The New York herald., 1922-07-20
DESCENDANT OF king
seen in OLD DRIFTER
Neighbors Believe Belongings
of Late Edward Euston Show
Noble Lineage.
WORKED AS WATCHMAN
Papers Tell Of Ancient Eng
lish House of Fitzroy and of
Earl of EustOn.

A week ago a couple Of patrolmen
went to Mrs. Matte Morris's lodging
house. 10 Hicks street, Brooklyn, and
broke down the door of old man Eus-
tons room. Old man Euston had died
and he had taken the pains to lock his
door just to be sure that in his last
helpless moments Mrs. Morris or some
other conventional soul should not
ignore his wishes and call doctor.
week before the policemen came
to break down the door old man Eus-
ton took to his bed. He had come
home from his, job as night watchman
on the Atlantic and Pacific Steamship
DOCKS saying that his lungs hurt him.
He would go to bed, he told the solicit
tous Mrs. Morris. He'd be all right In
a day or so. No, he'd have no doctor.
Moreover. he wanted no kind .but
bothersome neighbors running In with
their eternal pessimisms and their long
recountings Of doleful tales Of family
illnesses. He'd be all right in a day
or so.
Old man Euston-Mrs. Morris was one
of the few who knew that he acknowl-
edged the name of Edward Euston-died
of pleurisy or something akin to 1t. And
he had his way about it right to the end.
He died alone, with the door locked and
a. curtain drawn at tho window. Mrs.
Norris discovered that he was dead
when her bangings at the door produced
no groans and half cholred curses from
the old man. Dead or not, she was go
ing to have that door opened and that
man out Of there.
The patrolmen called a doctor, who
had the body shipped to the Morgue.
customs body away in some cheap lot.
too. had not Detective Frank Upton gone
to the room 10 carry out. the most per-
functory of orders to look through the
old boys effects and try to get a line
on who he was"
Last night old man customs body lay
stark and unromantic upon stone in
Of the New York Police Departments
Bureau of Missing Persons were being
exerted to find out why, In the rubbish
that old man Euston called his personal
belongings, there should be photographs
and records of the noble British family
of Fitzroy
Beneath the carpet Upton found a
large photograph. 1t had been taken
fifty years ago or thereabouts by a
London photographer. The subject was
a youngish man of somewhat weak, but
not at all unpleasant, features. OF
course It is entirely natural. that with
all this mystery about old man Euston
folks look at the photograph and say
IL Is nothing in the world but old man
Euston himself as. lad of "a or so.
And, inevitably. too. they say that they
can see real distinction In that face
the distinction that must be nobilitys.
On the back of the photograph was
pasted an account from London news
paper of the erratic life OF Henry James
Fitzroy, Earl of Euston. son of Augustus
Charles Lennox Fitzroy. Duke of Graf
ton. The account at some length re-
counted the remarkable marriage of
Henry James Fitzroy to a lady of un-
certain dignity--Kate Walsh of London
of his flight out to Australia. of his
return to England. thinking himself
freed of Kate Walsh. of his death in
1912.
Fitxroy History Barred.
In the bureau the detective found
other newspaper clippings dealing with
the pomp and circumstance as well as
the private shames and shortcomings Of
the Fitzroys and their titles. Further
along they found Masonic apron that
bore the imprint Of the famous house
and private marks of the seventh Duke
of Grafton. father of the present head
of the house. And that's about all ex-
CO ut a note from a captain In the Saliva
ton Army saying that 1t would be all
right for old man Euston to go down
somewhere or other on Gates avenue
and do a humble job OF mental work
for a dollar a day and God bless him.
No that's not quite all. There was
life insurance policy issued by the
Prudential company on July Is. 1897.
40 Edward Euston, who then lived at
722 Third avenue Brooklyn. The pol
lev has II that Edward Euston was a
cook and that he was born In New York
AnriI 20. 1860. Henry James Fitzroy,
Earl of Euston, about whom the news
paper clippings on the back OF the pho
tograph read, was born November :S.
1S4S.
Leaves Much for Speculation.
Old man Euston must have paid his
10 cents every week because the COM
pany Is. awaiting the arrival OF some
one to whom TO deliver the $3.50 or 90
the paper is worth. On note attached
TO the policy the old boy had scrawled
just line Ito nobody in particularly to
the effect that he wanted a Christian
burial"
SO there on the slab IN the morgue
along with the other untnowns, lies the
body OF old man Euston. You can't
help wondering whether he died with a
grin or a sneer In his heart knowing
they'd uncover those clippings, that
photograph and that Masonic apron
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