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Since it was publicly announced 60 days ago both here and in Europe that I am preparing to exhume the body of Peter Stuart Ney, buried at Third Creek Presbyterian Church, here in North Carolina, in order to solve this 90-year-old mystery, my associates and I have received letters from Europe, Canada, Puerto Rico, and all parts of the U. S., and among those writing was a son of a former President of the United States, a U. S. Senator, several college presidents and prominent authors as well as historians. Just thought you would be interested in knowing...
...article from France giving a lengthy thesis by Dr. Andre Jager-Schmidt, French historian, who claims to have examined the archives and contemporaneous writings, and also stating this is the first time an authoritative voice from France has undertaken to puncture the Carolina belief that our Peter Stuart Ney, schoolteacher, was Marshal Ney. This article states that the French Embassy in Washington ignored a request for a statement as to the official view of the North Carolina story. I wish to state that on July 31 I wrote this Embassy informing them of my planned exhumation of the body...
...first time since the legend prevailed, a French historian has made reply to the long-existing claim in Eastern North Carolina that Marshal Michel Ney lies buried there, that he escaped execution in Paris on Dec. 7, 1817, was smuggled to Charleston, S. C. and died many years later after serving the families of Southern planters as a teacher...
...Schmidt, historian of Paris, learning of the North Carolina story for the first time on hearing that the schoolmaster's grave was to be reopened, delved into the records which, by a queer thrust of fate, happen to be housed in the very suite of Luxembourg Palace where Ney was held a prisoner during his court martial. He finds abundant evidence to show that Ney was really shot...
...intended writing TIME Letters after reading article in July 20 issue on the Marshal Ney mystery. I am now glad to corroborate information given in Charles W. Allison's letter. Aug. 24 issue, on this same subject...