that they
He Ilonged to the unfortunate Edward
lis. and his brother, and they were
pak moved, by royal command, to W
fnl minister Abbey, where an inscript
re-, beginning, "0ssa desideratoram
ge. ct n,siltunl qu1esita," was placed u
fbs the monument. So well concert
wal matter as the death Of royal pri
he leaves room for paradoxes and
21 toric doubts; but it is certain
~ though the name of Edward V st
Who on the list of English sOvereigns
and hardly the shadow Of reign ;
tbo under the dark protectorship o
lsan uncle he went speedily from
tbo palace to the prison, within "
stro precincts he found secret death
,.nc. burial. Notwithstanding these
: 70 roborations, there are many a
and the English nobility who stilI
verns lieve the princes escaped, and
~ - house in Yorkshire claims to b
e., direct descendants of Edward \
WIN -" In Richmoned, Indiana, a
. q" ~ hundred pound niger fell fror
n