The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-31

from a polished board in the library or
 Mrs, Henry w. King, l5l Rush street. I It is the same sword which the poet llp- orator carried while in command or a l band of Suliotes in the vicinity of Mis-
 solonght. It was brought to America | by Colonel J. P. Miller, a resident Of | Vermont. the father of Mrs. sarah Mll-
 Ter Keith, who died last week from in-
 juries resulting from an accident while | she was visiting al the residence or tor- mer Senator c. B. Farwell.
 1 Colonel Miller went to Greece in 1924 as volunteer in the Greek army, ana
 after the siege and battle of Missolon- | gh, in April, 1926, he returned to Yer | mont and lectured through New York l and the New England states for the | cause of the Greeks, At the solicitation of the Boston and New York Greek committees he went to Greece q second time as their general agent, and dis tributed several cargoes of provisions
 and clothing for the suffering Greeks, returning to Montpelier, Vt, in lS27. His statement about the sword Is as fol- lows. Lord Byron gave the sword to
 a young Greek officer named Loukas,
 captain in his legion who atterWard
 was shot dead in a sortle against the
 Turks from the Acropolis at Athens,
 and being found with this sword knot
 ted around his wrist was carried into
 the fortress When the sword and his
 clothing were sold for the benefit of his
 sisters by the British consul at Poros, Greece, I was present at the sale, pur- chased the sword, and brought it home
 .1 Af,Ir |
 loaned 1t to MT Castanis, native Greek lecturer, by whom it was carried
 back to Greece"
 Abijah Keith, who was the husband of Sarah Miller Keith, in 1885 wrote the following account of its recovery by himself upon one of his trips to Flu rope: Mrs. Keith and myself visited Greece in 1S53 and learning the where abouts of MT. Castanis at the Island of Syra, Greece, through our United States consul, Mir Evangelides recovered the sword. Afterward, while at Athens, MT. George Finlay, the eminent Scotch Philhellene, who knew Lord Byron well, and also Colonel Miller and Dr. s. G. Howe, called upon us, and during the conversation asked what had become of the Byron sword. We told him that we had it with us, having recently found the same at the Island of Syra; and on examination, he identified the sword and gave us the following certificate, which was printed in 1860 in Colonel Miller's biography in Thompson's His tory of Montpelier, Vt,,' the original certificate being lost in the great Chica- go fire, October, 1871: MT. and Mrs. Keith have just shown me the sword which Colonel Miller purchased at Po- ros. at the sale of the effects of Captain Loukas. This sword I have seen in Lard Byrons possession before he gave it to Loukas, and I was present at Po- ros when it was sold. George Finlay, Athens, January IT, 1S53'
 Mr. Keith then adds that MT. Finlay was a member of the Genealogical so- ciety of France, and also of the Ameri- can Antiquarian society of New York, and wrote several histories of the diff ferent periods of Greece, and resided at Athens until his death in 1875. Dr. Russ of New York and Dr. s. c. Howe of Boston were present at the sale. The sword has an Arabic inscription on the blade, which Is we'll worn, and By l ron's initial Oh the hilt.-Chicago Tri- | bune.