The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-04
THINKS EVIDENCE
POINTS TO BACON
Or. George P. wilkinson, Former
keokuk Man. Writes interest
ing Communication Anent
the Discussion.
SOME BITS OF PROOF
q Paul Man Some Years Ago
Thought He Discovered Key to
Show That Bacon
Was Author.
SOME BITS OF PROOF

ne question OF VINO wrote Snakes
peare is being discussed freely at the
present time, especially since a Chi
cago jurist attempted to fix the re-
sponsibility. The Chicago decision
seems to find hacker in the person
OF a former Keokuk man, DR.. George
P. Wilkinson of Omaha Dr.. Wilkin-
son feels that all the evidence for
such decision is on the side of
Bacon. He gives some very interest
ing bits Of history of the plays, and
the tracing Of their origin, in COM
munication to an Omaha paper, which
is reprinted here:
The Chicago court the other day
that decided that Bacon wrote the
plays and sonnets of Shakespeare had
all the evidence on that side. Other
than William Shakespeare was a
wandering actor in London in the
time of Queen Elizabeth and there
sides those found by Prof Burnett
and his wife Of the University of Ne
braska lately to ordinary documents
on court records relating to property,
there is nothing to show that he
wrote the greatest of all literature
and much to the contrary. According
to Sir Edward Laurence, it seems
that in 1897 Shakespeare died In
1870 Shakespeare was given E1,000
and sent from London to Stratford on
the Avon, which was long, long way
in those days. This was done in order
to induce him to incur the risks en-
tailed by allowing his name to appear
upon the plays. For had Queen
Elizabeth known that Sir Francis
Bacon, afterward viscount ST. Adams,
had written them she would have cut
off his head, since she was determined
to punish the author of Richard
H." and she is reported to have said.
"Seest thou not that / am Richard
IT." There is no evidence that
Shakespeare ever earned as much as
ten shillings in any week while he
lived in London. OF the three like
nesses extant OF Shakespeare. known
as the Stratford bust, the D'avenant
bust and the wood cut in the first
edition OF the works in 1923, known
as the Droeshout print, not one Of
them can be called authentic. ut
seems almost impossible" says Laur-
ence, that people with eyes to see
should have looked on this so-calied
portrait for 800 years without perceiv-
ing that it consists of ridiculous
putty faced mask, fixed with stuffed
dummy, clothed in n trick coat If
one will notice, 1t will be seen that
the coat is impossible, because COM
posed of the front and back OF the
same left arm of the back part, Civ
ing harlequin appearance to the
figure. Bacon's scientific works are
under his own name and they are DE
Augmentis' and 'Novum Organum.'
The first is about better advanced
teaching and the second refers to the
new logic of science, that is, the in
ductive method as an addition to the
book of Aristotle called The Or
ganum,' which treats Of speculative,
or reductive, or old formal logic.
ION the title page of DE Augemen-
It's published in 1645 and on the
title page of the play Of King Henry
VII in the latin edition published in
Holland in 1912. the same wood cut
appears. In both we see that ridicu-
lous coat on one of the figures Of the
dummy Shakespeare. To the left Sir
Francis Bacon stands, himself. in the