The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29
IN LONDON'S OLD TOWER.
STRANGE AND INTERESTING DIS
CoVERY MADE THEREIN.
Find q Horrtd ouhtiette-Duugeon
Measures About seven Feet Across
All Persons Imprisoned Therein
Must Have Periahed Very soon.

~ HE building OF the new guard
room IN the inner bailey 81 the
fower oG London has le1 10 IL
strange and interesting dis
IL ctSery. ana enhanced the nays-
terry and romance which have
gathered for centuries around rs gray
walls ana ositeuleots-
The new suartroou occupies 'he
space between RE R.oody tower ard the
White tower upon the right IS YOU enter
the inner ward. ana in preparing its
foundations a SubterTanean passage was
discovered cor. 10 be accurate, rediscos-
cred for lis existence was known de-
forel. extending from the moat near The
Traitors gate beneath st Thomas tower.
IN the direction II the southwest angie OF
the White tower. The passage is lined
throughout with Norman masonry and
has level fooV. II was eyiden, at once.
therefore, that IL was not drain or cui-
vert. for in that case 4; would have had
a rounded bottom. and ST became = mat
ter Of interest "a follow II both ways.
toward the muay ana toward The White
tower. for the purpose Of ascertaining
whether 1t communicated directly Win
the interior Of the White tower, formins
thus. An outlet 10 the uoat from the lew
or portion OF the keep where the dun
geons are situated. X seemed most likely
tion has been disappointed. The passage
does. indeed lead to a dungeon, and
most horrible one. hut there Is no COM
munication with the White tower. II runs
straight from the moat into the dungeon,
but the dungeon is completely Isolated
from all parts Of the fortress. and It's
communication with the upper air IA by
- shaft which descends into the passage
By permission o; the Office Of works n
representative q the Daily Graphic VAS
allowed 10 descend the shaft ami inspect
the passage and the dungeons under the
guidance ~ NJ May. the clerk Of the
works Arris ing a. the tower and present
ing his pass AZ the office Of Mr. May, that
gentleman hrst exhibited 10 his visitor IN
the little yard behind his office the objects
discovered in clearing out the shaft ana
passage. These consist mainly OF masses
Of green glazed ware such a. Mas com
mon throughout the middle ages, several
broken brown Jugs. known bellarmtnes
ana pieces % colorei delft and Fulham
wara-an. no doubt. fragments OF IN"
broken utensils ~ the garrison thrown
down me shaft after Che dungeons mad
ceased 20 be used. IN Eslzabethan times
ard later. Mere interesting than these
relies are numbers u cannon balls. or
stone and o: iToH. which were found In the
excavation. Some OF the iron balls have
marks on them one has been found mark
ed with thu letter r." TO other pieces
= bone and timber are stil adaerius. II
i believed. with great probability, that
some a: least Of these round shot were
fired At the tower by the Protestant rebels
under Sir Thomas WYATT. The r. mark
on one % ,hc balls may be that OF the
arsenal al Rochester, - which the rebels
had access before advancing on London.
wyatt. as is well known. headed a re-
bellion Of Kentish men when the fear
spread that the SDaniards were coming n
conquer the realm after the queen had
set her heart OH the marriage with Philip