New Britain herald., 1919-07-26
TOWER OF LONDON
 AND ITS HISTORY
Possible Detention Place Of Kaiser
 Housed Many Characters

Washington, D. C., July 26.-The Tower of London, suggested as place where William Hohenzollern might be held pending his trial, is described in the following bulletin from the National Geographic so- Ciety:
 Palace and prison, once noted also for it's menagerie and it's pageantry, birthplace and death house of mon archs scene of hairbreadth escapes and reputed hidden treasure, ghastly in its memories of tortureS and kill lngs and sacred for it's martyrs, the Tower of London amply warrants de- scrptlon as the most ancient and most poetic pile in Europe
 William the Conquerer gave Lon don a charter but built the White Tower to show the people how little that charter might mean. Like the
 English constitution the rambling London Tower of today is a product of centuries, and not one, but many
 towers, now are scattered over some
 l3 acres. The site had been a fortress since Roman times.
 ITO the Middle Tower Elizabeth came back a queen five years after
 her jealous half-sister, Mary, had
 
 backed Richard III. hired three as
 sassins to murder his nephews in Bloody Tower. Not until years later were their bones found and taken to Westminster Abbey.
 Lady Jane Grey, she who had the
 birth of Princess, the life of a saint, and the death of a malefactor, was beheaded in London Tower. Henry VIII. waited to hear a gun fired from White Tower, signal of the execution of Anne Boleyn, so he might marry Jane Seymour next day. Henry'S min ister, Thomas Cromell, sent hosts of
 enemies to London Tower to be butch cred until he helped pick Anne of Gloves for his much married monarch but when Henry saw this prospective bride he pronounced her "a Flanders mare and off went Cromwell's head with the rest.
 Relieving such stories of royal cruelty are the immortal last words of the brave mon and women who laid their heads on the axeman's block.
 God forbid the king shall use any
 more such mercy to my friends laughed Sir Thomas More when told that Henry VIII. had 'mercifully con- scented to let him be beheaded in stead of hanged, and, to the eXecu- tioner, as he moved his beard aside, Pity that should be cut that has not committed treason.
 "The countess of Salisbury proud l ly refused to lay her head on the block because she had committed no wrong, so that, says an observer, apologizing for the eXecutioner, he was constrained to fetch it off sloven- ly.'
 If you strike me twice, I cannot promise you not to stir warned Mon mouth. Asked to raise his head bit AIgernon Sidney retorted, Not until the general resurrection; strike on.' Peter,' inquired Sir Walter Raleigh, to keep up the spirits of his at tendant, Doust thou know of any l plaister to set a mans head on again when 1t was cut of? 4- "Consigned to the Tower for some
 13 years Sir Walter set a fashion ] which made a salon out of the pal ace prison. While he was not at tending his garden, and distilling es- 1 sence from plants, he wrote his quaint
 History of the World and there, too, William Penn wrote No Cross, No Crown not to mention the writings of the Duke of Orleans and Sir John Eliot.
 About the main entrance to the Tower was a menagerie until hun dred years or so ago because Fred criCk IT. of Germany sent Henry III. of England several partners and Henry did not know what else to do with them. Later James l., who liked bear batting, added those animals to l the zOo
 '"The warders, known as beer eat 1 CTS, probably because they once 1 were fed on rations of meat, form 1 one of the curiosities for London visitors. They wear Tudor costumes 1 and, like the Swiss bodyguard of the
 Pope, they keep their ancient cos l tunes, undisturbed by currents of modern fashion.
 Just before midnight the head warden and the porter, carrying l bunch of huge keys, go to the guard room, summon the escort of the 1 keys made up of beef eaters and l then proceed tremendously to lock l the greater outer gate The pass word is given formally to sentries as