Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

neling enterprise that alone can nope 10
find the body-if it be there. One lead cor.
fin they found already. There was great
hope. The ambassador, accompanied by
his second secretary, Col. Bailly-Blanchard
met the commissary of the quarter
by appointment; and the commissary was
dressed in his red, white and blue SCARF OF
office tied around his stomach. The APP
pointment was TO open the lead coffin; ana
they had an American physician with them.
as an expert of dead bodies. But the am
bassador said sadly: An expert mas reaa a
few words on the brass plate of this coffin
1t is not that of Paul Jones, but OF a
pastor named Langlos who was buried
two years before Paul Jones died"
Col Bailly- Blanchard who has done the
embassys Investigations. told me why he
was convinced Paul Jones lies buried some
where In this area. .
Paul Jones died Protestant, we know,
he said; land we also know that the
burial of Protestants in Paris at that period
was matter of strict regulation. The I'D
erty of cultes had not yet been declared.
There is no evidence to show that any other
Protestant cemetery existed as posslDie
place of burial for Paul Jones. We know,
also, that the pastor, Marion, mentioned IN
the report to the national assembly, was
connected with this (Dutch) Protestant
cemetery; and that a police commissary,
likewise mentioned, had buried other
Professionals in it."
There is also the note of Charles Read
although NJ. Ricaudy declares the register
Protestant cemetery near the Porte St.
Martin 1t is NJ. Albert de Ricaudy, editor
of the Echo du Public.
Understand, the Investigations do not end
here. NJ Col. Bailly-Blanchard has been
over lot of ground; and so have others.
Five years ago, when the subject was first
opened, the American consul general start
ed an investigation to rival that OF the
ambassador That Is to say, he told M.
John Emmett to go investigating. M. En-
NETT, who is today teller of the American
Express company, is one of the best-knoWn
and best-liked Americans of the colony.
NJ. Emmett, actuated by an ardor which
he declares himself today surprised at, COM
menced with the old cemeteries, going over
all their registers. He found nothing. AT
the national library, in the newspaper files
of the epoch, he found all the speeches, ETC..
made beside the body of Paul Jones on
July 20, 1892, at pm, In presence OF the
deputation of the national assembly, the
American minister and members of the col
ony the deputation of the Protestants of
Paris, but not a word to say where he
was buried-or that he was buried. Then.
in the records of the French admiralty, En-
NETT came on disquieting note.
Another Hero Lost.
1t seems that something like twenty-five
years after Paul Jones' death the French
minister of marine inquired of his subor-
dnates the whereabouts of the body of Paul
Jones. Why? 1t is not known, but En-
NETT thinks there must have been some
movement or some question from America,
with view to transporting of the body.
In any case he found an admiralty note in
forming the then French minister of ma
rine that the American Admiral Paul Jones
was believed to have been buried in a ceme
terry now built over twenty-five years
after 1872 by the Hotel Dieu."
If Paul Jones was really buried in such an
obscure, built-ever place, his body is prob
ably lost to US forever, although in one con-
tingency Mr.. Emmett thinks the lead coffin
may be found, no matter in what cemetery
it was buried. In the year 1904 the major
ity of old French cemeteries in the then
populous part of Paris were vacated, and
the human remains found in them were
with the exception of those claimed by
families, deposited in the Chapel of Bones