New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-13

A curious reason has been put forward BY TIE
authorities II Westminster Abbey for denying to
the body Of the late Sir Henry NJ Stanley that
entomhuent in Westminster Abbey for which he
had craved. wishing 10 he buried near Or Living
stone whose name and fame were TO such degree
identified with his own. II seems that the real
reason was that one knew exactly what the
true name OF Stanley was and the famous explorer
never took any trouble clear up the mystery or
20 vouchsafe any explanation, not even when
Thomas George boyhood companion and play
mate OF Stanley published his book I'm 1895, through
the Roxburghe Press. entitled The Birth, Boy
hood and Younger Days Of Henry NJ. Stanley.
wherein there was clear statement, supported
by a wealth Of detail and anecdote showing that
Stanley was not, as generally believed founding
OF the name of John Rowlands. brought up in the
workhouse OF ST. Asaph in Wales. and the adopted
son of a merchant at New Orleans. who had been
his benefactor and who had given him his name,
but was in reality Howell Jones son OF Joshua
Jones' a Carmarthenshire bOokbinder. and that he
ran away sea. writing To his parents from
France, from Peru and from America. He re-
turned home during the Civil War in this country.
spent a fortnight with his parents. I'm which time
he saw the author OF the book. Thomas George.
and then returned 10 America
The name OF Henry Morton Stanley he took. not.
as alleged from a New Orleans merchant but from
an aunt for whom he had a particular affection.
and who had been especially kind to him. II
be added that no amount OF investigation nor even
reward offered by curious persons ever
information as to the New-OTleanS
merchant from whom the explorer said 10
have taken the name OF Stanley; directories g-
nored his existence, and no New-Oreans resident
had ever heard OF him.
Old Joshua Jones' the bookbinder still alive
when Stanley returned from finding Livingstone in
Africa but was infrm to travel 10 London.
Moreover. there some arrangement between
father and son. But the former had no difficulty
IN recognizing his boy in the pictures OF Stanley.
1t may be stated further that Thomas George, in
his book proves by documents which are incontro-
vertible that the son the boOkbindeT. under the
name of H. NJ Stanley, enlisted an liable sea-
man. in the Confederate Navy at the time of the
Civil War which implied previous seafaring ex-
perience and the fact that he was a grown man,
instead OF being a mere boy, and that this came
Henry Morton Stanley taken prisoner and con
fined at Pittsburg from where he made his escape
and after his brief visit home described above. re-
turned to America and enlisted In the federal army
Now unless there were two Henry Morton Stan
levs who enlisted on the same day at New-Orleans.
we're taken prfsoner together. again escaped to-
gether from Pittsburg and subsequently reenlisted
on the same day in the federal army at New
York 4, "a evident that the bookbinders son. Howell
Jones and the famous explorer who died as Sir
Henry Morton Stanley were one and tho same
person.
What reason Stanley had for maintaining the
mystery as 10 his origin, to his estrangement
with his father and 10 his early career 1t is
taking even his best friends into his confidence