WITH NAPOLEON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14294, 14 February 1910, Page 5

WITH NAPOLEON.

■— <» i - - ' . >;r. ; *,: ■/.■■■ : /- A CENTENARIAN'S DEATH. r * m >'«- ®@im m mmm By, Telegraph,—Press Association.-Copyrißkt • g§ _V, ' ' - Sydney,- February 12. A totfr 'naWed Williakn Johnstone, . who '•/- claimed to be cabin boy to Napoleon on hie ;• way to St.*' Helena, died yesterday, lat 105k''\ i f ■> • 1 ififtrs og'&jfa',r.w'ii i - - Somebody, conceived the idea of getting . " : Johnstone; who, had been an- inmate of St. j-,,A Joseph's.Home, Bandwick, to the theatre to j.;;; seen " A in which the ipriap:sf cipal'figure is Napoleon. " I went to see ; r the pky," he said afterwards toa Sydney . Morning Herald interviewer.: good; The* gentleman who tdofe tho pirt: • ofNai>ol«Aifct ; ver^^l. lilft him—Banv6 .Btand,\ same face,, and. nml ' land when >*& 'j with the Bellerophon aad two-or three other t boats went to St. -Helena. 1 caWn ( boy .under Mr. Wilson, and used to look ! after the Emperor's cabin. Wo used t0..; have .some great secret talks. : - Hevtras -very . V fond of : me. They didtft treat him right y ; or. the rock—not right—they were toefc rough on him. rj,.wasn't quite 11 yeam old .i: tllen. I 'She ■ (the vessel) was a 90-gunner. ' I-Was- born in- London, and' vent td Dover \ i when I was very young. That's how I came to go to. eea." 4