The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-10-01
Claimant to Throne Of Russia
Reported to Be Gathering
Support in Siberia.
ersssnt Soviet Government Has OF.
fered 100000 Rublss for Alleged
Pretsnder's head-prstsnder
Of oygone oaya

New York.-A recent dispatch from
london brings the information that
nan purporting to be Car Nicholas ii
Of Russia Is rnising large following
10 Siberia. According to his allega-
lions. he asserts that IL was one Of his
faithful servants who was killed In
his place by the bolsheviki nj Ekat-
erinburg over two years ago. The pres
ent soviet government has offered a
eward Of 2.000.O0O rubles for this al
legged pretender's head.
II this man Il an Impostor another
name can be added to the long list OF
pretenders to the crowns Of Europe.
In bygone days some were successful
in establishing their claims, while 9TH
ers paid the penalty for their false
allegations on the guillotine. One Of
the successful claimants to a throne
Of Europe proved to be wise and
able ruler.
About 1893 a mysterious stranger
appeared In Cork, Ireland. where the
people greeted him as the brother Of
Edward Nv of England. hut he denied
this. They then claimed that he was
the son Of Richard III, and he denied
this too. But ut length he admitted
that he was the duke Of York, one of
the two princes whom It was believed
Richard III had murdered in the tower
Of London.
Members Of the nobility came from
England, and after questioning the
stranger they were convinced that he
was the duke Of York. He then called
himself Richard Plantagenet. duke Of
.Ork, son Of Edward Nv, and by right
If succession Richard Nv Of England.
Henry VII was then ruler Of Eng
land. and he did all in his power to
'hwart the designs of the new claim
INT to the throne. He succeeded In
irving him out of France by forcing
Charles VIII to hanish him, and he
defeated him when he invaded Eng
and from Scotland. Richard Nv then
sought refuge in Cornwall and later
marched on London at the head Of
1000 Cornishmen who rallied to his
banner, but he was defeated and taken
prisoner.
Admitted He Was Adventursr.
II was said that Henry VII obtained
I confession from him by torture. He
admitted that he was one Perkin War.
beck. an adventurer from Picardy.
After several weeks In the public
stocks this pretender was executed.
James II became unpopular by IA
voring the church Of Rome, so William
and Mary were invited to accept the
throne Of England, since Mary was the
eldest child Of Charles II. But a year
before they assumed their regal duties
It was announced that James cvnsort
was about to present him with an heir.
However, rumor spread that James
was about to pass Off on the unsus.
pecting public as his heir child that
was not his own. The birth Of Prince
James Francis Edward Stuart, Who
was known in later years as the Chey.
'lier st. George, was witnessed nv
persons not really believed by the
people. The following year James II
was forced to flee to France.
Many years later the two daughters
Of Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, who was
a faithful follower Of James II, were
overheard by Frances Shaftoe, a seam.
stress, to remark that James Stuart
the Chevalier st. George, was their
brother. One night the queens in.
FAINT died Of commissions at Windsor
and Lady Oglethorpe brought her son
nine days older, to the castle and he
was substituted for the prince.
Oglethorpe's daughters had Frances