Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-11-25
Count nftaiemica Again.


membered started Cedar Point as sum
iner resort, and made it Que of the mos :
popular places ON the Potomac while be
was ia complete control, is still full OF
schemes and plans. His latest scheme,
and the one that has been occ lpying the
greater portion Of his time for several
years past, is. the building Of railroads
IN China, and, with the plauslblllty
characteristic Of the man, he has had no
difficulty in getting capitalists 10 Pus uP
money III large sums iof the ppri use, as
alleged, to induce the Chinese govern
mcnt to grant the concession 10 hin IS
tue mead Of comb nation Of American
ca.itaiists. Ore Of these gentlemen,
Attorney Tom 5. Of Brook'yli, N Y,
who evidently hal more inuneS t1an
Dra. Is. recently charged theoCount with
ooiaiutDg IRON MN 1jJ,ddU daring a
period oi sso yeats oIt lac laise pretense
Of usjug he same 10 further tue Caiuese
raiiroal concession seheme he spe
ciic charge being that hitkiewiez IN
dalod ZONES u tlt bill Of sale on his
siacnce for al -1l which We turned
over 10 the Court for turs ering tue
scheme. The Count, game aud auda-
cious AZ ever. lie rang that Tnnos Was
trying to nave him arrested On tie
cha, -, LETT ms home IN Washington.
|p G aud with MS attorney appeared IN
New ark before Justice uiAdy III the
roDrS Police Court. and. after nearing
:estlaony, the Justice decided that thu
Count could not b. held ami 'lisluiss,al
'''-srss'ss. '''s..--s..ilasrs nr synopsis q the
evidence VIII prove Interesting
to tao Cunts formsr ac-
4uain'aue. in tbs county:
feme4 % ~ iir-t @i'mcss placeu
IN he silal. III described he l,ersaa
sive Corlts c,mill 10 hin anq ar1ine
Kim to rlise i,iitc more monay co send
10 81 lard .Jone-. in CAIN :, ar further
Ing the plan OF gaining concessions iroa,
'gh'nl, ,n,i seeliu- The arc ptauce Of
ilenrY w Biair. Is Gifted States Min
lister 10 Tat coulfr, fne Count IL,
sli1, gave hnn 70 uracrstai. that t'nl
ohepari was oacssos the scheme an..
would be III We lie s0rt uI way, seeu
ri y for the lo,N i-4.1s he received a
irl'er fran the Count, So ~ LAT tie
n.ouey souid Le r.plli.
y aan., " Z Burr, Who claims
that Mitkiewicz got $40. 900 out Of him
was the next witness. He testified to
siSiug $3.50 Of tue S1.750 to Count
VI klewicz aud sending the remslnder
to jones in China, Burr added that De
Mitkiewicz represented to him and Tones
that Col. Shepard had promised to reiM-
bnrse all those that advanced money for
expenses spent 10 procuring the desired
concessions from China.
Col Shepard himself took the stand.
He sail that he met Mltkiewicz about
three years ago. The Count soon after
unfolie his plans for building railroads
~ China. The Count said that be had
lived in China. and knew that the Chi
nese government was favorable to havin1
American capital build railroad lines
there, and that if little money was
spent iudiciously the necessary conces-
sions could be obtained from Viceroy
Chang. The Count asked the Colonel ii
be would sdvance money toward procur-
ing the concessions, but the Colonel de-
clned Then the Count wanted the
Lolonelto pay half expenses toward send
ing some one to China to negotiate with
the viceroy, but again the Colonel said
mo"
Finally the Colonel did agree that in
case De Milk ewicz secured con SESSIONS
from the Chinese, and brought him saf-
ficient proof of the facts, be would enter
into the scheme. and pay all the cxpens-
es 10 the matter that had been incurred.
The Colonel said that be believed that
the Counts plan was plausible, because
he learned from two sources that the
Chinese rather leaned toward such q
scheme. Jesse Grant had told him thai
on tour around the world with his ia
Their til 1t he had learned this attitude OF
the Chinese, and later a Chinese gentle
man. whom he knew as Mr. do" had
told him the same thug.
When the Colonel left the stand law
yer Brooke moved that the complaint be
dismissed Justice Grady discharged
the Count, saying that the prosecution
had not made out case against him.
This decision of the justice affected the
Count like magic. lie jumped up aud
seized the hands of bis attorney, and,
even in the exuberance ofhis joy. grasp
ed the hanl Of Colonel Shepard"