Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — FLED IN DISGUISE [ARTICLE]

FLED IN DISGUISE

Noted Men Who Escaped Captivity by Subterfuge. / In Hours of Grave Danger Soldiers of Proved Bravery Have Not Heai- - tated to Lives by Ignominious Flight. Gen. Hans von Beseler of the German army is said to have escaped out of Poland tn disgmsens a—stowaway on board a Vistula river steamboat. Tn the fall of 1914 Von Beseler was glorified as the Conqtierer‘ of the city of Antwerp, the chief stronghold of Belgium' mid the chief port of continental Europe. Germany's conquer- ; lug heroes of 1914 have been van- i quhhed and Vnu Boseler is hut one I of a great company of notable fugitives who have saved, their lives by fleeing in disguise. Judge Jeffries of English history, whose name H associated with the “bloody assizes." tried to hide himself and escape the vengeance his savage cruelty merited by donning the garb_of a. coal jniner mid hiding in a tavern at Woking, but he was recognized, captured, imprisoned tn the Tower of London. where he soon <li»‘«r. Prince Charles Edward j Stuart, pretender to the throne of i Great Britain, escaped from Scotland j in petticoats, disguised as Betty Burke, maid to Flora MacDonald. | Louis Pbillippo. the "citizen king”' of ■ France, tied to the coast of Normandy i .where he posed ns "Mr. Smith." a Brit-., ish subject, in order to secure passage to England on a .steamboat. Napoleon 111, while a pretender to the throne of France, was Imprisoned in the fortress of Ham. After several months of confinement repairs were begun -on the fort ress.—Napoleon bribed one of the carpenters to smuggle in a workman s garb for his disguise. He dressed himself in the coarse overalls and blofise, shouldered a short plank, which he carried on edge' so as to conceal his face, and walking past his guard, he escaped l to Belgium and thence to England. Porfirio Diaz was twice compelled to flee from Mexico and seek safety in the I'nited States. He made one trip from New Orleans to \ era Cruz•disguised. as a stoker on board a steamship and was soon leading a new band of revolutionists. Empress Eugenie, disguised as a servant woman. was taken out of Parts by Doctor. Evans, an American dentist, in whose house she had been hidden. Thus she escaped the blind fury of the French mob and gained safe asylum in England. Jefferson Davis, fallen president of the Southern Confederacy, is said by his enemies to have tried to escape out of the country and evade his pursuers disguised in woman’s garb, but he was captured and imprisoned until the passions of some of the northern fire-eaters had cooled.