The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-21
count, ZACHAROFF,s WIVES.
Miss Billings, Who Is One Of Them, Re-
turns to the City of Her Nativity.

New YORK, October 17.-Miss Billings,
who married the ''Count' Ia charoff only to
find on her bridal tour that he had already
q wife in Bristol, England, reached home
yesterday by the Gallia. She was regis
tered on the passenger list as Mrs. Zoeine,"
and was accompanied by William w. jerks,
the attorney who had been sent over by
the family to face Zacharoff with the proofs
of his guilt.
When Zacharoff Suddenly left New York,
a week or two after his marriage, it is said
that he took a Rotterdam steamer by ad-
vice that he could not be arrested on Dutch
soil for bigamy. s. A. Billings, the brother,
dispatched Mr.. jerks by the Servia, sailing
at about the same time and arriving at
Liverpool several days before the Dutch
steamer reached port. Mr.. jerks, with
some difficulty, persuaded the Bristol lady,
whom Zacharoff had married several years
ago to accompany him to Rotterdam. Ar
rived there they consulted with the American
consul, Richard Stockton, who furnished
them his aid. When the Leerdam was
sighted Mr.. jerks went out to her in Il tug
and told Miss Billings, as the steamer
touched the dock, that Consul Stockton
would like to see her.
Wondering somewhat, but without pro-
test, she asked the Count" to accompany
her, and in the Consuls office the real Nine.
ZacharOff confronted her husband. At
first he declared that he had never seen her
before, and Miss Billings believed him until
she was shown picture taken some twelve
years ago OF Zacharoff and the Bristol lady.
Then other and conclusive proofs were ex-
hibited. Zacharoff stole off, no attempt
being made to detain him, and Miss Billings
consented to take the next steamer home
with Mr.. jerks. Nine. Zacharoff returned
to her fathers home in Bristol. No one
knows what became OF Zacharoff.
j. A. Billings went down by the revenue
steamer to meet his sister and brought her
back in the tug. She looked greatly worn
and distressed. When her brother begged
her to go to their mothers horse she tear
fully refused. mo, will not go home,"
she said IL cannot" Mr.. Billings took her
to his home in Brooklyn.
1t is learned that Miss Billings fortune OF
5000, 900 or 100000 is in the hands OF
trustees, and that the adventurer could
not possibly have secured control of any
thing more than the annual income OF
$4,000. 1t is curious fact in his several
years career i'll this country that he al.
ways had plenty of money, yet no charge
Of fraud or swindlidg seems ever to have
been made against him over here. He was
rather lender than a borrower among his
intimates. Where he got his funds, unless
rom foolish women, was always mystery
Immediate steps viii be taken by the fam
ly of Miss BillingSto have the marriage an
nulled. The code provides this remedy for
such mistate on the part of a young wO-
man.
Mr.. jerks learned that Zacharoff, who
had at various times pretended to be a
Prince OF the Gortschakoff family, an Egyp-
ian Pasha and Count, was really Greek
of humble origin and was for years a clerk
n the empty OF NJ. Hemphistides, the Gre
ian merchant whom he afterwards des-
)Oied