Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — A Lad of Mystery. [ARTICLE]

A Lad of Mystery.

For a little while about the middle of the nineteenth century “that awful boy Jones” was the torment of Queen Victoria’s life, and his short career in public contains a mystery which would try the mettle of Sherlock Holmes. He was a barber’s apprentice who in some unexplained way discovered a passage into Buckingham palace, with which he alone was acquainted. When he was first found trespassing he was gently admonished and sent home. Soon after he was encountered again in the palace. He would not tell how he obtained access. Again he was sent home, and again he reappeared. Once he calmly admitted that he had been lodging In the palace for a fortnight. He had laid snug during the day, sleeping in the royal apartments, and at night had wandered from room to room, helping himself to the food left over from royal repasts. He had seen the queen repeatedly and Indeed had never been far from hr. The matter was conoid red so serious that the boy was summoned before a special meeting of the privy council. He refused to give any account of his secret Boon after he disappeared, and it is supposed thgt he was removed under state protection.— London Globe. When a man first joins a lodge he is very enthusiastic, but when the first assessment becomes due he begins 1 to take leas interest. * * |