The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-08

hcsts Tia estates. ~ well ~ Of his cnsez-
satnshsr, % the elan u Fraser. BIZ reason
o. his hesng cescend~t frcm . much naors
remote holder Of the Lcvzt pssrage snAn
the claimant
TIA missing evsdenoe b n tho shape q
tswelyy and documents. q portion OF
whzeh latter have been found IA the ccf-
FMS Ia the family raarSoieam On the Beau
fort estate 81 Scotland. fzasuanch ~ the
present T<crs Lnvat veEy naturally de-
cs.red 20 give permission for thu mat
.0leun 20 be opened and THE collins % h.s
IA depriging him Of bis successSocA tina
narseieum had 10 h~ broken open Il night
and under circumstances OF great perl
By aen in the pay Of the claimant.
O.her documents were found IN a secret
vault L an old house az Efrkhafl IN
Scotland while yet mere papers. aud Ike
wise some 5eweiry. Ira inscriptions OF
which are Of the utmost importance. were
found concealed behind the wa.nscofeina
OF the wal Of very old building in tbs
nsixhhcrhood OF the Tower Of London
Nobody seems 10 know exactly whether
these Jewels and papers had been con-
ceaied there by Simon. Lord Loyat- the
traitor tfor that IL the nickname by which
he Is known Ia Scotch history. or
whether. perhaps. they had been hidden
there by the executioner who deca plated
prerogatsve. the clothes ard all the per-
sonai effects Of the criminals pu. to
death hy him belonged
IL seems that this old traitor had an
elder brother. who. having had the mis-
fortune TO kill piper in a 81 Of passion.
was Obliged 10 Zee for his Efs to Wales.
where he died in impoverished circum-
stances. leaving son who ought In real
ity to have succeeded to the peerage III
stead o. ''the traitor" his Uncle.
The presen: claimant Is a direct de-
scendant OF the elder brother OF s'tha
traitor" and his grandfather ard great
grandfather before him were ordinary
Welsh miners He himself is, however.
q wealthy man and likewise a wen eau-
fer the conflict for the peerage and es-
tA.es. His claims are supported and
championed By several of the leading
members Of the Scottish bar Including
the Hon. James Balfour. a, ona time
lord advocate general. and the trial has
already commenced In the court Of session
At Edinburgh.
Among the many peculiar features Of
the case Is the fact that the present Earl
Lovat, defeated. viii merely lose his
estates. but not his title. The queen con-
ferred upon his grandfather an English
pecrage under the tile OF Lord Loyat
some forty years ago. and 1t was only
subsequently that he secured from the
crown the removal Of the attainder that
rested upon the patent OF the Scotch bar
ony Of Lovat. Consequently. II the
claimant wins there Will be two Lord
Lovats. the one a Scotch and the other an
English peer.
Another point about this cause celebre
Is that II the claimant wins the Roman
Catholic and Presbyterian churches viii
suffer heavy losses The so-called sus-
tentation fund OF the latter church holds
mortgage OF nearly $2.0oo 90 on a portion
of the Loyat estates. the mortgage having
been contracted by the father of the pres
ent peer.
The same Lord Lovat likewise presented
much valuable landed property to the
Roman Catholic church, to which he. like
his son, the present peer belonged. Now.
in case the claimant carries the day. all
the deeds Of gift. as we'll as the mort
cages of the late Lord Loyat. viii become
!pso facto invalid, and while the Preshy
terrain church viii lose In the neishhor-
hood Of $2.o0o0e0. the Roman Catholic
church In Scotland will forfeit an i'm
mense amount of valuable property, on
portion OF which the principal monas-
terry In the United Kingdom has been
erected at vast cost.
Young Lord Lovat is very decent
young fellow, who Is an osYicer In the life
Guards and who has achieved distinction
as steeplechaser and as an amateur
actor. Until short time before he at
tanned his majority he acted as host to
couple OF interesting adventurers ad-
sanced In years, who styled themselves
Counts OF Albany" and who claimed TO
be descended from Charles Stuart. the
young pretender. Their pretensions were
credited by many of the Scotch mobiles,
including the late Lord Lovat. who placed
az their disposal house situated on an
island OF one Of the loohs in his Inverness
shire property.