Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-09-12
An Eccentric spendthfift.

MilWdukcc CcHtllfSl-, NUNS Was Tc-,
ceived from Watikeslia yesterday of
the arrest of a man at that place
who is Known as "The Coipt." The
charge against him is swindling bank
in Stockholm, Sweden, out of an i'm
mense sym of money. II 1.-The Waukesha
authorities have the right man they
have captured one who has painted
more cities deep scarlet than any man in
America, and whose life has continual
romance of dissipation for five years.
He is small fellow, his weight being
perhaps 125 pounds, and he has pale,
melancholy cast OF countenance, which
in his rare sober moments wotfld lead
the observer to believe that he might b6
theological studentin disguise;buthis
chief charm lies in his bonafide nobility
combined with the possession of what
appears 70 re the purse of FortunatnS.
No one has ever discovered definitely
the history OF THE Count, but it is be-
lieved his family name Is Eckhardt. Ills
first notable appearance in this country
was in Kansas City, where his associa-
tions and lavish expenditures attracted
the attention Of the police. Inquiries
were made, and The Swedish Consufat
st. Louis said he was all right at far as
known. 1.-The Count had a habit of
spending 1000 or more for wine in a
single week. This eccentricity was toU
gaudy for even the !erratic West, and
more inquiries were made, but they re-
suited III nothing.
One day the dissipated nobleman
meandered into ten-pin alley followed
by 4 negro with two large hampers.
1.-The Count asked the proprietor how
much he would charge for rolling ten
pins after style peculiar to the qhes
tioner. The proprietor Said he could
roll ten-pins any way from Gr;eco-R Ro-
man to cushion caroms for 81 per hour,
cash in advance. 1.-The Count" handed
the proprietor a $5 bill and told the ne
gro to go 10 the end of the alley and set
| up the pins The latter did as directed
and was foflo&ed By the man who OWL
ed The alley. The servant opened the
hampers and took out ten bottles of
Veuve Clicquot, worth $3.50 quart.
! While the proprietor was trying to pre-
vent paralysis from oSertakfng him, the
negro gravely set up the bottles and
climbed up on croSs-beam. The pro-,
prietor did likewise. The Count"
7 very grayely selected a small ball. and
with nervous motion sent 1t up
among the cross beams. The negro and
the proprietor relinquisled their seats
and went behind 1.-The Count" who
selected the heaviest BAH he could find,
and at the first roll made a ten strike.
In three rolls he demolished the two
cases and calmly walked out.
This was again too much for the pO-
lice, and they arrested him. They could
do nothing and he was released. One
night, shortly after HIS release, the po-
! Iicelfo11rd him in a house OF ill-fanie and
I locked him up. He was maudlin and
offered the contents OF trick tobacco
box to any one who co,iid open it. No
one tried, and he was perniifted to take
the box along with him to his cell. where
! he Sept ali night among a herd Of fellow
drunks, In the morning he opened the
box after he had paid his fine and dis
PLAYED two diamonds of the most re-
markable brilli2ncy and size. They
could not have been worth less than
300, and were Of perhaps twice that
value
! One day he Disappeared mSysteriously
from Kansas City, and shortly after
wards it WAS learned that he had swim.
: died Stockholm bank out of about
S30O, 900, and that he had not been ar.
rested, as Ills relatives had promised ~
. settle. His relatiyesfaiied to square
his account. and he Was arrested {
, year ago at st. Paul. lie was taker
back and Convicted but escaped through
the influence of his family. 1t is salt
he WIS ALSO guilty of murder but d
= this nOti;ihg positive is known