St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-18
The Prince Napoleon Expires
in Dreadful Agonies
at Rome.
The Death Chamber Is Now
Converted Into a Mort
uary Chapel.
Many Italian Women and
Children Drowned in Glib
Paltar Bay.
Celebration of Solemn Mass
for the Soul of DR..
WindthopSt.

ROME, March 17.-Prince Napoleon
is dead. The Able Puiol, it is an
nOunced this afternoon, previous to the
princes death. administered the last
sacrament of the Roman Catholic
church. The prince expired at 7:1O a.
m. The united strength of four men
was required to keep the dying prince
in bed, and his cries caused by the pain
which he suffered were audible i'll the
street. Prince Napoleon has left his
memoirs and his entire correspondence
in the hands of Frederick Mason. This
afternoon, after consultation with the
other physicians in attendance,
DR.. BacelIi informed King Hum
bert that the end was near.
The last agony soon followed
Prince Victor, shortly before the end,
entered the room in which his father
was dying, but was so overcome with
emotion that he left the apartment Sob
bling violently. The funeral or Prince
Napoleon will be conducted with re-
ligiuuS ceremonies. The death cham
Der has been converted into mOrtuary
chapel, hung with black cloth and with
back velvet. An altar has been
erected against the wall on one side of
the room. The body OF Prince NapOl
con will be inferred in the crypt of the
royal mauSoleum in the Church of La
Superga, on the Collina Heights,
near Turin. The Able PujOt, in an
interview. said he gave the
sacrament to Prince Napoleon at 6
o'clock this morning, when the latter
WAS i'll full possession Of his faculties.
He (the PRIEST had conVersed with the
prince on the subject of his religious
opinions, and the dying man had said he
dsd not profess the atheiStic sentiments
( attributed to him: that ne was inclined
toward ROusseau'S doctrines and that
/ he would die like an emperor, adhering to
tine principles of the cOncOrdat and fully
| imDued with the religious sentiments
! of the BOnapartes. Able PuiOt SAYS he
considers that this statement justified
MIN an administering the sacrament to
the prince.
LONDON. March 17.--The Times
/ Paris correspondent, commenting on
j the death of Prince Napoleon, deals
severely with the attendant eircum-
{ stances of the death scene. He says:
Religious fanaticism and human
ambition met at the sick bed,
where modern science had prolonged
for a fortnight life other
wise ended long ago. Church and
throne disputed for possession of the
body, which each desired to convert
into trophy. Bigotrv on one side and
thirst for power on the other pro-
lOnged horrors t0the dying agony. Each
had recourse to lying in order to sImu-
late success. Public opinion is re-
VOTED by the hideOus zeal of those who
torture the dying in order to
make them clients of the confess
ional. 1t is revolted still more
by the rebel son who persists in
rebellion in order to secure ephemeral,
useless power. The cOnfessors. cardi-
mails, nuns, and other religious people
have shown willingness to revive all
the horrors of the middle ages. The
only one who leaves the horrible scene
with higher reputation is the prince
himself. who preserved intact his force
of will to die as he had lived, with
horror of counterfeit in his soul and
with contempt Tor hypOcrites on his
lIpS."