The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1881-01-09

signy -Lemoine, who is also supposed TO have
replied that she would do nothing of the
kind. Then the princess was appealed to, but
she also turned deaf ear, although IL is again
supposed-everyt thing except the denouement
OF this lamentable business is mere supposi-
tion-that she led her granddaughter TO be-
iieve ina a. she she would pay the bill on pre-
sentation, but would not be bothered With
Its Endorsement. However this mag be, bill
Tor lsO, Oe0f.=-it may be-, as some say for only
100, 000-was signed ii1toteedi handed In az
the bank of NJ. de Rothschild, and cached,
without hesitation by the Baron, but refused
when brought to theprincess, bywhom II was
denounced as forgery. Baron Rothschildmost
generously declined to take proceedings
against the guilty parties, who threw them
selves qt the feet Of theft aged relative and
besought her pity. All II vaih the old
woman wasimplacable; justice, she said, must
TAKE IT'S course, and, II we are to believe ru-
NOR, 1t is in her name and on her complaint
,hat NJ. and Nine. Friedman were arrested.
UP TO the last moment IL was hoped that the
Princess might relent, but she continued
obdurate, making restoration of the entire
sum thus obtained on false pretenses the |
| s,nc qua non of the withdrawal of the charge.
IN pursuit of which the oulprits were brought |
up on Saturday before the examining Judge. |
NJ. Adam. i, When she learned this condition |
OF Affairs, Mile. de Persighy, lovely girl of |
| 10, who, since her sisters incarceration has
become dependent upon the public charity,
went to Chselhurst TO solicit the interferance
OF the Empress, and although she did not
| obtain an interview with her ex-Maiesty. IL
IS thought that the offer made by an Eng
lish banker to settle all the Liabilities of the
Friedman family, the advance TO be repaid
by annuties Of 81 900, was at the instance
OF the illustrious exile. We shall see in |
few days title whether the ohiy condition
imposed will be accepted by Nine. de Per-
signy, to wit, her personal guarantee of re-
endorsement, on which the betting is two TO
one against, with few takers. The affair
continues to furnish much food for scandal.
as the personalities concerned are extern
sively known all over the Continent, and
the vienna press gives certain revelations
concerning one of the parties, which, with
out generating Madame, seem to indicate
that M. Friedman was the instigator of the
crime perpetrated by his wife. "Baron"
friedman has no right whatever, says one
newspaper, to the title; he was simply good.
looking young fellow who won Nine. Lee
moine's good graces by the elegance of his
manners and the liberality with which he
spent, at Nice and Monaco, his fathers for
tune, said father being a respectable, but
especially plebeian, tradesman of Prague,
Tor whom an alliance with ducal house in
france was dream of glory. The wedding
was celebrated with great pomp in Paris,
whittier the worthy linen-draper came, and
was SO enchanted when, at the nuptial .
breakfast, his daughter-in-law said to him,
with an enchanting smile upon her lovely
Ups, Papa, vie haben sic gefressen - that I
he at once added diamond necklace to his
already costly presents. So long as the
mother OF the late Duke lived and could help
them, the young couple got along nicely, but !
there is an end TO all things. Old Nine.
rain died, the estate cut up less well than
had been expected, the creditors. as / have
said, clamored, Nine. Friedman made the
unfortunate mistake of writing her grand
mothers name instead of her own on a bit of
stamped paper, and the crash came, and
with 1T the discovery that the "Baron - is
bogus. l am sorry for the relatives of the
splendid soldier, " ie brare DIES brares," as he
was called, but am glad that this misad-
venture did not happen to an American
family, as our countrymen and country
women are the usual victims of the spurious
counts, princes, and marquises who infest q
the drawing-rooms of foreign residents in a
Paris, whittier they are brought by unsus-
picious Young America and Young England,
whose acquaintance they have made origi-
/
There has just been an'instance of French | :.
credulity and snobbishness in the Faubourg F
st. Honore which shows that snobs and fools L
may be found even among the natives-the
autochtones, as nj. Gustave Flaubert would
have termed them. Prince X.-Icall him x. \
Tor his real name is yet an unknown quanti- Of
" in spite of the efforts of NJ. Andrieux's NJ
agents to discover his identity-Prince Y. -
'ame, saw, and was admitted to several cir
lies in the vicinity of the Palace de L Opera. =
he played high, lost, and paid without hest
alton; was never caught with, or even sus-
'ected of having, an extra pack of cards up
us sleeve, and, finally, was invited to one of
he most fashionable houses in the Roule r
quarter. Here he met Mile. Y, abeauty and | /
IN heiress, who was charmed with the Prince
md his title, and with the consent of her pa-
ents engaged herself to marry him. So far
verything was gay and festive; the trousseau
vas ordered the date for the signature of the
ontract was liked, when, Just as the invita- {
loDs were about to be issued, the future
ather-in-law received and communicated to
lis future son-in-law a number of letters, not
nonymous, whence it appears that Y. is not II
prince; that he is penniless cheraiier d. in
sstre, and that he had been forced to leave
he country of his birth for that country's
God. Great was the Indignation of the noble
Eranger, who only asked for eight and forty
ours time, at the end of which he would N,
confound his calumniators and unmask L
heir Vaccinations" M. Y. was only too will
lg to be persuaded that the suitor of his child
the real Simon Pure; he granted the re-
uest, but instead of interdcting to him all
isis until the mystery should be cleared UP,
authorized their continuance. Eplogue
asst Tuesday, the Prince and his young y,
oman eloped, fleeing by night to some other ~
lime, and paterfamilias is left inconsolable
is former financial functionary, immens-
rich, who owns one of the most snmptuous NJ
lateaus in France, few miles only distant
ON the capital and heasked himself whether
! his heiress is self-willed and obstinate.
might not have been wiser in his generse- NJ
ON II ne mad held his tongue and paid the W
rince's debts instead of setting the Police to
scover the truth of the accusation that the
'allachian is only discharged servant of
oyard who resides in one of the Danubian
Correspondence ~. y. Times.
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