Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-16
A STORY THAT HAS TRAyTIrr
AROUND THE WORLD.
PROF. BREDA AN INNOCENT VICTIM
lie Denounced the Fraud. H..
Some One Prioted n statcu.
That He Had Declared the "Ffns,
Genuine.
dor the Dlspatch3
Genuine.

| scented as lalllng Nlcum To OBJ. ...-
and which aroused TO high pitch .f ...
pectation the hope OF historian F. r.s
and other countries, only 20 cruelty I...
them 10 rhc ground. The hoax f...
with the placing, In the neighbour 10
Kensington. Douglas county. Mr. ..
stone on which were chiseIll ,.
! mysterious characters that BOO 0ra .a ....
vicinity could decipher
Who cut the mysterious char. F.,
the stone and placed Sc where .t .o.l f,
found has not been discovered ar. ....
ably never Will Doe, FOR fhe r..
Joker has stirred up such O hornets, ...,
that II he is as clever as his fos- ..H
Gates he Will continue 90 enjoy ODD. .
ton in silence. Practical iokar ..
! been lynched before now The man o..
found the stone has also dropped ..
sight for the good of bis health ~
| story therefore begins with fn. r.. ...
| by Professor O. j. Brela. Unl...
! Minnesota. OF copy of ths h.eroc.....
/ that were carved ON The stone T.
! covery' was laid before the i.ar I.
! lessor with tho eager request .... ..
| carefully examine the character. ..
possible. decipher them.
Professor Breda recognized at ...s -..
mystic writing known 4s .Eur... ...
would fain have reported thar f.. E
sington people had n their r
the first vRunc Stone" ever discovered ..
America. To be ~ "a position t mall.
such a report would nave mad. .0H .,
own name and that OF che town r...
which the stone was found lr
throughout the world for tha chsr....-.
IL genuine, could not have ha.r ..t D..
than many centuries ago. and .he t..f.s
men possessed of a know. i.a .. E.r.
writing having been I'm Nrn.oa attt.
period might have chaugel OBJ. r.-I .s
early American history
Translated by Pr0fes.or Bred. oil. .-
scription ran. with certain ......t.r-
able words omitted.
"Swedes and - Nors,m.1 rn a 1a.-
ncy of discovery from IH r..f
we campod ono day.. n.r..r r.r.,
from this stone. We f,..l 0.. l.. 49,
ter we came home ua found -r
with blood and dead AElf .... nom
- have -- m.u 90 I... .... f. |.
after our ships - Days un.. rm
this island. Year
All very pretty 1ri deeply interesting.
The only daN thrown .r ... ..r.y
was Professor .ru.... ......-
NlllA NIAN NI.N
perpetrated by som. s.s with k..-
edge of Runic ch.... I...
Of KinsingtO1 po.t.l ...r Il..I
professors decision I H.
Rune Stone % make them lm
They had glorious visions o mn.
with the residents of rival towns I
graudlloqu announ..us " ...
v.0us noighbOrs that they nl. ...I u ta
city where the famous Elnc Stone r1
found. II Professor BrelA Has ...
fuse as 90 fail % see that tne H.I s
was genuine. ,hey would $50 u
learned professor and Insist upon
ing IL In Che light that pleased -h.m
So the Kensingt0n delegation rlIu.. l
backs on Professor Breda and c.uu-
Gated with Professor q. 3D.. Curm.
University, Evans,
Professor Curme was inclined f0 k
that the find was a genuine Rum
and he even decipherei the date
Inscription as 1862. making 10 out o.
very venerable relic.
BY this time the learned men . H
DID World got wind of the discovery 4
he cable brought eager requests ..r .-
ails. Nothing loath the kenslnstol
Pie flashed back the fullest ra
ars at the current rates l0r su.u..H.
D
lave ch0rtcd with g.ce. tor Oh.
biologists OF the old World swallowed
he stone with avldity and eagerly ai
or more hoping that the investigations
hat Kensingt0u people We're chen nuke
ng in the mud of the neigh5orlug marshes
would bring forth further diseos.l.
Soon came the disquetns reR. .tt
Professor Curme after more clr.l-
had given out sa..H
hat the inscription had all
T a fake" Following imme
his statement came IL cables tr.m
rOfessOr g. Storm and q. Rygh
ania, Sweden, declaring that a.
allied Runic stone was "a grand fr
arpetrated by Swede with "a ch.- lrl
slight knowledge of Ruuic character
ld Of English"
Professor Breda had reason 20 g.oat
'cr this vindicdt0n or himself. and h4
Ould have g.oatei accordingly but Tor
e fact that The fake had eumeshed him
It's sweeping whirL n telling the
Dry Professor Breoa said to the writer:
After my views that tne stone WAS 81
ke had been confirmed by others o.
nom d. was submitted. ] found % my
'cdt surprise that some liar iu Chicago
ld teleel aphed % England and Noraaf
ldt ! had pronounced the thing gCuu..
have been compelled tO write tO paper.
Norway 20 correct this entirely crr-
,ous report. 40 not know whefh.
ave been reported correctly lu tle caste
n papers As FAR as ] know tho pap..f
the West have had it correctly.
lould very much hate 20 go On record d.
lstern papers as one who has been taksa
by such transparent rake. lf
Yer az all 70 thc matter again. H
pa kindly set me riBAt before the I.
Setting the worthy Professor right l.-
re the public Us not am easy mates.
axes travel faster than facts. as .
knows The story O- '
une Stone with the erdor merf as t
scrpuon's genuineu ss 1f'.f.-l fn
ssOr Breda by the ".iar iu Chicago s
z this time been read 10y lhe st4oaU. M
lcient lore in Hindostau. pored Oyer H
'spectacled men NJ learning Boz Eur
STA, and Australia. and VIII Dob N.
respected places and with the mos.
a0rdlnary vitality for long long rt
come. The joker certainly d.l .'
ork well
For the beneht OF those 90 whom e
rm 'ruulc stone Is as much "a
would Dee The characters. Or Doll.
e!l 20 state in conclusion that tlc
ere the earliest alphabet BOB 1853.
g Teutonic and Gothic nations lt
n Europe. The exact period of
lgn Is not known. The name ls l.t
ym the Teutonlc "run.' myr
hence "runa," a whisper. and "ll
and the original use pf
aracters seems 20 have been iNr
rpOse OF secrecy and dlyinltl0n.
semblance which some of OBJ.
Gracters bear 20 the Phen.C.an
q, and others derived from TO-
the supposition that they wer
.rCduced by Phenician merchants
AIDED with the coasts of the Balt..
lille the mass OF the people wrf
we'd biIf "a very TIINlIl LINNN..
m them the priests systcmatizel
q retained full knowledge az '..i
their own hands. no doubt nlt.uE
eful IN establishing reputa