The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18

sorts. Was Married i'm Bavaria
When Sixteen Years Old and Was
Father Of Son a Year Later-Eorccd
TO F1e From Country. and Wife
Would Not Follow.
Especial to The Washington Posi-
New York, July 9.-Moritz Paul, an
old man, nearly bent double with years,
living with h.5 1C1 Charles, a butcher,
at 318 Central avenue, Broo[-1, says
he is the grandson OF John Paul Jones
the naval hero whose body is now be-
ing brought to the United States from
France.
Today when . reporter called ID get
the old mans story, he sent his son
Charles into the house to get a picture
OF himself when he was a young man
| fifty years ago. His son came back with
| a faded and time-yellowed picture TAX
en- fifty years ago.
"Hey?" said the Old man proudly.
What do you think of that now?'
The resemblance between the pic
lures of the long dead sea fighter and
| Moritz as g. man of thirty-ive was sin-l
gularly marked. Feature for feature,
line for line, the photograph and the
prints Of John Paul Jones were SINH
lar. The long straight nose Of john
Paul Jones was the long, straight nose
Of the old picture. Jones prominent
mouth with the twist at the corners,
was reproduced markedly in the picture
of Moritz Paul. The shape and pose
of the mead and egen the fashion Of the
hair were very much alike in both pic
lures.
The old man said: There's nothing
really strange about it. John Paul
never mind the Jones. that wasn't his
right name, as everybody knows-was
nv grandfather. I look more like him
than did my father, Peter Paul.
MARRIAGE IN BAVARIA.
st was about the year 1863 thai q
YOUNG man about sixteen years Old, d
little fellow, with a dashing way ahd
the devil of a temper and a thirst, TURF
ed up in the village OF Shienklrcne III
Bavaria. Nobody knew where he came
from. He was free and easy, and seem
ed 70 want to settle Town. He SAID HIS
name was John Paul. He wasn't Ill
. EngliShman.
"He hadn't been there long before he
u met a young girl, she VINO became ny
! grandmother, Ursula. He married Iel
in the village church, and they tooh d
= house and settled.
> ''There was a baron named o
that held most of The land about there
and he took to the strange young mai
hunted with him. drank with him, AND
i made him an intimate. 1t wasn't long
before John Paul set the villagers by
" I- h;c nc rN11CinO and swearing
= and running about. He was a devil OF
/ a fellow. my fathel said. But he was
clever. and a handy fellow with al
> sorts of things. He wrote letters tol
neighbors and tinkered with tools, anc
: knew a horse from hook to head.
"About a year after he married Z so-
was horn, my father. A little while al
ter hat there was a child that su1eree
from diseased eyes. John Paul per.
! formed an operation on the child, ant
if died before he got through. The VII
layers were ignorant and superstition:
and were terribly angry. one nlSnt
Il mob went after John Paul and ne ne'
d. To the Baron Ludovic's castle. In'
e. haron gave him Up On condition ina
tho villagers would not hurt him., AM
. he was put in prison. The baron go
III him ont soon, and advised him 10 8
ie tn rance He disappeared 1mmedlate
= ly. TIN
WIFE REFUSED TO JOIN HIM.
III ga few months afterward there cam
"a from Paris a letter to my grandmotne
written bv John Paul. He was going l
= America. he wrote and wanted hef Z
come to Paris ara go with him. Sh
was very angry al her husband 1or C
,.I sertiuc her. She wrote back reIuslii
- him. She heard not long atterWar
-, through the Baron Ludovic that Jon
- Paul had taken to the sea, and was cap
=, tain of a trading ship. That was IN
last she ever heard, and John ra'
= went out of her life completely.
The Pauls said that the letters VIII
~ on bv John Paul were kept until a III
desfroved the family home sevent
~ Years or more ago in Shoengirche.
-, owe are going to ask our consul mel
To find ont for us if the village recoT
- of marriages and births is preserveH
cold the son. "If they have been, "
will get copies and send them to Il
state department at Washington VII
:. orr story. All we would like is TT
as privilege of seeing the body and knoV
en- ing that we are really the descendant
re- of the great fighter" ~,
nd Verv little is knOwn OF JONI ia
ZONES before he reached the age
ar eighteen. He was born July 3, li4',
hv Kirkbean. Scotland. History skps sc
orl enteen years, and says: Before the d.
no of eighteen. he commanded a vessel III
ar traded with the West Indies