The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-04
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY AUGUST 4 1874

rulers of France. Much about the same time
there appears at CaughDaWaga, n. y, in the
family of Thomas Williams, half breed OF
the st. Regis Indians branch ofthe Oneida
tribe-a boy about ten years old, who is of
weak intellect, almost an idiot. All the other
children of the family, IL in number, had
distinctly marked Indian characteristics, like
their mother full-blooded Iroquois. The
other, Eleazer, had the face and figure Of a
European. In about 1879, when
THE IDIOT BOY
was called IA years old, he tell from
high rock into the water, was rescued in
sensible. and after some time resumed ami
nation. From that time he was no longer
an idiot. He was sent with his brother John
to school at Long Meadow, Mass, with Mr..
Ely, whose books show that the bills of Ele-
aver Williams were promptly and regularly
paid, while those of John Williams, his re-
puted brother were not. Eleazer was still
at his studies at the breaking out of the war
of 1912, when he was q years old. He was
then, bv the concurrent authorities of the
national and State governments. made
superintendent general of the Northern
Indian Department. took up arms, Joined
in the battle OF Plattsbnrg and others. and
was wounded. lie continued for several
years to occupy confidential relations be-
tween the government and the Indians, by
whom he was recognized one of their
number. In 1896 he was ordained as a cler-
gynan of the Episcopal Church. He resided
at intervals with the IroQuois. about Green
| BAY, Wis., and with the st. Regis band in
the northern part of New York. In 1911 he
met the Prince de Joinville. son OF Louis
/ Philippe. After long conversation with the
supposed Indian, the prince announced to
him that instead of being the son of the
| half-breed Thomas Williams, he was
| Louis XVII, of France. the supposed
4
communication the Prince, who had sought
| Williams from the time of his landing at
New York, placed before him an deliberately
| engrossed parchment and written i'm parallel
columns. in French and English, over the
| seal OF Louis XVI, wherein thu Dauphin,
i Louis XVII, was to abdicate and relinquish
i'm favor of the then reigning sovereign,
Louis Philippe, his right and title to the
throne of France; and in consideration OF
which relinquishment, the King was to pro
vide the Dauphin with princely establish
ment. either in Europe or America, as he
should choose. This document, evidently
prepared at Paris, the Prince asked Williams
to sign, a Charles Louis, the dead Dauphin,
whose death in the temple at Paris was be-
! lieved to have occurred nearly fifty years
before. He refused.
A CANADIAN CASE.
Hannah White, spinster resided in the
family OF her brother. at Sand witch, Can ada
near Detroit, in 1853. In the family were a
5 little boy, Joseph. three and a halt years
2 old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. White, and Sarah
Jane Sladden. 10 years old, daughter of Mrs
White by former husband, a retired East
2 India sea captain. Mrs White one day went
to Detroit for marketing. During her alb
sence the sister-in-law, Hannah White, dis
appeared, and with her the two children
The mother advertised extensively and trav.
: eled far and near searching in vain tor foul
3 years for her lost darlings. No reason could
be imagined as influencing Miss White tC
} carry off the children, unless it was an envi
{ Gus, spiteful revenge against her sister-in
law, or the hope to get posses sion ola Legacy
3 belonging to the little girl from relative O
, her father in England. Seven years latel
/ Mrs. White discovered that Hannah, VIII,
: had been married at Badaxe, Wis, was re
! siding in Detroit, having the boy JOSEPH
with her. After sharply contested lega
proceedings the mother got possession
of the boy, but could get no infor
nation as to the whereabouts of tht
girl. In 1862, White, the grandfathe
of the boy aud father of Hannah, came
to the house Of the mother, and after ex
preSsions Of c)ntrition for the aid he haC
given Hannah in secreting the children, wa
received into the family. He soon afte
tried to abduct the boy the second time. bu
tailed. ard Joined Hannah in Detroit, where
she was then living, having attained
prominent posting in leading church
from which she was subsequent expelled a.
an arrant hypocrit. In 1856. some further
information came to the mother of her long
lost daughter, who, during an interval o
thirteen years, had grown to wOman's estate
and on account of the i'll treatment she re
ceived from her aunt had been forced to talk
II service in the family eff a farmer at Liberty
Pole, Wis.