The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-29
AN APPEAL To THE VATICAN.

Mrs. Kent's tory is generally be-
lieved by German revolutionists, and
its publicity is largely due to the help
which they have given her. Its i'm
mediate interest now, however, is due
to the Emperor of Germany's death
and to the steps which Mrs. Kent has,
in consequence, been taking to recover
what she considers her bitthright. A
few DAYS ago, it is said she transmitted
for safe keeping to the Vatican all the
documentary evidence in Ter posses
sion, wi h instruction. that itshall not
be pu 5lished until ce-i ain parties are
dead, and since then it is stated Oh the
same authority she las changed her
mind somewhat, and, in view of recent
events, has decided to lay her case
before the British House of Lords aad
to appeal to that legislative body
for Justice. She is convinced she
says, that Prince Albert, on
his cath bed, told Qceen Victoria how
strangers chlld had been substituted
for her own, and she is equally con-
vinced tina: Queen Victoria, on her
de sth bed, will make public confession
OF the whole story and will do her best
70 repair the wrong that has been done
to her child. Evidently, however,
Mrs. Kent has grown weary OF waiting
for her alleged mothers public confess
sion, and has deter mined to fight for
what she considers her birLhright. She
might have held her peace forever had
tie world treated her fairly we'll, but
her friends say that the handsome an
nuity which she used to receive from
some mysterious source in England had
suddenly stopped, and that poverty
and inability to make both ends meet
have forced her to make her story pub
lie. The same friends say that during
her childhood and early womsnhood
She was plentifully supplied with
money. and that the last remittance
20 he: - ONLY few days: before the
death of Q1een Viotorla m999s taY?rise
Attendant. Since then she las not re-
ceiyed q penny from England, and has
been obliged TO support herself by
writing autobiographIcal sketches and
other literary work.
Personally Mrs. Kent is stout, ford
and not unlike Queen Victoria. Her
nortrsIt. indeed, is strangely like
that of her alleged mother, and
has strangely impressed many per-
sons, to whom her queer story seems
utterly incredible. Mrs. Kent ism the
city at present. and is doing her pest TO
win sympathy for herself and her
cause. She is said to have many,
friends, and Herald reporter learned
enough Yesterday TO satisfy him that
she Intends to begin the fight for her
so-called birthright without much fur
Their delay. Her name, by the way, is
an adopted one tniany members of the
Guelph family have borne it), and is not
that of her deceased husband, who was
a journalist. -,
What the result will be cannot be
coniectured. Prominent Germans de-
cline to discuss the matter, and the few
WIZ expressed an opinion insisted that
their names shou7d not be published.
John Most, who was seen IN the Frelhest
Office. No. l67 William Street, Paid that
he had heard Mis-. Kent's story, but did
not care to express an opinion about
it. .sWhat concerns anarchists just
now he continued. lis the TACT lnat
in spite of the Emperor of Germany 8
death Bismarck is still the ruler and
will continue TO rule as long as ne
Iliyes."-New York Herald.