The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-15
LESLlE-DE LEUVILLE.
The Widow Will Not Marry the
Gay Marquis.
HE CARRIED HER PET POODLE
In New YOrk-His Attempt to Force Her to.
Wed Him in London Prefers
aJOurualist.

LONDON. July 49, By cable to the N. Y.
World. just as the City of Rome was
pulling up anchor to leave Liverpool for
New York yesterday, Mrs. Frank Leslie
sent ashore the following dispatch to the
Worlds London correspondent, In reply to
message wired to her:
81 am not engaged, but am starting for
home to attend to my work and to prepare
fer my lecture season.
De Lueville's attempt this time to force
Mrs Leslie into marrying him was actually
sensational. The new superintendent of
the registrar of st. Georges of Hanover
square, was ready with the license and
waiting to marry them. Yesterday morn
ing at 10 o'clock when De Lueville went to
Mrs. Leslie's apartments at the Burlington
hotel, 10 his chagrin the bogus marquis
found that Mrs. Leslie's trunks were on
the hotel omnibus and lust starting for
America. He wanted to get into the omni-
bus with her, but she would not let him, so
he followed her in hanson to Euston sta
tlOn and went on the same train TO Liver
pool.
Every time Mrs. Leslie comes to London
De Leuvllle circulates the report that she
has come across the water especially to
marry him. When she arrived a few
Leslie promptly denied it, but this time
De Leuville went a step further than
usual by applying for a marriage licence,
sending preliminary notice to the London
papers yesterday. Thursday afternoon the
registrar of marriages for the district in
which De Leuville lives went TO the house
of the marquis by special appointment and
received the notice now recorded in his
vestry book. De Leuville asked the regis
trar if he would be on hand to perform the
ceremony yesterday morning, as he in
tended to start with his wife for the CONT
nent by the IL o'clock mail train. Though
it was before the usual hour the superin-
tendent promised he would be there and
kept his word.
De Leuville has shown considerable
nervousness and excitability for the past
ten days; he has seldom been home except
late at night to sleep. Mrs. Leslie did not
know then that he had procured a license,
giving publicity to it and announced the
marriage through the newspapers when
she babe De Leuville good bye at the door
step of the MOTEL.
All this has much astonished Mrs. Lei
lies friends here. Doors will be open to
her now as an energetic American woman,
which would be forever closed to her as
the wife of such notorious adventurer as
De Leuville. His shady record is too well
known TO require repetition, but the use of
the name OLIVER in the license requires an
explanation.
De Eeuville is the son of an obscure artist
named OLIVER who lived near scarborough.
He saw in French newspaper one day that
the race of the aristOcratic Oliver family in
France was extinct and that the title of
MARQUIS de Leuville would lapse. He
promptly claimed TO be a lineal descendant
of the oliver family, appropriated the title
and came to London to trade on it, but his
name is found neither in Burke's peerage
nor in the published lists of the noblesse Of
France.
For years De Leuyille's career in London
has been full of discreditable adventures
with women who became infatuated with
him. His first escapade was with daugh-
ter of Nine. Tussaud, of museum fame,
whom he married, and she is now living in
respectable circumstances in Madrid. Since
his return home from New York the mar
quis has been conspicuous for his open affil-
iations with the wealthy widow of a car
riage maker. His persistent perse-
cution of Mrs. Leslie this sea-
son has been more marked than ever
A short time ago he gave a reception at his
apartment and was in straits how to
celebrated art fabric dealer, for specimens
of decorations which he said he wanted to
purchase. These he spread over his apart
ments in fine array. Just as the guests had
assembled Liberty's man came along with
an order to take the goods away unless s'the
marquis purchased go worth" The baftied
marquis purchased for cash and the
goods were allowed to remain over night.
| The marquis had previously worked this
game with success, but Liberty was too
much for him a second time.