Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-15
CHARLES PHILLIPs's RETURN.
The Ex-President OF the Columbian
Bank on IIfs Way Home.

philadelphia Times.l
Charles Phillips, ex-president of the
defunct Columbian Bank, who fled to
Paris after the failure of that institution,
is expected TO return to this city in a
few days.
Inquirers interested in the affairs of
the bank and of the exiled banker were
informed yesterday that Mr.. Phillips
was already on his way home. An order
for the money necessary TO pay bis
passage WAS cabled to him last week. 1t
is said to have been furnished by those
who were interested III pushing the pro-
secuuon of the lves-Stayner tinauciers
in New York.
Mr.. Phillips is a necessary witness IN
that case. lie wssa director with Henry
$. Ives and George ). Stayner in the
| Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton rail
road during his presidency OF the Co
| lumbar Bank. he is said to have
| placed through the medium OF the bank
| n number OF loans fer ives and Stayncr
on ratte-trap collateral unacceptable
elsewhere, and he Is believed 10 be able
to give valuable testimony against the
eX-bankers.
Mr.. Phillips was assured OF immunity
from prosecution by the creditors Of the
Columbian Bank, and a similar promise
was made him by the prosecutors OF the
New York twin fnancers.
slB. PHILLIPS MARRIED.
The ex-President will not return with
ont possessions of his own. He has So
cured new wife. His latest letters to
his friends announce that he has married
On attractive French woman, a pr0fe0e
Of his old-time friend, the Baron dc
LOrne.
During his exile Mr.. Philips lived in
extreme poverty in a house outside the
| Notifications OF Paris secured for him,
rent free, through the influence OF the
Baron. in exile was shared 10y his two
| daughters, Mary and julia, and by two
Young sons. Ills meagre household ex-
penses were met by contributions from
a few pepole in this city who piued him
in his misiortunes, from relatives, and
from Baron de Tonne.
Mir. Phillips has a brother IN German
town. and q sister who owns a house on
| Paramount avenue. With one or the
other OF these he Is expected % take up
his residence with his new wife and the
! children, whom he is bringing back from
Paris. Two OF his children are already
living in benevolent institutions IN this
city, and third is being cared for by
Lawyer Mclaughlin, who knew the
banker in his palmy days.
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The most entertaining feature of Mr..
Phillips's family Affairs Is the announce
ment of the marriage OF ms daughter
Mary Frances TO the Baron dc L'Orme.
The new Baroness was well known IN
Philadelphia social circles, where pre-
vious to her fathers failure she WAS
shining light She is not yet twenty
one years old, and is considered beau
tiful.
The Baron is also well known here.
While Mr. Phillips Was posing a. mag
nate Of the first water the Baron arrived
from France and established himself In
financial circles as nobleman OF great
means and OF a speculative turn Of mind.
lie is remembered as a short, stout,
flasbily-dressed trenchman OF forty-iive,
with superb manners and seductive clo-
ouence. He lived with Phillips, went
into society with the family, and lett an
account on the profit and-loss page OF Mr..
Phillips's ledger to the amount Of about
5000.
For three years previous to the burst
ing Of the Columbian Bank the Baron
was the delight of the financial cOmmu-
nitv and of society. Re had no stronger
hold on anybody than on the genial
president OF the bank. He offered Phil
lips The agency for numerous fourishing
French institutions When dc Lesseps
visited this city Baron de L'Orme pro-
missed TO secure his friend Phillips the
fiscal agency for the Panama canal.
Then the Baron sent note to his canal
countryman inviting him to dine ut
President Phillips's house. The invita-
ton was ignored, but the Baron con-
WINGED his future father-in-law that 1t
was all right, and that communications
on the subject of the fiscal agency would
be Forthcoming when de Lesseps re-
turned 10 France.
FEARS FOR PHILLIPs's MIND.
The Baron appeared to have the facul-
~ Of raising the wind wherever he went.
IL he was an adventurer he seemed TO be
uniformly successful one.
A visitor to Paris from this city last
fall met the Baron at a cafe. The Baron
talked OF his chateau and asked his Phila-
delphia acquaintance TO dine with him.
Upon inquiry at the American Exchange
the Philsdelphian discovered that the
Bsrons chateau was q tenement-house
and that his ancestral estates were I'M
known.
Baron de L'Orme's attentions to Mr..
Phillips in Paris took various turns. At
one time Mr.. Phillips, with the assn
rance OF his assistance, negotiated for
the purchase OF the American Exchange
in Paris, and soon after sent note to
that Office dismissing all the employees.
He subsequently, with the cooperation
of the Baron, tried to enter into negotla-
tons for tho purchase OF Sutton's Ex-
press one of the wealthiest concerns OF
the kind in Europe.
Phillips's friends have recently re-
ceived letters from him relating his gilt
tering financial prospects and requesting
money assistance until he had secured
himself in his new career. Sometimeshe