Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-11-03
MURATS NAME
STAINED as 4 COMMON THIEF'S S.
The DiSgraceful Record of His Titled
Papa.
PRINCE LUCIEK'S SHADY CAREER.
He Married an American Wife Only TO
Break Her Heart.

PHILADELPHIA, November En- view
of the statement made by Miss Caldwell's
friends that her whilom fance, Prince
Joachim Murat, ia il every sense Of the
word q good match and Of illustrious de-
scent, the record of his father in this coun-
try, is of pacalisr interest.
The TACT, toe, that the engagement be-
tween Prince Murat and Miss Caldwell
has been virtually declared off, because
she had inserted IL the marriage contract
provision that left her mistress Of her
own income, while 1t may moi stamp the
Primes as fortune hunter, at least shows
that he nas inherited from his illustrious
father keen appreciation of psc1rlary
advantages.
Prince Lucien Murat, Joachims' father,
Was shipped 10 this country soon after the
downfall OF Napoleon, IL 1915, by relatives
who considered themseivee disgraced by
his escapades on the Continent. Joseph
Bonsparte was then living luxuriously at
BoIdentown, n. j., and at bis home Prince
Murat was welcomed with open arms. He
was treated as one of the family and sup
piled with funds by Bouaparte, which he
dispensed with q lavish hand. Here the
exile might have lived in ease until the
restoration of tte French Empire had he
not INDUCED in his dishonest proclivihes
and been detected cheating bis benefactcr
in friendly game OF cards.
CHEATED AT CARDS.
Expelled from the BOnsplrte mansion,
Prince Lucien came to PhIladelphia, and
here his title gained him the entree TO
swell society. He borrowed right and left,
and his card playing made him q comfort
able income. On one occasion Virginia
gentleman named Robert Digges, who was
playing with him at anOted gaming saloon
on Fourth street, below Chestnut, noticed
several peculisrities about the gsme that
could be explained only on the
theory that some one was cheat
ing. He soon assured himself that
Murst was playing "brsce" game,
and, going TO q billiard table, he
got cue and astonished the spectators by
laying it over the Pfnce's shoulders with
an earnestness that made that gentleman
howl with anguish. About 1896 Prince
Lucien married Mise Caroline Frazier,
member Of an old South Carolina family.
Sho bad some property in land and slaves,
oil Of which the noble bridegroom quickly
spent. Thenceforth the unfortunate
woman's life was one Of toll end sorrow.
She moved to BOrdentown and did every
ching possible to support her children;
KEEP. boarding house, taught school and
did her best to keep mp the self-respect of
the family.
After the Digges affair in Phladelphia,
Murat discarded all pretense to respecta-
bility and
BECAME A HORSE DEALER,
and was better known than respected
through Southern and Western New Jer-
sey. For a time his suave and elusive
manner and magnificent capacity for lying
enabled him TO do a good business with
the hard hearted farmers, and even with
them his title was telisman. He was
utterly Withou. shgme or GcTuples, and
would borrow of hostler Or wandering
tinker. but he sometimes met his match.
In 1912 a nan named Abel Goings lived
OF the line of the Delaware and Raritan
canal, and his business was dealing in ca
nal Jsams. He had q son gho Wss not
considered very bright, aud who was M
der age His father had given him a fire
sorrel mare. and Murat met bin at g tav-
ern near Trenton. The poor "hayseed"
was pleased by the attentions and asttery
literally bestowed by the Prince, and fnal-
y traded the mare for plug worth $40,
getting, BESIDES, Murat's note for 800.
Old GOines WAS man Of few words, and be
started out on horseback TO look for the
Prince, and found him 1T tavern a few
miles north of BOrdentOwn. He mt once
bsuled Murst cut Of the buggy and gave
him a tremendous lashing with horse
whir, and soon effected On arrangement
for restitution more 10 his own advantage
than it was to Murat.
DESERTED HIS WIFE.
About 1914 Prince Lucien's circum-
stances seemed to improve and IL vas
known that he received considerable moa-
ey in Iemittances from Europe bat his
creditors were no better off. When, in
1S49, be and lis children we're invited TO
France by Louis Napoleon, the poor wife
was left behind and ended her unhappy
life on a small place nesr jacksonville,
Fla, friendess and alone.