The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-07-25
LONDON TOWER MAY
Be KAISER'S PRISON
Historic Bastile May Be
Home OF The Would
Be Conqueror

New York, July 19.-William Ho-
henzollern, who set out to overcome
the world is now facing the prospect
of Imprisonment in the Tower of Lon
don, that famous old prison and fort
ress, built in 1913 by William the
COnquerOr. France does not wish
for former Kaiser to be sent to Lon
don for imprisonment and trial be-
cause she fears he may be too kindly
treated there, since he is related to
King George But a glance over the
history of London Tower and its roll
of distinguished prisoners might dis
pei that doubt
The place of Punishment called
London Tower is really composed of
about twenty towers, but takes its
name from the large square tower in
the center of the group called White
Tower. This building is the nucleus
of the collection of structures and
was built by the Conqueror on the
site of an old Roman fortress.
At present the enclosure covers
thirteen acres. 1t is a prison. fort
ress and palace for the king, although
the rooms reserved for him are never
put to use Here in the Tower are
kept crown jewels, regalia and pieces
of armor of different periods. 1t was
used also as an arsenal during the
war
The building known as the White
Tower is said to have been designated
for the Kaiser, White Tower. the
erection of which was started by Will
liam of old, was finished twenty years
later by his son, William Rufus, who
began to build Traitors Gate and
st. Thomas Tower.
Recently opened to the public are
the secret dungeons of White Tower,
places of great historic interest. Their
gray walls hold gloomy secrets and
tales of horror. In this tower is the
cell where Sir Walter Raleigh lived
ten years. lie was released to go on
a South American expedition for the
king and being unsuccessful returned
only to be beheaded.
These dungeons know the tOrtures
of Guy Fawkes, convicted of trying to
blow up the Houses of Parliament. a
small cell connecting two dungeons
=, was his resting place between periods
, of torture on the rack. This room is
fittingly called Little Ease"
The former Kaiser may possibly
pass through Traitors Gate, where all
prisoners sentenced to the Tower for
!, execution or Imprisonment were
!, brought in the olden times. Here
passed lovely 17-year-old Lady Jane
Grey, beheaded because she had been
used as a tool to keep Mary Tudor off
the throne. And here passed Anna
Boleyn, beheaded because she could
not keep the favor of Henry VIII, her
husband.
Others who suffered ignoble deaths
in the Tower were Sir Thomas More,
Cnce friend of the King Catherir
Howard. Archbishop Cranmer and
many others whose names were once
noteworthy. Few ever entered the
Tower to come out except for eXecu-
8 ton on Tower Hill
Ii is near Traitors Gate that spies
are shot down at dawn. During the
recently ended war twelve spies were
put to death there.
Nearly opposite this gate is the
Bloody Tower, which was begun by
was the scene of that tragedy of death
4, of the two young princes, sons of Ed
/ ward ". smOthered to death by their
uncle. Richard. Earl of Gloucester
The princes were the children of his
> dead brother, and Richard desired
, their death in order TO gain the
= throne for himself
, other buildings i'm the group are
Byward Tower, the Middle Tower, ST.,
I Thomas Tower, Constable Tower,
|, Brick Tower, Beauchamp Tower, Pos
t, tern Gate Tower, the Martin Tower
and Bell Tower In the old days a
moat surrounded the Tower, but this
was drained away about seventy years
/ ago.
The Tower is interesting because
= for centuries dramatic events have
n been enacted there. Its history Of
: death and torture extended down to
: the middle of the Eighteenth Centu-
4 ny, when within ii the last of the
y Jacobite leaders was beheaded. Of
e ten members of a defeated political
n party were taken to the Tower TO be
j. beheaded by their successful rivals.
A superstition in the Tower is that