New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-25
Bold Exploits Of Colonel Thomas
Blood In England.
TRIED TO STEAL THE CROWN
The Daring Scamp Almost Succeeded,
Too, and Managed to Escape Pun
ishment After Being Captured-His
Attack on the Duke of ormonde.

war he was active on the parliament
tary side was made a justice of the
peace by Henry Cromwell and received
large grants of land. These were con
fscated at the restoration, and Blood
forthwith began his career as a des- |!
perado
His first plot was to seize Dublin cas-
tie and the person of the Duke Of Or
monde, the lord lieutenant in 1868. A
crowd was to be collected at the castle
gates, a pretended baker with a load
of bread upon his shoulder was to
stumble and upset the loaves, and in
the scramble which would probably en-
sue among the castle guards the gates
were to be seized but the plot was be
trayed to Ormonde, and, although
Blood hin1elf escaped his brother-in-
law was arrested and executed
After a period Of seclusion among the
Irish hills and in Holland, Blood cross
ed to England and joined the fifty mon
archy men. After one or two minor
deeds of daring he planned and nearly
carried out a desperate stroke in 1910
In that year the Prince Of Orange visit
ed England and was entertained by the
city of London. In his train on the oc-
casion was the Duke of Ormonde,
against whom Blood nursed undying
hate. The duke was dragged from his
coach in ST. James street by Blood and
his son-in-law, strapped on horseback
to one of the conspirators and hurried
+ toward Tyburn. So determined was
the prime mover in the affair that his
enemy should die that he hurried on
toward the galloWs to arrange the rope.
The dukes coachman gave the alarm
and followed his master with assist
ance, and timely rescue was effected.
On May 9 in the following year Blood
made his great attempt to carry off the
Tower jewels. He set about the task in
quite a modern style. Some three
weeks before the attempt he and a wo-
man whom he represented as his wife
his real wife being then in the north
of England-visited the Tower, where
the lady feigned sudden illness. She
and her companion were invited into
the private apartments of Edwards
the aged keeper. that she might rest
and recover
Three or four days later they return
| ed with present of gloves as an ac-
acknowledgement Of the ciyility. Blood
was courtesy itself, admired every
thing, but especially Edwards pretty
daughter, and presently proposed a
match between the young lady and his
nephew" This was agreed to, and
the visitors at once dined with the fam
lily, Blood pronouncing an edifying
grace. After dinner they were shown
over the house. Blood managed to rid
| Edwards of case Of pistols by pur-
chasing them for friend, and it was
! arranged that the nephew" should be
brought for inspection by his future
bride at o'clock on the morning Of
/ May g.
Punctual to the day and hour, Blood
| appeared with three COMPREHENSIVE
! rot, Hunt and Holloway. Each had a
sword stick in his hand, a dagger in his
belt and pistols in his pockets. Hollo-
way remained outside to guard the
door.
Blood. with nice regard for the Ell
quette of the occasion, proposed that
/ they should await the arrival of his
wife before joining the ladies and that
Edwards should show them the crown
! jewels to while away the time The
i jewel room was entered and the door,
as usual, closed. Edwards was at once
attacked gagged and bound, an iron
hook being even attached to his nose
that no sound might pass from him
that way In spite of threats he
struggled calamity, was knocked down
1 stabbed and left for dead Parrot put
the globe in his loose breeches Blood
crushed up the crown and thrust it be,
meath his cloak. while Hunt began to
file the scepter in two before putting il
in bag.
At this moment, like a bolt from the
blue, appeared Edwards son, newly ar:
rived from Flanders and eager to greet
his family He went first to his moth
er and sister. and the thieves slipped
out, but Edwards, regaining conscious
ness, managed to give the alarm, and
they were taken. Said Blood philo
s sophically, 1T was bold attempt, but
it was for crown
After this one imagines there woul6
be short shrift for Colonel Blood, anC
"A we expect the march to Tyburn and al
X edifying last speech" But he refused
to plead unless in private to the king
and was admitted to an interview, go
on the right side of the merry mon
arch. limited at accomplices by the hun
dred who would ayenge his death, was
Il granted his forfeited estates and wa:
thenceforWard frequent in the pres
ence chamber. Then he quarreled will
his patron, Buckingham, and was cas-
In damages for SANDER on the duke
He died in 1850 and was buried in Tot
hill fields; but, "sham funeral ru
, NOR being started, he was exhumei
two days later and identified at an in
! quest Globe
AIR is estimated to surround til,