Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

LONDON, February 16. - Copyright. ]
Some time ago 1 had occasion to send a
long dispatch concerning certain dark and
fascinating prince who, called himself
George Eristoff De Gourie. He had fallen
in love with Mrs. Frank Leslie. She sd-
Inired HIM, and the Marquis DeLeuville,
himself an unsavory character. had felt
displeasure; and, forgetting for once his
tight boots and waist, had lashed the prince
in Hyde Park All this required a good
deal of telling about, and when the Prince
proposed marriage to Mrs. Leslie and was
refused, and the Prince threatened to COM
NIT suicide, and hired French paper to
say that the Gar wanted to make him the
ruler of Bulgaria, the thing became very
interesting indeed.
At present the romance has worn of, but
there are still some interesting things to be
told about the Prince. They will not form
pleasant reading for Mrs. Frank Leslie, who
had good natured friendship for
THE YOUTHFUL ADvENTURER,
but they may be instructive to those who
are forming his acquaintance in America
Just now. There has been good deal of
cabling between here and America concern
ing him, people in the United States, for
reasons of their own, having sought to find
what was his character, not so much as a
princely parsonage, but more especially as
a criminal. Here are the plain unvarnished
facts, which they are in search of:
The Prince knows what jail life is like,
both in Germany and France but has
oil of Ia SnIs Io1
lodgings in this country. On the 18th of
August, 1881, he was arrested in Berlin for
fraud, and subsequently sentenced to two
years imprisonment. In September, 1888,
he was sentenced to three months imprison-
ment at Versailles, also for fraud. In
June, 1884 he was sentenced to a term of
French imprisonment for contumacy.
In September, 1884, he was in England
and incurred numerous debts. On the 9th
of March, 1856, he was arrested in London
at the demand of the French authorities on
a charge of fraud, and was subsequently,
handed over to the French police. These
latter described the fascinating Prince in
rough and unsympathetic words as "wom-
an-hunter, and declared that it had been
the trade of his life.
CAME HERE IN DISTRESS.
The Prince appears only to have come to
this country after having made the conti-
nent an uncomfortable place to be in, and
here he lived in a verv comfortable fashion
for long time. He was at the Star and
Garter, Richmond, and the proprietors re-
member him to this day to the tune of
23, 600. At one time he was on the point of
marrying very rich woman, when fortu-
nately her friends informed her what par
ticular kind of prince she was playing
with, and she disappointed him. The
Prince, while in London, went about great
deal, not SO much IN society as among
the restaurants where cooking and
credit are both obtainable by a prince.
and all the while he was discreetly
followed by quiet gentleman who was very
attentive but notobtrusive, and who watched
his movements. and consequently those of
his friends. Uncomfortable as this fact
may be for the latter, his adventures of va
rious kinds have been numerous and profit
able, and it is thought over here that the
Pinkertons have already in their possession
some interesting facts concerning him.
1t is painful to write all this about a
cheerful young man, but it may do some
good. Perhaps the most remarkable fact is
that it proves the Marquis de Leuville to
have been quite correct in what he said
about the Prince, when he had made a gal
liant attempt to demolish him.