St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-12
count" JACQUES KRUGER.
How a Soft Minneapolis Reporter
Was CIeverIy Hoaxed.

\ previous young reporter on an aft
ernOOn paper, who hauntS hotel CORR
doris for the precious privilege of con-
versing and being seen with actors, was
cleverly hOaXed by Jacques Kruger, of
the Gypsy Baron" company. The ac-
cOmpliShed Kruger accOmmodatingly
loaded the youth to the muZZle with
Wad of good stuff about himself
was afterwards telegraphed. east as a
sensational item. The New York
Morning Journal says, concerning the
reception of the news of kruger's good
luck at Gotham:
The Rialt0 was in hubbub of excite
ment yesterday over the story which
was telegraphed from Minneapolis that
Jacques Kruger. the bassO in '"The
Gypsy Baron" company, which is tray
cling through the West under the man.
agement of Herr Conreid, formerly of
the Casino, had fallen heir to an estate
worth Sl,0O0,000 in Brussels, and that a
cash deposit of $50, 600 had been placed
at his disposal by Achille Dubarrp. the
Partisan lawyer for Mr. Kruger. As if
this were not enough good fortune to
befall poor actor i'll one day, the story
went OH to relate that title goes with
the property, and that Jacques Kruger's
name in future will be billed as the
Count de Cartier de la Bots. Everybody
on the RialtO knows Kruger, and his
friends were in ecStaSieS over the story.
When in this city Jacques is one of the
boys. He is bosom friend of Bob
billiard and Ed ArOnSOn, and is known
TO every professional from the meek
song and dance art list to the sonorous
tragedian. Mr.. Kruger made his first
hlp of Al,
burleSque on the Pirates of PenZance.n
He is dashing comedian, and only De
Wolf Hopper can compare with him i'm
the length and deXterity of his legs. Lii
liam Russell was with Tony Pastor at
the same time, and Kruger and Lillian
sailed into popularity together. The
news of Jacques's good luck came to the
ears of his New York friends Yesterday
morning, and all sorts of schemes were
soon under way TO get a share of the
immense estate in France, said to be
1000 acres i'll extent. EX-managers
who have been patrOniZing free lunches
for weeks braced up and smiled once
more as they remarked, "Now we shall
be all right. The Count de Cartier de
la Bols will start us OH the road and
furnish all the cash we want.'' One
Sanguine individual went so far as to
borrow dollar from a charitable friend
and used it in telegraphing his congrat-
ulatlons to the count. Kruger's old
friend and manager, Tony Pastor. was
seen by morning Journal reporter and
questioned about the truth of the story:
Il am pleased to hear of the counts
good fortune" said Tony. II always
thought there was something romantic
about the count and now know if. He
often told me that his grandfather was
guillotined for treason to the Emperor
Napoleon. | didn't doubt the guillO-
tine part of the story, but | was a little
scary on the cause of the grandfather's
execution. Well, there is nobody who
can spend S1,00OOO0 quicker than
Jacques and l congratulate him.
ED ARoNSoN TELEGRAPHED HIS JOY
to the count and invited him to visit
New York at once, and Bob billiard
looked more cheerful than he has done
since the disastrous outcome of his tilt
against Mrs. Langtry and Freddie Geb-
hard. The friends of the count will be
panied to hear that there is large
doubt upon the Minneapolis tale. The
dispatches stated that Mr. Kruger's law
yers in this city were Messrs. Ravel &
LafaVre. There is no such firm in New
York, but Ravel and Lafavre are prom
ment characters in 1.-The Gypsy Baron"
and 1t is feared that the extent of the
counts acquaintance with the firm ends
there.