The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-08
SWINDLERS IN HIGH LIFE.
With Claims Of Lineage to EntTap
The Tuit Hunters.

Lord and Play the Prince for His
J Acquaintancs-The Gay Prince Of
1 Looz-oorswarem.
From the New York Sun.
London, March %. The race Of notori-
Gus, almost illustrious and historical, ad-
| yenturers, swindlers, and charlatans is
not, and never will be extinct. The IN
1 scrupulous fnancier like Law, the mys-
FERROUS personality like the Chevalier
! DION, the seer and hypnotizer like Cagli-
ostro, have engeudered a numerous pos
terity. But however plausible, there has
laid ever on them the vague stigma of
suspicion, the shadow OF an obscure past,
Of a precarious present. it remained for
the latter end of the nineteenth century
to produce a man who. belonging to one
Of the most ancient families of Europe,
! bearing name that makes him the peer
of princes, has yet been convicted and ex-
| posed as the fallen creature the French
call an escroc and the English a swindler
! The Prince of Iooz-Corswarem is a
member OF Flemish family, whose origin
authenticity dates from the year 1880
which received the dusedom in 1874, and
! whose chief became prince of Rheina-
/ Waldeck, with the title of Serene High
ness in 1893
This adventurer of high lineage made
| many dupes IN Paris. Belgium, Monte
| Carlo and Nice. mulcting his victims of
/ over half million of francs in very
| short tune. Strangely enough they were
| not all foreigners, battered in their snob-
| Dish vanity by association with a man
| of title and ready to oblige him with
! large sums; but even in Brussels, where
| the Looz-Corswarems reside, where they
| possess hereditary property and where it
| was easy to make inquiries, they at
! last discovered that this particular men,
| Der Of the family was black sheep, but
! several simple bourgeois of the city had
| advanced him money on being told by
| him that he was about to marry the
wealthy Princess Demidoff. He not only
/ promised them large profits on the COM
| pietlon of his marriage but assured them
! that they would be invited to the cere-
mony and subsequently to his intimacy.
Some years back the prince lived mos-
| tentatiOuslY, and even shabbily in a
! small street branching from the Rue du
/ Quatre Septembre in Paris and endeav-
| ored in vain, in spite Of his assurance and
! audaciCy, to raise the slightest loan; the
! Jews fought shy on information gained of
! former shady and unremunerative tran
/ sactions. His untrustwOrthiness had be-
| come recognized fact in all the capitals
: VI l4uLODG, anu UC WISELY IGJlrGu INTO
! obscurity till his escapades were forgot
/ ten. AT a propitious moment, quite
! Lately, he emerged from his retirement,
| publicly announced his engagement to a
woman of wealth and position, and in
! CURED liabilities which he was completely
| incapable of meeting 1t is rumored, if
! not positively known, that an English
lady residing in London is among his
/ chiet creditors, having advanced him
money ami valuables TO a large amo mt
Before Prince de LOOz another ad-
! veuturer duped society with considerable
! success. After the Franco German war
/ man suddenly made his az jearance in
/ Paris calling himself Prince ScanderBeg
! declaring that he had come to establish
his claim to the throne of Albania, with
the addition of Mesopotamia and other
| provinces 1t was no Slight presumption
/ or easy task to prove descent from Scan
deIbeG, for the Christian hero lived at
| the time of the capture of Constantinople
! by the Turks and died in 1857 AT LISA
while negotiating an alliance with the
! Venetians against the Turks
The new Partisan Scanderberg, with
| out hesitation or embarrassment, pro-
| duced documents which he showed to
| whoever was anxious to inspect them, with
| deeds and parchments which 1t was i'm
| possible to decipher or authenticate, but
which were extremely impressive in their
/ appearance of antiquity, However, he
! neglected TO assume the patrouymic of
| his supposed ancestors and to style him
self George Castriot. The romance of his
story, his picturesque exterior, the secret
| hope of benehting eventually by his sue
cess, allurcd number of people, some be-
longing to the highest classes of society.
/ The future ruler OF Albania and Mesopo-
/ tamia was lavish of his favors, nomi-
mated future ministers and chamberlains,
/ and n { pIF a nd ,.;1
! bons in exchange for solid financial sup
| port But one day the police thought fit
| to interfere, and without waiting to face
/ official investi LEGATIONS the SOVEREIGN in
/ partibus promptly and unheroically van
| lshed, forgetting to pay his debts.
| Inferior in ability and less au1acious in
/ their conceptions were Nine. Apraruti.
/ whose royal robes were sold the other
/ day at public auction; the notorious
/ Mayrena, styling himself King of Sedang;
/ Orelie l. King Of AraUcania; Jules eros,
/ President of Counani, and a few others
I selecting the same lines
The adveuturer, who played his part
with the greatest perfection, WAS an
| es aPed convict. who, under the first
empire, contriyed to pass into Spain,
where he remained some time in conceal
ment. Presently he ingratiated himself
with refugee nobicmau, became his con
fdeutial servant. ana acquired a thorough
/ knowledge of all the details of his past
life. Served by certain pbysila rescm-
bance to his master, he learned every
trick OF manner a1d speech and, when
, quite perfect, murdered his benefactor,
avoided arrest, and returned to France
! possessed of the papers, and assumed the
name of his victim. at the fall Of the
empire he made capital of his fidelity
to the legitimate monarchy, obtained
a high command in the Gardes du Corps,
and became friend of the Due de Berry.
till one day, having reached the zenith of
his popularity and feeling assured against
detection, he accidentally brushed up
an old fellOw-Conyict near the Louvre.
/ The man recognized him and addressed
him by his real name. The adventurer,
unabashed. raised his whip upon the ex-
convict to chastise him for his insolence.
/ The man who might have been bribed to
keep silence, was so inceused at this
treatment that he forthwith denounced
his old companion Of infamy and accused
him of being a Galerien, a thief and a
murderer. AS as great number of honor
able persons would have been compro-
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