The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24

fall quickly at the command. "hre, ;"
and leave the rest to them. He did
as they said, and the ten balls passed
over him and lodged in the wall be-
hind him. The officers on their horses
galloped off as soon as Ney fell, and
the attendant physicians, who Nro-
nounced him dead, were his old
friends.
He was placed in a coffin and turned
over to his friends and soon shipped
from Bordeaux to America, while the
empty casket was buried in Pere III
Chaise. This you see was in Decem-
Der, 1915, and in 1916 we have shown,
that our Ney was first seen in South
Carolina-doubtless landed at Charles
ton, the great shipping point at that
time. Marshal Money refused 20 sit
in the council to try Ney for treason
and for which he suffered three
months imprisonment. He SAID:
Shall L consign to death the man to
whom SO many Frenchmen are in
debted for life There were but few
people present to witness the eXecu-
ton, being early in the morning and
all of them, his old guard whom he
had so often lead to victory. Ney told
Mrs. Dalton, one of his dearest and
most intimate friends, that it was a
preconcerted matter between him and
the officers of the squad, how. he
should escape death. Rev. r. w. Bar
Der, who is quietly living on his beau
tiful farm on the Yadkin, just a few
miles above me, knew Ney personally,
and affirms his belief that he was the
great Marshal of France. That his
brother, Col. VIM Barber, was at one
time his pupil, and while reading Gaze
sar, Ney's favOrite classic, ne would
often commend on Caesars errors
and compare his campaign with that
of Napoleon's, and unconsciOusly at
times speak of his own part in the
latter. Mr. Barber says that P. S.
Ney's signature and hand writing was
the fac simile, of the Marshall. Col.
Barber was killed in battle in the late
war near Petersburg, Va. Up 10
the time of his death he firmly be-
lieved that L. S. Ney was the Marshal.
Rev DR.. Rockwell says: In 1892
Ney was teaching near Mocksville.
Early one morning. before school had
opened, Mr. Giles Mumford took out
Ney's mail and gave it to him in the
house of Mr.. Berry Foster where he
was then boarding. In the mail were
papers telling of the death of Napo-
Icons son, the Duke of Richstadt.
When Ney read this he trembled,
turned pale and threw the paper on
lHe lIooI anu Saul, nave IdHlIly
in France, which now [ never eX-
pect to see" He did not teach that
day but returned to his room, burn
ed quantities of letters and some of
his books, placed one end of a trunk
in the fire and sat upon the other
end. Mrs. Foster smelled the smoke
burst open the door and found him
as described. He gave up the school
and sought other parts. DR.. Rock
rfl1 III 10 OF Tlnr 1f,1cr
ton, S. c., seated by a fire in the hotel
somewhat intoxicated; a stranger
came to the hotel and spoke of his
recent trip. abroad and that he had |
seen the grave of Ney, etc. p. S. Ney |
raised up at this expression and said !
aloud, but Ney was not there-his |
bones cannot be found in the soil of |
France" In 1S40, at the time of Har- /
sons election, Ney was at a voting |
dell county. An old man who had !
been a soldier in France saw Ney and /
called out. There is Marshal Ney." |
Il have not seen him before since
Hush, Hush" said Ney, and then he |
his quoting. "
An expert Frenchman. in New York |
examined the handwriting of Ney and |
it to that of the Marshal |
and said they were the same. Once |
Capt. Houston and Ney were together |
ON q creek on a smooth stretch of
sand. Ney with his cane marked out |
he plan of the battle of Waterloo, |
md showed him the position he occu-
pied in that dreadful conflict and the |
place he had five horses killed under I
him. Capt. II. Said that in 1880 |
when Louis Phillip mounted the
French throne, Ney attempted to cut |
his throat, but was finally quieted /
Down. One reason it is said-why he
avoided all public resorts and lived
n seclusion, was the fear of assassi-
lation for himself and friends in
France, who aided in his escape. He
had large sum of money to his cred
t in the old National u. S. Bank, but