Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-09
TIE CAREER OF a BOGUS LORD
AN ORVVOES MAIgaI

The New York Post reports the fol
lowing rather unromantic termination of
an episode in New York fashionable life
Last summer there appeared in New
York young man calling himself Lord
Hubert /. S. Ainsley. He ingratiated
himself into fashionable society, dressed
fashionably, gave fine dinners and rode in
an English dog cart drawn by u horse
'bobbed' in q style supposed to he Eng
lish, and at his back Was.a tiger in all
the dignity of top boots, gilt buttons and
cOckade. With a claim to a title, and
so much appearance of wealth, bis society
was cOurted by some wealthy persons.
He formed the acquaintance of aWeal
thy young lady living on Staten Island,
and soon il became known that they were
engaged TO be married. About this time
il was whispered in fashionable circles"
that the fellow was an impositor, and
that no such name as Lord Ainsley" APP
peared IN the English Book of the Peerage.
These rumOTs became so widespread and
annoying that the mother of the young la
dy dispatched a messenger to England to
ascertain about the antecedents of the
man. The instructions were fully carried
out, and it was discovered that the person
claiming to be lord had been an English
valet to a French gentleman in Paris,
where he had mastered two or three Ian
guages and learned the ways of society;
that his name was Richard Raford, and
that his father was the keeper of a stable
in London; and that, finally, he was Q
mere adyenturer and gambler. Notwith-
standing this report, the newspaper expo
sures, and the scandal which followed, the
young woman chung to the man and mar
ried him.
"The rest is soon told. He made a
brief trip to Philadelphia, attracted atten-
ton by the excellence OF his dinners, and
then returned to this city, where he en-
! gagged furnished house on Madison ave-
| nue.. For a few weeks he followed up
the same style Of living, and then took
lodgings in an obscure clearinghouse in
the same ncighbOrhood A day or two
ago his wife arose from bed to find her
diamonds, money, watch and her Eng
fish lord, all gone. On the table lay q
note saying that he had gone never to re-
| turn. The wife returned to her mother
on Staten Island, where she is said to be
lying dangerously Ill Of BRAN lever
srccoodnJ ui IN " n" oT~ ' he a ,9 amon
certain kind of wealthy society, in spite
of warnings of the press; thathe was able
| to persuade the daughter Of a wealthy
family to marry him, in spite Of the fact
nubIicas well as in private, and that LONG
after it was most clearly ascertained that
be was an lmpostor. ms invitations 10 DIN
lieIs anu JIM iCS.i' i1ios ere ny a.
tfntfons TO social standing"
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