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20 Emt 0f 6%®df of tbt Q§ht§." \ Mrs. Hiller in Death Achieves Her Life's Ambition. \ Mi-.-. Frances Breeziaee Hiller, "The Lady of the Caskets," who was buried at Wilmington, .\!as~., on Wednesday, May 23, in <me of the famous carved mahogany coffins she had had constructed at great cost during her lifetime, was unquestion ably the ii. .-: eccentric woman of mod ern times: Ami shf had the means to gratify her eccentricities to an unusual extent. She died on Friday of the previous week of tumor, and five days intervened before burial, in order to prepare the famous I she had had carved for ).■ years ago, ami the mausoleum in which »-!ic now rests beside her second husband, 1 >r. Henry Hiller, whose remains lie In skel .:i!ii sarcophagus of similar de- Ki;;n and workmanship. MAIM-: MONEY OUT OF MEDICINE. Dr. and Mrs. Hiller amassed their money oul of ;!:>_• profits <>t the sale of vigor-restoring pills, which they adver tised extensively, and also in conducting a medical institute in this city, says the Boston correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Tiny purchased a line estate In Wilmington, twenty miles from Boston, some twenty years ago, and lived there in some style, but their expenditures In preparation for death were greater than the amount they expended in living. It was Mrs. Hiller's idea to be buried in a style surpassing the Egyptians and x /XAWCUB.H/lUH ■ Romans, and the doctor gratified hei wish tJuiing his life. Thus it camo about ihat she had two monster caskets made, and engaged a famous wood carver by the name of MacGregor to carve them In ;; gorgeous manner. These were finish ed twelve years ago, and not long 1 after the it completion J>r. Jliller died and was buried in one of them. The other casket and the two outer boxes, or sarcophagi, been k< pt meantime In a lOxlO-foot building known as the casket house, in the r< ar of the homestead. Wh< ;i the work on the caskets began Mrs. Hitler had unique notions as to what sort of coffins they were to be. She had read of the ancients and their ela borate preparations for death. The carv ings which tradition pictures more or less vaguely were followed generally, but Mis. Hiller made suggestions frequently, and es the work progressed the cutting of the wood grew more modern, not to say bizarre, In treatment. MacGregor is now dead, and, In fact, he did not live to Bee either of the caskets filled by its oc cupant. Dr. Hiller, at the outset, was not In per fect sympathy with his wife in going to euch expense for the caskets, and a tomb which his wife had projected. He feared th-e notoriety they would bring. Mrs. Hil ler is said to have set her mind on the elaborate funeral trappings, and she had Jier way. Thus it was that seventeen yeera ago MacGregor was engaged at $35 a week. CONSTRUCTION OF THE CASKET. A Quantity of red wood was purchased tout this stock was discarded and Flori da cedar was tried, but this, also, was unsatisfactory. Then they got some San Domingo mahogany, with planks thir ty-three inches wide. Two caskets were made, with tops eight Inches in thick ness, and there were two outside boxe^, the whole taking 1,900 feet of wood. The caskeis were copper lined. They had popper trays filled with camphor and con taining red silk mattresses. When the caskets with their outer coverings were made by a Boston under taker's supply firm they were sent out to the Wilmington house, where Mrs. Hiller set the carver to work on them. The carving occupied five years, and the wiskets when completed represented an Atlay of $10,000 apiece, and the sarco phagi $7,500 each, or $35,000 for the four boxes. Six months were spent In photo graphing the caskets as they lay in the rihow room of the big Boston undertaking firm, pctures being taken from every conceivable point of view and then en larged. In the very elaborate carving on each casket was placed a medallion of solid gold. At the house of Mrs. Hiller lierself did much of the polishing work on the caskets and their coverings, and seemed to take great pleasure in the oc cupation. A Boston brass founder was furnished designs of ornamental finish, and these patterns and subsequent cast ings, with their fine finish, cost consid erable money. When all was done the caskets were exhibited for a week in Boston. The tomb Mrs. HlHer haa built short ly after the death of the doctor repre sented an expenditure of several thous and dollars, but it was her Intention to erect a mausoleum costing $500,C00. Through a lack of ready funds, however, the building of the great final structure was never attempted. That such was her intention is borne out by the fact that the door of the tomb in the Wilm ington Protestant cemetery was too nar row to admit the caskets, this week, and the wall had to be taken down, end the legs on which tin© outer ca=es were designed to stand could not be used STATE OF OHIO, CITY OP TOLEDO Lucas County—ss. ' FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F J CHENEY & CO.,"doing: business in the City of Toledo, County and State afore said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH that can not be cured by the use of HALL'S CA TARRH CURE. A FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, /« n *~ "vV V tGLEASON. (Seal) Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure ia taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mul ÜBt'tafflSfftS th 6 SyStem- SCnd «" BoldV^S^e. 00'™^0- Hail'a Family Pin B are the best because the tomb was not high enough to accommodate them. DR. HILLER'S FUNERAL. Dr. Jliller died and was placed in his gorgeous casket on November 11, 1888. The funeral was a notable event, but as the proposed mausoleum had not been begun, the body was placed in the tomb. The tirst of this week the casket was heavy sarcophagus into the tomb, and the casket was lowered into it. It was taken out ami fifteen men rolled the ,t difficult task, in view of the great weight of the big mahogany boxes and the narrow space in which to work. In speaking of the caskets at the time win n they attracted so much attention Mis. Miller said: "Some years ago, seeing we were not lik( ly to have offspring to perpetuate our name and fortune, I spoke to my husband about being buried in costly caskets and preserved und< r a lasting- mausoleum. He lold me to go ahead and carry out any iiii a I might liav<-; life was more to him than death, and I was more to him than life. "At last, after many failures, I sent to the far South, and after infinite pains procured mahogany planks enough to build sarcophagi and caskets. Accus tomed to having my own way from childhood, I caused the burial boxes to be built on no plan of architecture save such as suited my fancy. "We always lived very frugally. For several years it was the ambition of our lives to get $1,000,000. When we had thai all saved, $2,00u,000 loomed up temptingly ahead. And •when wo had $3,000,000 and $4,000,000, $5,000,000 led us on. If there be such a thing as luck, then luck favored us. Everything we touched turned to gold in our hands. "We were as happy as could be, say for one thing-. Ch'ldien were born to us but iliey did not live. Though we bot ; w< re vigorous our little ones pined awa i and died in early life, so of the twentj three darlingrs I have borne, fourteen t whom were twins, not one is alive loda to give joy to my heart and sunshine t my home. It was God's will; let Hi will be done." In connection with the statement it 1 j interesting lo know that to a large ex | tent what she said was a myth. If they I ever possessed millions nobody knew it, j and while the property is today valued a» ! about $100,000, Mrs. Hiller made a sworn statement a few months berore her death that outside of the Wilmington house she did not possess ?10,00G worth of tax able property. MRS. HILLER'S EARLY HISTORY. Mrs. Hiller's statement that she had borne twenty-three children has since been refuted by relatives, and Mrs Laura Molnlosh, a niece, avers that Mr=! Hiller was the mother of three children by her first husband, one of whom, a daughter, is now living near Gloucester, England, where, she says, Mrs. Hiller was born sixty-two years ago. For some reason or other Mrs. Hiller many times gave her birthplace as South America, «md some of her friends have claimed she was born in British Guiana. She was born Elizabeth Ayers. and she Is said to have changed her name to Frances be cause it suited her better than Elizabeth. Where she got the peculiar middle name of Breeziaee is not known. When comparatively a girl she was married to Capt. Thomas Plant, master of a ship plying between Liverpool and Demerara. The couple "lived in Liver pool for a time, and after the death of Capt. Plant she came to Canada, where, in Toronto, she met Henry Hil ler, a Gorman. They were married and came to Massachusetts, where they took up a residence in Maiden, later going to Melrose, Boston and Wilmington. Dr. Hiller purchased the Wilmington estate about twenty years ago. The property improved and has been main tained in excellent condition. The house is ornate in architecture, with spa cious piazzas, and in the gables are plas ter designs, with cherubs in relief. Over the front porch is a representation of the family coait of arms, and the door stones bear the name "Hiller," chiseled deeply. In the rear of the house is a peculiar looking building, with four tow ers or spires projecting from the cor rers of the g-oof. This structure was in tended for a laboratory, but it was never completed within. Mrs. Hiller called it "The Towers," and by that name the natives have long known it. The deco rations of the buildings illustrate some of Mrs. Miller's whim's* Four year's after Dr. Hiller'a death a rumor of Mirs. Hiller's approaching third marriage set the town of Wilmington crazy with excitement. It brought out protests from her two nieces, Laura and Jessie Mathison, who had lived In her home in the capacity of servants. One of them claimed to have a prior lien on the affections of the coachman, Peter Suirrette, who was announced as the groom-elect. The marriage took place— in fact two marriages. The couple were* to have been mSrried in the Catholic church, and the church had been fres coed at the expense of the bride for the occasion. But Just before the day set for the ceremony the church authorities found out that the couple had already been married by a Protestant clergyman in a lawyer's office in Boston, and for bade the pastor to marry them. Mrs. Hiller personally called on Archbishop Williams and assured him tihat she thought that the minister who married them was a Justice of tha peace. Mat tel's were arranged, and on April 2, 1593, they were married in the little church that stood not far from the temb of the second husband. The ceremony was per formed by Rev. J. J. Ryan, the Earns who read the burial Bervico over Mrs. Hiller's body this week. A special choir rendered the music at the wedding, and there were over 800 invited guests, who went from Boston on a special train. The bridal carriage was a landau drawn by blx white horses. The ushers were physicians from Boaton, and wore white THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1900. ribbon badges fastened with $5 gold pieces. Mrs. Hiller is quoted as saying of Sur ette at the time of the marriage: QUEER MARRIAGE PROPOSAL.. "He came from Canada- and went to work for me, and was a faithful servant. He was gentle in his manners and quite nice. Things ran along quietly until the servants in the house got into a row. Peter remained loyal, and one day he ac costed me and asked me if It would be too presumptious on his part to know if I was going to get married. He had heard of rumors, and I said 'No.' " 'I am a poor servant, without money or friends, but I am a faithful, devoted admirer of your womanly qualities, and, as humble as I am, please consider a proposal from me,' he said to me. "I was thunderstruck at first, but the subject attracted my attention, and I said: 'Why not? He Is honest, loyal, obedient and loving.' I remembered how some of the greatest men of our times came from the meek and lowly, and be gan to make inquiries. Accordingly I asked him if he was willing to sign the ante-nuptial settlement, and he wanted to know what that meant. I told him, and again he expostulated that it was not my money he was after, but he loved-as only man can love." One of the conditions of the marriage was that the former coachman should abandon his Canadian name and adopt that of Henry Hiller 11. She also made a stipulation by which he waived all rights to her estate. Henry Hiller 11. proved a model hus band, but there were frequent quarrels in the family homestead; in fact, on the return from "the wedding tour one of the nieces pulled down the back hair of her aunt in a fistic encounter, and was un ceremoniously thrown out of the house. Then the other niece was given the walk, and Peter Suiette-Hiller 11. came into en tire management of the place. With the announcement o fthe death of Mrs. Hiller the:e was a rush of peo ple to the house claiming relationship and promises of bequests, for it was a habit of "the Lady of the Caskets" to tell ev erybody that she would remember them in her will. Three lays after her death a will was filed, but it since turns out to have been an old one. It bore date of July 1, 1898, and left the major part of the estate to Yale university and the Hospital Cottages for Children at Bald winsville, Mass. Memorial beds, costing $5 000 each were provided for in two Bos ton hospitals, and Henry Hiller 11. was named for a life annuity. The nieces were forgotten. It transpires that there was a later will, in fact, several. The last will is now in the ix>ssession of the third husband, and he will probate It upon the arrival of rel atives of Mrs. Hiller from England, one of whom is appointed administratrix un der it Mrs. Hiller was a woman who de lighted in the making of wills. Indeed this seems to have been one of her pet di versions for some years. She had been known to call in her friends and ask them what they preferred out of her numerous and costly jewels, which she spread out before them. She has miide and destroyed many wills, according to the testimony of those who should know. Her last will, which the surviving husband says he found hidden in a gigantic ornamental elephant, bearing a clock in its side, which stood on a bathroom sheal, giving him the real estiae, valued at $20,000, and a half interest in her jewels, money and the residue, the whole estimated at between $75 000 and $100,000. The nieces are cut off with $25 apiece, and a few former servants and acquaintances are remembered with from $l! sto $250. The remainder goes to her English relatives. The provision for the nieces was rr.ade by Mrs. Hiller to thwart their threatened contest of the will in the event that she left her proper ty to her coachman husband. MRS. KILLER'S BODY LAY IN STATE. For twenty-four hours previous to the funeral of Mrs. Hiller her body lay in stale in the parlor of the Wilmington house. It was robed in the famous $5,000 lace and satin gown that she caused io be made years ago, and which was ex hibited with the caskets in Boston. Yards of lace were fashioned into the folds, and blue daisies clung to the fabric: everywhere. A wreath of these dai sies rested lightly over the temple. The robe was fastened with 500 hooks and eyes of silver, especially designed. Under the breast was pinned a Woman's Relief corps badge. The body inclined on a brass spring and frame within the brass-lined casket, and the four lions' heads held the mattress ar rangement in position. The head was supported by a velvet pillow, and the highly polished metall interior of the case reflected the figure like a mirror. The casket was placed on the floor, and at the head of it stood a novel floral piece representing a clock dial with the hands at 6:15, the hour at which Mrs. Hiller passed away. Beneath the clock and its pendulum was a tablet inscribed: "The Sad Hour." The design, of South ern ivy, roses and lilies of the valley, with a pillow below marked, "My Wife," was the gift of the husband. The two tokens of affection stood seven feet from the floor to the two white doves that perch ed above the dial. Upon the fingers of the body were several gold rings, and one gold band encircled the left thumb. In one corner of the room stood the lid of the burial case, rich In mahogany and brass. The carver's treatment of the lid was in roses and ribbon. A brass de sign showed one person passing a cup to another. The plate was inscribed "Frances B. Hiller," and on the left of the name was the following verse: My day is done; for me has set the sun. Alas! My loved, how long the night That I must rest away from thee alone. On the right of the name appeared: My life on earth is past; How dread the cup that I now must taste; But death, thou art my friend; Yes, my best friend at last. Another plate, representing an open book, was inscribed: I know there is another land Where we shall never part; And I shall lie upon his breast, Close to his faithful heart, And find sweet rest, Oh! Balm for soul oppressed, Who longed for rest; Yes, balm for souls oppressed. These lines were followed by an auto graph signature of Mr 3. Hiller, engraved on the plate. The name plate on the sarcophagus read: "Frances B. Hiller, wife of Dr. Henry Hiller, born Feb. 14, 1845; Died May 18, 1900. Oh! Wasted Life, 1 Leave thee Be hind." The date of her birth thus given disa grees with the claim of all her relatives, who assert that instead of being fifty five years, as she had claimed, she was sixty-two years old. All day Tuesday there was a constant stream of people passing through the room gazing at the woman and her fa mous casket. Every electric car from neighboring towns was crowded, and all trains from both directions did an un usually large business. It seemed as i* the entire county turned out to 6ee the display. One well-dressed woman was detected stealing a daisy from the head of the dead, and was ejected, but this was the only attempt of curio hunters to obtain relics. IMMENSE THRONG AT THE BURIAL. The same scenes were repeated on Wednesday when the burial took place, but there was a still larger throng, and more than 2,000 Journeyed there on bi cycles. They pushed and struggled in their frantic endeavor to avoid, if possible, tho fate of being shut out at last without a sight of the dead woman. They laughed and told stories, and good stories, too, most of them founded on the eccentrici ties and love affairs of Mrs. Hiller. The nieces, who, it had been said, would be ejected, boldly walked into the house with their escorts, one of whom was the rugged blacksmith husband of Lau ra, and they later Journeyed to the church and cemetery in a carriage at their own expense, behind the other mourners. Ten pall bearers lifted the 700-pound Inner casket through the window and over the porch, whence they placed it on a specially constructed funeral car which cost $1,200. Thl3 car was about fourteen feet in length and six in -width, and. the great box was then rolled Into and was covered almost entirely with heavy black broadcloth, festooned and reaching within eighteen Inches of the ground. Four black horses drew the car, and at the head of each animal there was a footman in livery. At St. Thomas' church a requiem mass was sung, and then the cortege wended its way to the tomb. During the morning the outer casket had been taken to the path lead ing to the entrance to the tomb. When the body arrived It was raised from the car and deposited in this outer casket, Great Preparations Made for the Marriage of the Little Crown Prince. :: :: :: :: :: In order to have the ceremony as Im posing as possible and unlike any other' In the history of the empire, the em peror of Japan appointed a commission with the Marquis Ito as the head to per fect a programme for the celebration of the crown prince' 3 wedding, which took place on Thursday. A wedding In Japan is always a ceremonious function, but in this Instance the show was unusually great, and eclipsed all previous celebra tions of a similar kind. The crown prince was born a younger son, on Aug. 31, 1879. By the death of his two older brothers he succeeded to the title of crown prince, and was pro claimed successor to the imperial crown PRIXOB YOSHIHITO HAH.UNOMIY A AND PRINCESS SADA KUJIO. I JUMUI-J. II || IIIHH ■ !■! ■!■■!., , , The Crown Prince of Japan and His Bride, Who Were Married the Other Day. In 1889, when he was tfecorated with the Grand Ordet of J^erlt and received a commission as Lionel in the Imperial Royal guards. The emperor was married when he was fifteen years old, and the crown prince would probably have followed his exam ple if he had not been in delicate health. Like his brothers who died, he has con sumption, and his physicians have made alarming reports as to his condition. He IS" not the son of the empress of Japan except by adoption. The emperor has twelve secondary wives, who come from the noblest families in Japan, and are provided so that, according to the Jap anese custom, "the empero.r may not be without an heir." The young prince is the Regicides Spring. Romantic Story Recalled by Some Excavations for Yale's New Building. A few days ago laborers at work tear- Ing down a block of old houses In New Haven, at the corner of Grove and Col lege streets, to make room, for the big group of buildings which Yale university is about to erect to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the found ing of the college, came upon a peculiar old well.' One of the laborers mentioned the incident to an old stone mason. The latter looked at the well and declared that il was the one which almost two centuries ago was built around what was known as "The Regicides' Spring." This statement furnished plenty of ground for conjecture among the "oldest inhabitants," says the New York Herald. Little by little a story was evolved that this spring was originally discovered and dug out by Goffe and Whalley, the two regicides who first came to New Haven, and later on used by John Dixwell, the third of the regicides, who sought safety in New England. There Is a tradition that Goffe and Whalley, who reached New Haven two years before Dixwell, lived during the early part of their hiding in the New Haven colony In a hut In a marsh nearby the spot where the old well has been" discovered. There is some ground for this story. It is a fact that Dixwell lived almost directly across the street from this spot. Dixwell was known in New Haven as James Davids. He took up his residence at the corner of College and Grove streets, with a widow, whom he married. It -was while living in this house that he became intimate with the Rev. Mr. Pierpont, one of the first clergymen of the colony. About.the intimacy of these two men there cluster many local tradi tions and much interesting history. Their back yards adjoined each other and over their boundary fence they held many se cret and long talks] That the well Which was discovered be neath the back doSh entrance of the old house on College street was built two centuries ago is" quite evident from the nature of its construction. It is built of substantial masonry, and very few of the stones show^an^ trace of the mason's chisel. It is also ',a very narrow well, not quite two feqt in diameter. The wells that were dug l?y the early settlers were of this character, because the digging of a well was then a,, very expensive piece of work. A well was a luxury, indeed, that only the "most prominent settlers possessed, and £rona which the entire neighborhood of-teiv.'drew water. Before the restoration of Charles" 11., in 1660, to the throne of his ancestors he had issued a "declaration" promising to all persons but such as should be excepted by parliament a pardon for offenses com mitted during Cromwellian times. In the parliamentary act of indemnity which fol lowed such as had been directly concerned in the execution of Charles L were ex cepted. Col. Whalley and Col. Goffe were mem bers of the high court of justice which convicted and sentenced him. It was soon known that they had fled from England, and a Capt. Breen reported that on a trip the tomb beside that of Dr.- Hiller by fifteen strong men. The lids were locked, and the tomb was sealed up with mason ry and covered over with dirt, making a mound about twenty feet in height. There Mrs. Hiller will lie with her hus band in the celebrated casket, which will be forever hidden from human view. For a time the tomb will be guarded to prevent desecration by vandals. The next chapter In the Hiller romance will be the will contest In the courts, and it promises to be a most interesting one. the son oii Mine. Tanagiwara, one of these court women, the empress not hay. lnp had a son herself. The Princess Bada Kujio, the fifteen year-old bride, la the crown prince's cousin, and comes from one of the oldest families In the empire. Her genealogical tree dates back, to A. D. 650, but her young husband's family records are 1,300 years older. A writer on the subject In the family, he can taunt her with not said: "If any unpleasantness happens knowing her grandfathers further back than 1,250 years. His ancestry, accord to Japanese history, begins with Jimmu Tenno, who ruled Japan 660 B. C." A marriage in the old Japanese style always takes place In the home of the bridegroom's parents, except In Instances where the man assumes the name of his wife, when the ceremor.y is performed at the bride's home. No ring is used, and no promises are madf by the pair as to fidelity, obedience, etc. The main feature of the ceremony proper con sists of drinking a number or cups of Japanese wine, or sakl, together in cer tain ways. The bride is always served first during the marriage ceremony, but never again. After marriage the hus band Is always served first. At the be ginning of the ceremonies the bride i 3 dressed in white, but this is changed later for a dress which she receives from the bridegroom's parents. The young 1 husband also changes his garb when the ceremony has been performed and puts on new garments which are the gift of the bride's parents. to New England he had seen them in Bos ton. The ministry promptly s«nt an or der to Gov. Endicott, of Massachusetts, for their apprehension and transportation back to England. No one of the New England colonies had formally expressed approval of the exe cution of Charles 1., but still these regi cides had a notably friendly welcome ex tended to them in this country. At the end of four months Intelligence reached Massachusetts of the act of In demnity and that Whalley and Goffe were among those excepted from its provisions, and that they had been marked for venge ance. Still for three months longer they lived at Cambridge unmolested. Mean while, however, affairs had been growing critical between Massachusetts and Eng land, and, though some members of the general court of Massachusetts assured them of protection, others thought it more prudent that they should have a hint to look to their safey in some way which would not imply an affront to the royal government on the part of the colony. The governor called a court of assistants In February, and without secrecy asked their advice respecting his obligations to secure the refugees. The court refused to recommend that measure, and four days more passed, at the end of which time, whether induced by others or by their own conviction of the impropriety of in volving their generous hosts in further embarrassment, they set off for New Ha ven. A journey of nine days brought Whalley and Goffe to the hospitable homo of the Rev. Dr. Davenport, where they again moved freely In the society of the minis ters and the local magistrates. But they had been scarcely three weeks In New Haven when tidings came thither of the reception at Boston of a proclamation is sued by the king for their arrest. To release their host from responsibil ity they went to Milford (as If one their way to the New Netherlands), and there showed themselves freefy In public; but, like foxes, they doubled on their trail and returned secretly to New Haven and were concealed in Dr. Davenport's house. Thence they were led to a spot called Hatchet Harbor, about -as much further in a northwesterly direction, where they lay for two nights more. Meantime, for fear of the effect of the large rewards which the messengers had offered, a more secure place of hiding had been provid ed for them in a hollow on the east side of West Rock, five miles from the center of New Haven at that time. In this retreat they remained four weeks, being supplied with food from a lonely farm house in the neighborhood, to which they also withdrew sometimes in stormy weather. They caused the deputy governor to be Informed of their hiding place, and on hearing that Daven port was In danger from a suspicion of harboring them, they left it, and for a week or two showed themselves at differ ent times in New Haven and elsewhere. After two months more of concealment In their retreat on the side of West Rock, they betook themselves Just after the middle of August to tha house of one Tomkins, In or near Mllfords. 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Mr. Russeli, hitherto minister at Wethersfleld, accom panied the new settlers as their pastor. The general court gave their settlement the name of Hadley. In this newest and remotest frontier of New England a re fuge was prepared for Whalley and Goffe. Then, except for a remarkable momen tary appearance of one of them, and ex cept for the visits of a few stanch and confidential friends, the regicides remain ed lost forever to the view of men. Pres ents were made to them by leading per sons among the colonists, and they re ceived remittances from friends in Eng land. In the tenth year of his abode at Tlad ley, "Whalley had become extremely in firm in mind and body, and ha probably did not outlive the year 1674. The house of Mr. Russell stood until about 1805. At its demolition the removal of a slab in the cellar discovered human remains of a large size. They were believed to have belonged to the stout frame which swept through Prince Rupert's lines at Nase bv Goffe survived his father-in-law three years at least; how much longer Is not known. Once he was seen by outsiders after his retirement to Mr. Russell's house. The dreadful war to which the In dian King Philip bequeathed his long exe crated name ws raging with Its worst ter rors In the autumn of 1673. On the first day of September the people of Hadley kept a fast to Implore divine protector; In their distress. While they were en gaged in worship a sentry's shot gave no tice that the stealthy savages were upon them. Hutchlnson In his history relates wQiat follows, as he had received it from the family of Gov. Leverett, who was one of the few visitors to Goffe in his retreat: "The people were In the utmost confu sion. Suddenly a grave, elderly person appeared In the midst of them. In his mien and dress he differed from the rest of the people. He not only encouraged them to defend themselves, but put him self at their head, rallied, Instructed and led them on to encounter the .enemy, who by this means were repulsed. Quite as suddenly the deliverer of Hadley disap peared. The people were left In conster nation, utterly unable to account for this strange phenomenon. It is not probable that they were ever able to explain it." In the first years of the retirement of "the colonels," at Hadley, they enjoyed the society of a former friend, who did not feel obliged to use the same strict pre cautions against discovery. John Dixwell, like themselves, waa a colonel In the par liamentary service, a member of the high court of Justice and a signer of the death warrant of the king. Nothing is known of his proceedings after the restoration of the monarchy till he came to Hadley, three or four months later than Whalley and Goffe. After a' residence of some years in their neighborhood he removed to New Haven, where, bearing the name of James Davids, and affecting no partic ular privacy, he lived to old age. The English government never traced Dixwell to America, and though among his ac quaintances it was understood that he had a secret to keep there was no disposition to penetrate it. He married twice at New Haven, and by his second wife establish ed quite a family, which for many years was prominent In local and state affairs. In testamentary documents, as well as in communications while he lived, to his ministers and others, he frankly made known his character and history. He died Just too early to hear the tidings, which CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY AT WASHIXGTOX. ~™~~"■~—~*~—• ~■—■——■_■■■■*'•••■—*_■»•—»—___________■___ fn!?T>S P t fu ii 2r Ts n*aß*l In Attempting to Raise a Fund of Jl COO 000 for This Institution. 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