Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-15
In THE TOLLS AGAIN.
Count di Montercole Gets Ont o Fresh
Batch Of Circulars
AND HEROICALLY SCATTERS THEM
All He Wants This Time Is to Return to
Single B~lessedness.
HI LANGUISHEs IN A PRISON CELL

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14-For the
third time during his brief but notorious
career Count di Montereole has been ar
rested for distributing scurrilous circulars
concerning his wife. who was Miss Virginia
Knox, of Pittsburg, and be now lies in a
cell in the City Hall 10 await further pun
ishment for his ~offense.
The Count was first sentenced to a fine of
$50, which he could not pay. He was then
held in $500, and on repeating the offense
by distributing circulars of a viler char
acter, he was, on May 81 last, sentenced to
imprisonment for six months. He
emerged from Moyamensing on November
81 in his usual penniless condition, and took
refuge in an obscure lodging at 757 South
Eighth street and lived upon his charitable
compatriots. He made advances through his
lawyer, Mr.. Keely, to his wife's family and
they advised him to 90 to Italy. He refused
unless his wife gave him a divorce, which
he said he could not get because of his pen
niless condition.
His wife took no further notice of him,
and, tired of inactivity, the adventurous
Italian began his old tricks. He composed
another circular and he got a printer to
strike off 700 for 81 60. The document was
as follows:
He Tired of Inactivity.
AMERICAN GENTLEMEN-I am distributing
athird circular to inform all the honest people
OF my sad position caused by Miss Virginia
Knox tonce my wife, Remember that last
near ! was asa committed to prison for ssyen
to the public second circular. 1,
being ignorant of the American law, got
deceived by a lawyer who advised
me to answer guilty at the Interrogation. Then
heard with great surprise that / would be
condemned without the appearance OF the
grand Jury. which I desired to have as my
judge, SO as to give light to the true situation
have suffered persecution, been surrounded
by detectives and treated in the most barbar-
GUS manner.
He Pleads for Divorce.
As Ihave served my unjust punishment, 1
again ask Virginia Knox to give me the liberty
which she took away from me. But she re-
fused to be divorced from a man that 26 months
has accused of being brutal and unjust.
From insufHciency of money 1 cannot
show my rights. Finally I notified
the divorce, allowing her to accuse me of such
acts as never took place. Her desire is to COM
pei me to return TO Europe and to deprive me
Of any kind of occupations; to put me in such
COudlblOn ~ w II "a ms 6hb -
have very much to say but-fnish for this time.
Inform Miss Knox that may die, but will not
remain her husband. You, Virginia Knox,
take OF the title of Countess. You place is
the cafe chantant.s
CoNTE DI MoNTERooLE.
He Acts Like q Martyr.
Armed with these the Count to-day went
around the Continental, the Girard and
Green's, and he freely CAV away his ex-
traordinary composition. At last he was
espied by Reserve Officer Delhauer, at $50
p. NJ. who recognized him and at once ar
rested him. In his cell in the city hall to-
night the Count said to q reporter:
81 am glad; I am happy. The Knox
family will now get me a divorce. I hate
that woman. She loves me still and will
not divorce me. Now sne will have to
come to court again, and I will expose her;
She is a bad, wicked woman. I make my
living by acting as waiter, and I want to go
back to Italy q free man."
The Count would say no more and turned
down on the benchto sleep with the exulta-
ton of a Christian martyr.