The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-05-25


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ls he threw down the pa
hiGh sheS had been reading, and bes
MI King the hoor In great excite
q 2As soon as II got TO- the. door,
That ne was great Y trout led ana llel
'S1 very sorry for II He turned Sto
d " staring. the deepest
MIMI irarnie convnised It'll emo tion. He
4 tls ato q pair, of irons in the dre-
I iplace and Said 10 me, Little felIoW. can an
2you eat ihUse irons p I said that 7 could
not them he replied u have %
harder task than that. Young Napo-
\ leon IS dead, and with him dies az
hope uf ever going back to France, Of
seeing wife and children and home and
sfriends.' eithen walked the floor. and
I'll the most tpathet terms bewailed 1 his
unhappy lot. I never saw such grief.
5An OF HIS scholars were deeply affected,
for they almost worshipped the man.
Ina few minutes he dismissed his
school Il 's,...e -! n I
{ Col. homas. r, Houston, OF Hous-
tonic, No, formerly of Iredell county,
AZ. C., says that on one occasion Mr. Ney
related to him The circumstances of his
escape as follows: Much Of history,
said he. ssis false, History says that
Marshall Ney was executed, but 1t is
rot true. was sentenced to be execu-
ted, ana was marched out for that
purpose. but the soldiers detailed to do
the work were. veterans, and'-I think
he said--"belonged to my old command.
AS Il walked by the file Of soldiers l
whispered Aim high My old com
nant In war had been, Aim low-.-at the
heart As / tok my position IN front
of the file refusing to have my eyes
handaged, l raised my hand and gave
the command Fire! They fred and ]
was s1,ronounced dead, and my body was
delivered to my friends for interment.
j was secretly conveyed to Bordeaux,
from which place sailed to America,
landing in Charlestown, S. 81 think
he saids--"Jan.: 8. 1876" 5s
Mrs. Mary c.. Dalton confirms the
statement made by her brother Col.
Houston. She says she knew Mr.. Ney
intimately. He avoided strangers, and,
thuogh he was grave and intrepid as
any one could be- he was In constant
fear of assassi nation. She had, often
heard, him speak of his wife and chil-
dren, and said his wife had dark eyes
and long black hair; and when asked
why he did not bring his wife to Amer
lea, he said he had several reasons,
one was that it would then be found out
where he was, and it would be danger
GUS for his wife to come over to this
country. After the death of Napoleon's
son, however, he seldom spoke of going
back to France, and in 1886 he seemed
to have lost ali hope Of ever returning
torehis native country. DIR. Adams, OF
Ssatesyill. II. c., writes: Il have been
entirely satisfied in my own mind since
1e42 that Peter Stuart Ney, who taught
school within a hundred yards OF my
residence for two years or more, and is
nov buried in Third Creek church,
ward, was the veritable MARSHALL Ney.
j met him often and I observed him
closely"
Gen. Harlleee, of Florence, S. c., says
that 'son one occasion the governor Of
South Carolina attended q military re-
view of the state troops and invited Pc
ter Ney to act as his aid-de-canlp. Mr..
Ney accepted the invitation and APP
pearssd with the governor at the review
mounted on a magnificent charger which
had been procured for him. His milf
tary bearing was superb. His easy,
graceful horsemanship and his i COM
manding presence attracted everyone's
attention
Archie Foard was the colored man
who attended Mr.. Ney during his last IL
ness Foard says: II nursed Mr.. Peter
Ney while he was sick. He was sick, u
think, about two weeks. He was very
thankful for what did for him. He
said to me: You are very good to me,
Archie. and I will reward you when 4
get we'll Sometimes ne would hug his
pillow and say, Oh, my wife! my wife!
I felt so sorry for him, for he was just as
good 80 me and the other cOlOred people
as any mat could be. One day he said,
7'Oh, can't stand it any longer. II get
we'll I must SO back and see my wife and
children I heard him say two or three
times that he was Marshal Ney, but i
didn't know who Marshal Ney was. He
had wounds all over him. I don't know
how many he had
Mr.. Thomas 2. Graham helped to
nurse Mr.. Ney In his last illness. One
aay Peter Ney described to Mr.. Graham
The battle OF Waterloo. He drew a plan
pf it and marked Off the position of the
erlnies. u During his last illness Mr.. Graz
nam heard him say frequently that he
vas Marshal Ney.
Il Perhaps the most remar kable testi-
money in the whole book is that of Mi. r.
A. Henderson, attorney at law, Topeka,
Kan. Mr.. Henderson's grandfather, Rob-
ert Laird. Was one Of the persons repre-
Ssenting the English army appointed to
witness the execution of Marshall Ney,,
on Dec. Z, 1915, and Mr.. Henderson
states: 81 have heard him say often
that Ney was not executed: that he saw
NeS fall, viewed the body saw 1t taken
up and carried away,saw 1t in hehospi-
tai, but that Nsy was not hurt; that the
,Eo-oalled execution was a farce. He al:
ways affirmed this in the most positive
manner He said Marshal Ney's fall was
and that the supposed bullet
marks upon his person were artificial:
He said The guns contained blank cart
ridges. Marshal Ney was not shot,
While in the army Sergeant Laird kept a
private diary, and this diary is now in
Mr.. Henderson',s possession, and it con-
Arms his statement as to the alleged exc
3tution. Ssf.. 4
ut is said that the Duke of Wellington
sonnaved at Marshal Ney's escape
When we refer to the accounts given
of Marshal Ney's execution in Paris, on.
Dec. Z, 1915. we are impressed with the
circumstances of the event. The execu-
ton was practically private, in an un-5
sfrequented spot at the back OF the Lux
en1burg Gardens. Very few persons were
present, for the populace had gone out to
the Place Grenelle to witness the ,execu-