Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-01-08

Paris (Nov. 2S) Correspondence New York Tim

faris tNov. 2>) Correspondence New Ork Times.
The story of the young Armenian, Ostanick
der Marcariantz, also calling himsclfa Prince,
is !: very curious one, but | must relate it
briefly. The journals hardly dare to call him
q swindler. SO singular are the facts. 4 few
years ago boy came from Turkey TO be
educated, passed through the university, and
graduated number one and then entered the
agricultural college at Grignon. lie was very
rich and very studious lie took the highest
honers. 4 year ago he began to order mod
els of agricultural machines, and when re-
monstratcd with On account OF the cost, which
he paid cash down, he laushingly replied:
''Oh, am another Monte CristO, and it is
am TO be Minister of Agriculture. lie studied
with great diligence, always had large sums
Of money and spent them freely. There
was never the ghtcst thing against him at
Grignon, although, in any but an Eastern
Prince, the rich presents he made would have
been thought strange. He had models of all
sorts of machines made ut q cost of 20O. 900
francs, and paid for them. Some time ago
he came to Paris and took rooms at the Grand
Hotel. paying for his horses, his servants and
himself about 500 per day. He paid his bills
regularly. He bought So. 600 worth Of dia-
monds and paid cash for them, and then be-
gan to give dinners. to which Emile de Girar-
din, Lemoinne, Molinari and other serious
literary men were invited. He continued his
sldics on agriculture, worked hard five or six
hours a day and wrote q great deal. Finally
the police became anxious to know where
he got his nlsney. On inquiry at the Ottoman
Embassy, they were told that the Armenian
Prince Ostanick was \ rascal, an escroc, but
where he got bis money was not known. He
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ner Of disguises the detectives visited him.
and one took service as domestic, finding
that the young man worked hard, paid cash
for everything, and that there was really
nothing to his dscredit. lie frequently or
dered jewelry, but always paid the bill, no
matter how high the sum, whenever pre-
scented But month ago he told a creditor
for the first time to call again. He had or
dered many things, but did not pay the bills
as usual. He said he was short for the mo-
ment. His hotel bill-an enormous one. by
the by-was paid, but the tradesmen were
put off, Finding that Prince Ostanick was
watched by the police, creditor brought suit
against him, and then all the rest came down
upon him in a pack. lie was charged with
rascality, arrested, and lodged in prison.
He took it very coolly, said that he should
soon have more money, asked for agricul-
tural books and writing materials, aud is now
working more diligently in Mazas than at the
Grand Hotel. Now, what is this mystery: ::
Certainly this young man has expended two
millions in two years, and now owes two
hundred thousand francs. The question is
to know whether he is really Monte Cristo
or rogue, and, if the latter, how he came
by his money, and why he should be so Sc
rious student One report is that he is the
natural son of Minister. who has been taken
up by political party in order to fit him to
succeed his father. The second is that he is
thief of the worst SORT The police are
now hard at work, and can give the results
of their inquiries in few days, perhaps.
For the present all we can learn is that Ia
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