St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-11
i ROMANTIC CRIMINAL.
The Record OF Prado, Citizen OF
The World.
DON JUAN SURPASSED.
Wild Career of a Supposed Son q
Louis Napoleon---Matrimony +
and Murder. !

New York Herald. al
Prado. the mysterious assassin OF
Marie Aguetant Tor Agateau), the ex-
traordinary Count Linsk de Castllll9n,
whose exploits have for the past six
months provided Paris with an eyer
varying series of sensations, will be trletl
Nov. 5 at the Seine aSsiZes. Never dld
Gaboriau or Ponson de Terrail evo,ve
from their prolific brains a hero with a
more strangely adventurous career.
One day grand seigneur, next chew
alier d'industrie. Next day an offieenln
the army of Don Carlos, and the next a
Don Juan of public crossroads, rob-
Der, and now a presumed assassin.
AN ADvENTURER.
Prado will appear in the prisoner
dock at the head of an etat-major OF
Among them will be Jose Garcia, An
dres Roberto and Ybanex, Encarnacion
Prades and Eugene Forester. other
wise Nine. Marley: Mauricette Mar
guerite COuronneau and Mathilde
Angelo Daull. Although volumes have
been written about the assassin of
Marie Aguetant. Prado still remains an
enigma. For three years past M. Fal-
cimaigne, substitute du procureur gen
eral, has worked at his dossier, and
with unremitting toll has unraveled the
strange thread of his career.
A STARTLING DOCUMENT.
M. FaIcimaigne has now drawn up
the acte d'accusation, which will long
be remembered III the annals of French
criminal Jurisprudence.
At ten o'clock on the evening of the
2Sth of last November man was ar
rested on the banks Of the Seine. near
the Quay de la Conference, for having
committed an atrociouS robbery after
having wounded policeman with a
revolver. This man was Linsk de Cas-
tilion. He gave his name, however, as
Prado v Ribo.
This name was false. as were also the
names of Mendoza, Hare and Crasset.
liy which lie had successfully styled
himself. The name of ''Linsk de Castil-
Ion" is. in fact, inscribed in the registry
Nov. l, 1887. and also in the certificate
of birth of his child. whose mother was
a woman named Couronneau. living at
Bordeau. He himself explains that the
marriage was celebrated by the use of
forged papers and consequently his etat
civil is unknown. althoughit is firmly
believed that he is sou of Napoleon,
and that his mother was a lady in wait
ing at the court of the empire.
What is certain is that in 1868 he went
to school Che then being thirteen years
old) at Dion, and that an elderly lady
in affluent circumstances, who was al
ways dressed in black, and who has now
mysteriously disappeared, used to have
charge Of him. 1t was then he COM
mitted his first crime by robbing his
mother of all her jewels and running
away. He then travelled round ,the
world, stopped at Mozambique, at Cal
cutta, at Hong Kong, at Hayti and San
Francisco, and remained for several
months in New York. In 1871 he was a
lieutenant in the army of Don Carlos.
Taking advantage of a ten days leave
of absence he crossed the frontier into
France and effecte robbery of 5000
francs. He rejoined the army in time
to distinguish himself at the siege OF
was taken prisoner and sentenced to be
shot, but the daughter of the governor
of San Sebastian, whom he had Sedueed,
saved bis life. Afterward he was badly
wounded at the battle of SUmmoroStrO,
and was carried in an ambulance to a
hospital, where he WAS nursed by a
Sister of Charity, Of the order of st.
Vincent de Paul. He seduced the
Sister of Charity, who was near rela-
tive of the Duke OF -, and afterward
married her, and made, tour with her
to Jerusalem. Syria and Egypt. He
brought his wife back to Naples in a
dying condition. and she died at Ischia.
1t is believed that he poisoned her.
Prado then went to SavOna, where he
distinguished himself by stealing, in
broad daylight and in one of the most
frequented streets of the city. 10000
francs worth of jewelry. Two hours
afterwards he disposed OF the jewels
and returned to Europe.
After having taken part in the last
campaign of the Carlist insurrestion,
he went to Peru. At Lima he married
woman of excellent family, who
brought him dowry of 1.200. 600
francs. By this wife he had one child,
who died young. His wife also died very
funeral he lost 100000 francs in game
of poker.
Driven out of Lima by the indignant
relatives of his wife, he returned to
Lisbon. He then went Oh a voyage of
discovery to Mozambique and Madagas-
car, sending accounts of his travels to
the Royal Geographical Society of
Madrid. Next year he returned to
Madrid and opened gambling house,
where. in one night he won 100000
francs by means of a cheating roulette
table. This" Prado said, sis the
only money that l ever earned with real
pleasure. For Oh that occasion /
robbed the robbers themselves
In very few days he srent
all his money, and by making love
to a Spanish marschioneSS. eighty years
of age, he succeeded in getting her to
make him presents worth $4,000 francs.
In 1878 he met at San Sebastian beau
tiful Spanish lady named Dolores
Garces y Macilla, who is descended
from the kings of Aragon, and on the
1st of November married her at Madrid.
She brought with her dowry of no.
coo francs. This wife is still living i'm
misery In letter to preeureur gen
eral she relates a heart-rending tale of
how Prado seduced her. married her,
stole her property, brutally maitre ted
her and finally left her in the gutter.
In 1888 Pedro left Spain and came to
live in Paris, where he became chem
ist and swlndled NJ. Ramos, partner.
in scheme for the chemical disinfec-
ton of the Paris hospitals, out of all his
money. -
While in Paris he seduced Young
lady, and after other adventures of ,the
same kind he lived maritaIly with
woman named Eugene Forester Nine.
Varlay) who for three months had been
separated from her husband. a.
The woman became passiollately fond
of him and gave him all her money, At
this time his entire property consisted
of the clothes he had on and three
shirts. 1t was while he was living with
Nine. Farlay that the terrible murder of
Marie Aguetant became the sensation
of Paris. NJ
Marie Aguetant was murdered on the
night of Jan. IA, 1886, in the third story
of No. 50 Rue CaumartiH. Marie
Aguetant was a femme gaiante. She