The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-19
TIE AMERICAN DAUPHIN.
From the llcirship to the Crown OF France,
Charles Louis Dcsccnds Until Hc Bc.
comes a Member OF Tribe Of Half.
breed Indians.

rTom the hclrship TO the Crown or France,
Charles Louis Dcsccnds Until Hc Bc.
comes a Member Of Tribe of Half.
breed Indians.
From the Chicago Herald.
When the people of France, stung to
desperation by long and cruel wrongs
under the monarchy which for 800 years
had enslaved and Inundated them, in
1893 deposed and put to death their
sovereign, Louis XVI. and his queen,
the beautiful Austrian, Marie ANTON
cite. they left alive the Dauphin
Charles Louis. a boy years old. Him
the reigning republicans consigned to
the cruel care of one Simon, the cob
bier. Him the royalists proclaimed
king as Louis XVII. Simon's care made
the boy an imbecile, almost an idiot.
He was grievously afflicted with scrof-
ulous sores in his legs, especially about
the knees This boy was an elephant on
the hands Of the chosen democratic
leaders of the French. people, and was
equally worthless to the royalists. so
IT was agreed in 1894 that committee
should find means Of sending the son of
Louis out OF the republic. But he was
sick. 1t can readily be supposed there
was an agreement made between the
two hostile factions. to both of whom
he was an eyesore, to relieve them
selves of his presence. On the 9Th of
June l'9o' 1t was reported to the conven-
ton he was dead, and three surgeons
testified that he was the victim of scrof-
ula. He was no more in the way of
Louis XVIII. and the royalists, and his
case no further troubled the republican
rulers of France.
ABOUT the same time there appears at
Caughnawa, N. Y, in the family Of
Ihomas Williams, half-breed of the
81. Regis Indians, branch of the
Oneida tribe. boy about 10 years old.
VINO Is OF weak intellect-almost an
iciat. All the other children of the
faAily, eleven in number, had distinct
ly marker characteristics, like their
mother. full-blooded Iroquois The
other, Eleazer had the face and figure
of a European. In about 1893, when
the idiot boy was called IA years old,
he fell from high rock into the water,
was rescued insensible, and after some
time resumed animation. From that
tint he was no longer an idiot. He
was sent with his brother, John, to
school at Long Meadow, Mass, with a
Mr.. Ely. In 1926 he was ordained as a
Clergyman of the" Episcopal church.
He resided at intervals with the Iro-
quoi> about Green Bay, Wis, and with
the ST. Regis band in the northern part
of New York. In 1S41 he met the Prince
de Joinyille, son of Louis Philippe.
After long conversation with the sup
posed Indian the prince announced to
him that instead Of being the son Of
halfsbreed Thomas Williams he was
Louis XVII of France, the supposed
dead idiot boy Of Louis XVI, wherein
the Daurhin Louis XVII was to abdi-
cate and relinquish in favor of the then
reign.ng sovereign, Louis Philippe, his
right and title to the throne of France,
and ia consideration of the relinquish-
ment the king was to provide for the
dauphin with a princely establishment,
either in Europe or America, as he
should choose. This document, evident
ly prepared In Paris, the prince asked
williams to sign as Charles Louis, the
dead dauphin, whose death in the tenn
pie of Paris was believed to have oc-
Cured nearly fifty years before, but
Williams refused.