Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-06
HIS REAL NAME A SECRET.
Se-Called "Prado' Sentenced to Death
at Paris.
a Greater, Criminal Than Pranzini-
No One Has Been Able to FathOm
His Identity or Nationality,

Prado, the maa who murdered Marie
Aguetan for her jewels, has been SEN
fenced to death, no extenuating circum-
stances being found in his favor, says
the New York World. The murderer re-
cesued the sentence in q jaunty manner.
Extenuating circumstances modified the
sentence of others connected with the
crime. Garcia received five years, An
dres and Ibanes four years each, and
Dault two years, Mime Couronneau,
Eugene Forester and Pablo were ac-
quilted.
Prado's life career read like a long ex-
tract from the pages of Gaboriau. In
turn he has been sailor, soldier, gambler,
sWIndler, general adventurer and muir
derer. After having served with the Car
lists, Prado, alias Count Linska &c Cas-
tiIlion, went to Peru, and in Lima he mar
Eied lady who bought him a dowry of
G48,000. The lady died suddenly, and
Prado, who has gambled away $4,000 of
the dowry, was sent away from Lima by
the Iad'ys family. The Count next APP
peared at Oporto, in Portugal, where he
robbed a jewelers. shop and entered the
place again few weeks after in order to
leave letter for the jeweler on his count
er, in which communication the burglar
GOOIY EDlO HIS VlCGlLl " iOOk carefully
after the place. From Oporto Prado
went to Madrid, where he opened a gam
bling saloon, cheated a lot of Greeks, sup
posed to be sharp as himself, out of a
large sum of money, and got $4,000 from
a venerable Sonora of sixty, to whom he
made love.
In 1879 he married Dolores Garces Y
Marcilla, said to be descended from the
kings of Arragon. She brought him
$1,000, and is now starving in garnet in
Madrid. In 1886 Pedro came to Paris,
where he made the acquaintance of
EugeHie Forester, who has given most
discriminating evidence against him. Ia
January, 1888, Maria Aguetan, lady of
easy morality, who occupied a magnif
cent suite of rooms in the Boulevard de
Ia Madeline, was found murdered in her
bedroom under precisely the same cir
cumstances as those of Marie Regnault's
assassination by Pranzini, q year later.
Immediately after the crime Pedro left
Paris suddenly. Forester was in the
meantime struck by the description OF
the supposed murderer, which was given
IN the papers, bull being fond of the
fellow, she hesitated before communicat-
ing her suspicious to the police. Prado
went to Bordeaux, where he met young
WOulhu udIu6u WhSA1 Ito
seduced under promise of marriage.
In Bordeaux he stole $4,000 from a
jeweler, and, returning TO Pavis, he
boldly annexed diamonds and precious
stones worth $4,000 from an old Spanish
usurer named Lorenzo, who travelled
about carrying with him a casket of dia-
monds and pearls which were worth $780,
900. Prado put up in the same hotel in
the Champs Elyseas as Lorenzo, and in
gratiated himself with his inteneed vic
tim, to whom he gave ticket for the
Chatelet. While Lorenzo, his wife and
daughters we're at the theater, Prado
stole the casket, which he had great diff
Guilty in finding, as it was in an iron safe.
This had to be broken open, and the
noise attracted the attention of two hotel
walters, who. followed Prado to the door
of the establishment, whittier he was
going with the stolen treasure. Prado's
exit was barred by the walters, and he
then took to his heels in the dark, and
was caught by two policemen, one of
whom he wounded. Shortly afteward a
whole band of his accomplices, male and
female, and of various natioualities, was
likewise captured.
Eugene Forester gave the police in
dicatiens respecting Marie Aguetan's jew
elry, some of which was given to her by
Prado and some sold in Madrid. In De-
oember, 1887, Prado wrote from Mazas
Prison to Forester, asking her to save
him, and promising that he would then
devote his life to her. This was regarded
by the judges as tantamount to ap ac-
acknowledgement of the crime. The &C
completes of Prado In various robberies
were tried with him. Among these were
Jose Gracia, an ex.prefect of Spanish
department; Roberto Andreas, rlined
merchant; Incarnation Pablo, ex-singer
and the divorced wife of Spanish officer;
Mathilde Daull, a beauty of the boule-
wards, and Ybanes, supposed to have as
sisted Prado in the murder of Marie
Aguetan.
One of the most remarkable features of
the case is that, Notwithstanding the
most searching investigation on the part
of the police, it has been absolutely i'm
possible to discover either Prado's real
name or his nationality.