Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1917 — Lafayette Prisoner of Austria. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette Prisoner of Austria.

After our Revolutionary war, while Lafayette was trying to reach Holland to escape enemies at home, he was seized by the' Austrian government and imprisoned as character. His wife also was imprisoned at Paris during the reign of terror, but succeeded in getting to Vienna and pleaded with the emperor for her husband’s released Lafayette’s friends in this country did what they could in his behalf and finally, on the 25th of August, ITO 7, he was set at liberty after five years confinement in a dungeon. During the Imprisonment two American friends of Lafayette, Francis K. Huger of Charleston, S. C., and Dr. Eric Bollman, made a daring attempt to liberate him for which they both were imprisoned.