, 1889-01-10
A RUSSIAN PRINCE.
what Is Said AbOu, isis uighness's Ca
reer In Europe.

what Is Said About i'is uighnesss Ca
reer In Europe.
Prince George EristoH dc Goure Of Rus
| sia, who arrived here from Havre sOtue
weeks ago, seems to have been receiving q
considerable amount Ut social attention,
boz h In this city and ut Lenox His title
and rank appear to be un'mpoachable.
| Town Topics OF io.da, - date will contain
| the following extracts from the L)' don
| Timds, which niay possibly prove OF inter-
est to the persons with whom the prince
has become acquainted In this country:
'In the Berlin dispatch to the Loudon
Times OF November 10, 1881, it 10 stated {:
| "A singular criminal case has just been
tried here (Bsrliu). Some time ago Prince
George Eristoh, Russian, called on firm
of jewellers here, and under false preten WA
induced them u send to his hotel articles
to tue value OF 90OO marks for which he
persuaded the porter OF the hotel NJ which
he WAS stopping to advance In payment
the sum Of 3OUO marks. Thus possessed Of
the jswelry. the prince sold part OF 1. and
was about to start from the Eastern rail-
way terminous tor St Petersburg when he
was arrested ON suspicion at the instance
for the defense intimated that tho hotel
porter had been refunded the money which
he had advanced, aud that the jewelry had
been restured to the rightnl own
er, and begging, at the. same time,
the court to regard these nm
prince, 80 he declared. did not intend to
commit u fraud. The judges, however,
were other wise minded, and sentenced his
highuess TO two years Imprisonment with
hard labor, and to the loss OF his civil
rights during the same period Consider
Ing tue foregoing, It Is, to say the very
least, strange that Count Arco, the Ger.
nian minister to this county, should have
so far forgotten what was due to his station
and his office Us to give u dinner at Leuox
last fall In honor of his ielon prince
tine.expired convict OF Russian state
prison.
'Unfortunately the punishment under.
gone In Germany does not appear to have
exercised any salutary effect on Prince
EristOfiis conduct. For, few years
later, his name again hgures In the
London Times in connection with Grim
inal charge. In the Times Of the 10th OF
March, 1896, II is stated that on the pre-
vious day, before Sir james Ingham. at the
Row street police court, Prince George
Eristoff de Gonrie OF st. Petersburg was
charged on an extraordin mary warrant with
obtaining money under false pretenses
within the jurisdiction OF the French re-
public He was remanded to prism pend
ing the production OF the necessary papers
in support Of the charge. A week later,
which the prince spent in the house OF de.
tention at Claekenwell, he was again
brought up before Sir James Ingham. at
Bo W street police court, the necessary ex
papers having meanwhile arrived
from Paris. Mr.. Albert, the official
interpreter Of the court, translated
the evidence, which showed that
the prince had engaged a valet
the medium of AN advertisement, |
and had afterwards borrowed 700 francs
from him. 1t was further shown that the
prince had fraudulently represented that q |
large sum was being transmitted to him by |
a relative, and had thereby induced an |
other person to advance him 1900 francs, |
after whioh he left Paris. He wad arrested |
Ia London, at the request of the French |
police, by Police Inspectors Jarvis and |
Moser Che latter of whom is well-known |
In New York in condection with the Par. |
nell case against the Tinos). Sir James |
Ingham, after hearing the evidence, decld- |
ed on holding the prisoner in accordance
with the demnnd contained in the extra.
dition warrant, and committed him to take
his trial in France. l fancy that continent |
upon record OF this nature would be
quite superfiuous."