Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-24
'ARRANT FRAUD
OR ROYAL primo
"Perkin Warbeck," Called !
Duke of York of the Tows, y
Tragedy, Admitted and
Denied His Identity
By JOHN ELFRETH w,r,,.

NEARLY every one is fani,,o.
IN pictures of the two primo. ",'n y
Tower of London-those two son. u q
ward ~ who were alleged to ~ u q
murdered by order of their , e Osa
Duke of Gloucester, who cons,,,n. y
self King Richard III. pun.
Indeed, for cold.blooded crr.
ard III ranks in history with NJ N'e
quemada and Ivan the Terrlh,. iof
destiny avenged herself upon ~. ha
Henry Earl of Richmond, upturn.s s1''
throne and constituted himso,, o'
Henry VII. It was shortly aftor a., mug
the time of Columbus's discovar,, :, SN a.
lea, that there appeared in Cork -. au'f
a mysterious parsonage who so s,,ss' ''a
resembled the late King Edwara 1vnsg ~,
ther of the princes in the tower ,t..a =
was Immediately hailed as ,h,,
arch's brother, the Duke of Clarou.. "e
posed to have been murdered sor,s ~
before. But this man of mvst.r,. w
oath before the Mayor Of Cork 49,,
was not the Duke, whereupon N.
ulace, still insisting that he was =, Nv
blood, hailed him as nature, wa
Richard III. But this allegation 49,,
promptly denied by the newconsr :,
averred that he was the son Of tho ~
of York, the younger of the two ,.,.
in the tower aforementioned :,
being estimated by men who knew ,S..
dates that the little Duke OF Yor,, o.r,,
not have left q son of that ago i,
decided that the stranger was tho nas'
Of York himself, which theory after -
hesitation he corroborated Thus bo :.
knowledged himself to be Richard pl,D,.
genet, Duke of York and, by right NJ e..
cession, King Richard " Of Enrond
The people of ireland flocked 10 N.
standard. Many great nobles coming frr,
England, subjected him to rigid cro.
questionings and went back 10 Iora,,
convinced of the truth of his alleva,,or,
News Of the Identification reached :,
ears Of Charles VIII of France NJ,
being a bitter enemy OF Henry W, 4,
England, invited the young pretepde, /,
Paris, where he was received with rov,
honors. Shortly afterward Henry vu
besieged Boulogne and go. the French
King in such n tight Pa ,e that he had
to agree to a treaty banlshing the Al
legged Richard w. sn that young ma,
next went to Scotland, where King Jams,
~ fell on his mack and had him dpls
married to his relative, Catharine Gcn
don, daughter of the Earl Of Huntly. win
was to survive him and later marry thrss
other husbands. But Henry Of England
forced the pretender out Of Scotland and
he turned against that monarch lnyad
ing England at the head Of an arms
of Scotch soldiers. >Repulsed, he nert
entered Cornwall and, leading 1000 Cor.
nishmen, marched upon London, suffer
ing another defeat. He escaped toa
monastery, but being promised par
don If he would surrender, delivered him
self into the hands of Henry VII, Rhs
Ctis said by torture) eXacted from hin
an alleged confession that he was not he
Duke of York, but one Perkin War
beck, son of the Controller OF Tournay,
in Picardy, and that after an adventur
Gus career in Antwerp, Portugal and
other countries he had entered the serF
ice of one Peter Vacz de Cogna, one
eyed knight who had shown him The
world, This alleged confession was d
course, circulated widely by the Kingi
partisans.
The Duke Of York's aunt. the DOwags
Duchess of Burgundy, Edward Tvs SIS
ter, hearing the story of this man q
mystery with distrust sent for him, ana
after subjecting him to a rigid cross
questioning, threw herself into his arms
and accepted him as her beloved nepheH
Richard"
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