The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-18
A FIFTH NAPOLEON?
Claims That the Prince Imperial il Still
Alive.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.


From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
London. Nov. 3.-NapoIeoon V.-and why
not? The third of that ilIustrious name
was no less of an adventurer than the
fifth promises to be. And as to parentage
the offspring of an English commoner-
the Duke of Fife is d commoner too
ranks at least equal with the son of Queen
Hortense, about whose father history has
less decided notions than about the reIa-
tons between her and her stepfather the
Great Napoleon.
The world has waited long and patiently
for the reasons that prompted the ex-
Empress Eugene to send her only son, the
Prince Imperial, to the senseless Zulu
war, where glory was hidden in d cloud of
10000 poisoned arrows, like a pin in d hay
stack, At last an explanation is offered:
Louis Napoleon had contracted a mar
rage with a young Euglishwoman; more,
he had a son by the wife OF his first love.
The eX-Empress' greatest failing has al
ways been almost insane ambition. Hay
ms exchanged a divan in her mothers
gambling den in the Rue St. Antoine No.
10, third story, as the Paris police has it,
for the leading throne of the world and
! the latter for honored widowhood, that
placed the Ci-divant heroine of many ann
OrOuS adventures on a footing Of equality
with her crowned sisters a repetition of
! the Elizabeth Patterson scandal was not
to be tolerated. Napoleon l. robbed, by
the stroke of a pen, his brother jerome Of
a wife and instead gave him a crown.
/ The Grandnephew of the bigamous ex-king
of Westphalia Jared even worse. When
his son was but four months old he had
to abandon wife and child that they might
gain the necessities of life; he had to risk
his young life to escape the unheard-of
prosecutions of the woman who, before
the world, posed as THE most loving of
mothers
In his book The Prince Imperial. "
that left the press In Paris in September,
the Comte d Herisson intimates that Louis
was either foully murdered in Africa or
that he is still alive and kept from return
ing to Europe for unknown reasons. The
latter part of this strange information
comedies sinsularly enough with an item
of news that reached the queen of Eng
land some days ago.
1t was reported to her majesty that the
memorial stone erected by her orders at
the spot where the Prince Imperial fell
/ under the spears of the blacks in 1879 COR
where he was said to have died. according
to d'Herisson), had beeen secretly re-
stated. had no commercial value whatever,
. especially not in Africa. 1t is furthermore
well known among the tribes that tho
body of the prince is not buried thore. SO
that grave robbers could not hope to ac-
quire even moderate compensation for
gholuish work by finds of jewels or dec
orations
There being no motive whatever for the
theft on the part of the blacks but in
deed, the strongest arguments against il
the vengeance ana punishment threat
ened by the English, and the horror of
superstitious natives 10 enter upon the
domainof the dead, which, in their opin-
ion, is watched jealousy by demons
the conclusion forces itself upon our mind
that the dread deed was cammitted for
some political reason. If the prince be
/ living, as dHerisson suggests, he him
self may have caused the removal of the
tomb stone as a preliminary to his reap
pearance.
or else those with him in the conspir-
acy may have done 50 for some reason or
other
And weighing these possibilities in my
mind, the remembrance Of conversation
/ had with one Of the present attendants
of the eN-Empress Eugene comes back
to me- Her majesty gets singularIv ex-
cited whenever the name of the prince
I imperial is mentioned said this iinfor-
mant; lit is not a sensation of anguish
with her am sure, worry and fear seem
to predominant in her mind at that mo-
ment. This is especially true with ref
erence TO newspaper reports read TO her"
II would be iutless at the present writ
ing TO further speculate upon the in
cideuts and surmiscS above set forth.
Napoleon ~, dead or alive, murdered
or slain ia battle, the facts at hand ius-
tify only a consideration OF the circun-
stances that sent the prince imperial to
Africa and his son to the almshousc
10 Is not exactly am almshouse where
Louis Napoleon Moore" is kept ON
about % cents day which must suffice
for his food and lodging ana clothes IA
well 40 least 70 looks preteuuous enough.
being the old castle in which Alargte-
rite DE Nalols. who brought 100 Tine King
of France visionary claims to thr renim
Of tho two Sic lies. was wont to sraud
her summers away from Paris. vhIrb
at that time was quite H distance from me-
capital To-day th, Village of lsay pau boz