Arizona republican., 1905-09-30

| years, his condition was that of abject poverty. When his identity was finally i learned he was living in a little hut 1 in the river bottom below Phoenix, l having only the absolute necessities of | life He had himself but a few days 1 before come into partial possession of that which justly belonged to him and was naturally very reticent about ! talking, not knowing the effect it 1 might have on his own interests. The | newspapers secured all the facts they ] could and speculated concerning the missing links. Naturally there were
 some errors and misstatements. chief i among them being the application of | the title of lord, to MT. Neville. MT. 1 Neville spent the summer in Califor- l fornia whither his story had preceded i him, and returning a few days ago, is 1 now stopping at the Hotel Adams. l Being continually the exposure of the i eyes of the curious and being sought | for further information, MT. Neville 1 has consented to write his own story, l which is herewith presented. He eX- l plains that he is not a lord, but is
 very much interested in the barony of | Latimer Following is his letter:
 | Phoenix, Ariz. Sept. 29, 1905. i To the Editor of The Republican,:
 Sir-Permft me to point out a slight
 error in your issue of September PC. l You say that many people of the city | believe me to be the heir of the bar ! onetcy of Latimer. Now, sir. there is | no baronetcy of Latimer; there is a barony of Latimer in abeyance. My three first cousins and myself are CO., | heirs of this barony. Debrett says | and he is an authority on such mat 1 ters, if there are any cadets of the | house of Latimer they have the best | claims to the earldom of Westmore- | land under attainder upon the vast
 estates in former times attached to this l earldom. There stands Brancepeth l castle to the winds four square, the l stronghold of the Nevilles in war; the l lordly feudaI pile of Ruby. one of the | three handsomest castles in Europe, the abode of the Nevilles in peace, for | five centuries, but this earldom it would be well nigh impossible to re- gain. The story is this: To the bar ony of Latimer there are no eatates | attached. but a wealthy uncle of mine i who had a brother-in-law living in
 Herefordshire, was in the habit Of
 paying a visit once a year to Hereford l to afford his family, consisting of two young daughters. the pleasure of lis tening to the weeks musical festival ! | Gloucester and Hereford, and saw in | a church close by the cenotaphs of l three Lord Nevilles. They were un | doubtedly the Latimer Nevilles, as | Cecil, earl of Essex, ancestor of the | Marquis of Salisbury and present ! prime minister of England, had a cas- tie in Herefordshire and married one
 of the daughters of John Neville, Lord
 Latimer. Upon the death of his two young daughters my uncle left all of 1 his wealth divisible among my three
 first cousins and myself. co-heirs of | the barony of Latimer, all of US being materially descended from John Neville, Lord Latmer. The Associat- | ed Press correspondents have given me the title of lord by courtesy. I have not been ilI-mannered enough to l contradict so enlightened a class of
 men and the more I have reflected the more 1t seemed to mo to do so would be little less presumDtious than to contradict the handwriting of Pilate l on the cross. Wherever I have gone I have been pointed out as Lord Ne vile; all over Los Angeles, at Redon- do Beach, at the port of San Pedro, at the modern American creation of Venice; thus I have been lashed in the streets of Rome. 1 admire the chivalry
 
 them that Cuba owes her freedom
 from oppression and that on the score of the wrongs Of a private individual?
 But why point to my hut while the
 fortune left me by the uncle who used to visit Hereford was cached away by
 two other cruel uncles in the spirit of self f-cOmmendation and with view to
 establishing a protectorate over me
 and mine? I endured poverty and pri-
 vation uncOmplainingly and without a
 murmur but it was not more severe
 than many an uncrowned emperor
 has borne. including Abraham Lincoln.
 It would not be well to give the de-
 tails here, and they would be too hor-
 rible to give, of how my two uncles
 attempted to shyster me out of more
 than half the estate and they still
 manifest a continuity of purpose to
 shyster me out of the remaining DOT tion. Under the stimulation of pOver-
 ty, an old time trick Of my uncles',
 they are offering me terms which I
 cannot accept without I tarnish the honor of this great and strong nalon and without I infringe that principle : which the men who signed the declar- 1 atfcn of independence were ready to pledge their lives their fortunes and | their sacred honor to maintain. 9th | CT business may call me In TeW days | to Washington. I hope to ascertain | there whether the question may give | rise to international complications. ! Meanwhile I rest happy in the belief ! that the United States of America, | which, in the words of MT. Balfour | prime minister of England, is among the greatest, if not the greatest nation in the world, is able to hold its own against all corners. l will not yield.
 I have the honor to be. sir,
 Your most Obedient servant.