NAPOLEON RELICS.
FIND IN BRUSSELS. FINGERPRINTS IN CANDLE GREASE. BUNDLE OF LETTERS. (Special—By Air Mall.) , LONDON, May 28. The death of a 93-year-old recluse in Brussels has revealed the existence in trunks and cupboards of priceless Napoleon relics and letters. One of the most romantic of the finds is a stump of half-burnt candle. By its guttering light Napoleon scanned his maps on the eve of Waterloo, drew his plans of the battle.
It still bears, in the now solidified grease, the prints of his thumb and forefinger, where he clumsily’ gripped the hot wax to snuff the wick. In an old trunk the searchers ’ unearthed a precious china table service. With it was a bundle of important let*tors concerning the Hundred Days.
Pieces of the coach in which Napoleon fled from the field of Waterloo, and the actual glasses through which he watched the battle raging, are among the other discoveries.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 7
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