The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-22

yesterday. viii, to tell you the truth
when taking dinner | had already heard
! from my London bankers declining to send
me any money. 1 fully intended to tell
you but | thought you might cut up rough
about it if l told you that was leaving
i Paris. In word, / am in fix Things
went badly with me in Paris and only
had just sufficient TO bring me to England.
/ | will pay you the money | borrowed from
| YOU as soon as possible. Yo1 will not lose
| penny, and pleasefkeep it dark from your
| people. l thought to make a good thing at
the races, but everything went wrong. l
have got throug a pile of money since
came to Europe, and trust you will rest
! quietly until | am able to pay you, and
trusting you will forgive me, 1 remain
! yours faithfully, SID
! ''JuSt before | received this letter met
a young woman who had helped the gay
Landeschut to pass his time away during
his stay in Paris. / don't know whether
she is remembered in New York, but
believe she was here under the manage
ment of Maurice Graft. At any rate, she
is well known in England as she took the
place of Vanoni the dancer at the Alham-
bra. Edinee Lescott, for that is her name,
asked me what had become of my friend
told her | didn't know. You do not
know she replied with establishment
Mon dieu, what shall do He promised
me el00 by yesterday and now l shall
have to pawn my Jewels
at appeared from what the fair Edinee
said that she had lavished champagne sup
pers on Landeschut, given petit dinners in
his honor, and he had used her horses and
carriages, and managed all of this on prom
ises merely promises.
''I'lle Lescat told me that Landeschut
drove a remarkable fine pair of horses in
London, and from this remark | inferred
he met her in London. He introduced her
to me.''
''He was still known as Landeschut, was
he mott asked the Erdminer correspon-
dent.
Yes, always Landesehut | cannot
understand how he turns up in New York
feted by everybody, receiving letters from
England, greeted with courtesy by dis
tinguished English gentlemen in this coun-
try under the name of Egerton. 1 am posi-
tive he presented letters of introduction as
Landeschut in London.
81 can account for it only in one way. When
l first met him in the Indian ocean, and af-
forwards in London, he had very long
whiskerS. When / met him in Paris he
had shaved these off. / recognized him,
but l doubt whether his casual acquaint-
ances would
Among Mr.. Bigler's papers is an interest
lag voucher in Re Bigler VS.. Landeschut,
tilletS EuBeEUOu IL Is ltldG tH dChHONISuSG-
ment of the latter'S indebtedness, all but
200 francs, which was not then advanced
Paris, April "a, 1889, /. o. q. fifteen hun
dred francs, 1,500 frs, Sidney S. Lande-
schut. 'nMr. Bigler also possesses Mr.. Lam
deschut's Australian address, which is No.
1112 Collins street, Melbourne.
Inspector Barnes men have been busily
investigating Mr.. Landeshut's doings in
New York and after the matter is disposed
of, there may be new complications for the
enterprising traveller to meet. He had
purchased ticket for Liverpool on the
steamship Eturia, but at the last moment
changed his mind and succeeded in getting
the agent of the Cunard here to refund the
money for his passage. He also en-
deavored to leave the Brunswick hotel
without settling his accounts when the
clerk insisted upon the bill being settled.
He paid half his score and offered draft
upon the British consul. He subsequently
told the clerk not to present the draft and
he would take up the note The clerk in
sisted upon his taking it up Immediately,
which Edgerton did with very bad grace.