The San Francisco call., 1896-01-16

plainable possibly on the ground that when
convict is discharged he is usually given
little place, but as a rule it is about an
acre in size. The Count has probably got
some one to say his estate returns an
income estimated at $4,000 year. Ii any
one here should dispute it he could say,
Well, how are you going to prove it is not
soF And how could you, unless you went
over to Tomsk?
scheme he could draw $500 a month, any
way, and be that much ahead as long as it
lasted. When people went oyer from here
and protested that they had dropped
money Galetski could say he was sorry
and disappointed himself, but that De
Savin did it. Maybe De Savin father was
once Governor OF Kalouga. He came
from good family, and it is possible. 1t
is barely possible, too, that De Savin may
have some sort of a place there The
thing all around has very suspicious
look, however"
In all respects Agent Grunwaldt agreed
with the Russian Consul, General Artsimo-
witch, whose story has been given He
says Savin was known as Nicolas de Savin
in Russia.
Seattle has some confidence in the al
legged Count, it appears, though dispatch
from there last night emphatically denied
that anybody there had gone into any
syndicate with him. He conferred with
t4i;s Earls d Donohoe, prominent railroad
tractors on the Great Northern, all of
Seattle; also with Henry Heweu Jr and
9. w. Griggs, railroad builders of Tacoma,
but they did not, as is stated, entertain
his schemes. However, in some wav.
though short of funds at first, he sue
ceeded in getting 5000 rubles, which was
paid him through the National Bank of
Com m From thie ha tob
adds, he lived at a pretty rapid pace.
At the Gailhard the Count appears to
have settled his bills. Fernand Gillard
who went about some with the Count, saws
the latter was not such a great gentleman
as he at first supposed him. He had no
letters OF introduction, but he had many
names and addresses of different people
and he refused, Gillard says, to call on the
French Consul.
Captain Lees had his eagle eye on Mich
olas de Savin, Count de Toulouse, for
some days previous TO that gentleman's 8
departure for the East. When asked his
opinion of the gay foreigner yesterday the
chief OF detectives said emphatically:
''He is nothing but a bogus count, The
account In to-day's CALL sums him UP ac-
curately. l received q letter several DAYS
ago from a noted Russian in this City Civ
ing his record beyond doubt, for the gem
tleman is thoroughly reliable and knows
about this Savin; that's his isname-Savin-
and his criminal record was famous in
Europe in the sos.
1.-THE bogus Count de Toulouse was one
of the most noted of Russian swindlers
He impersonated French Count ten
years ago or more in all the large Euro
pean cities successfully, and was particu-
larlv successful In swlndllng a lot of
banks. Although he was not Count
Savin came of great Russian family and
was highly educated and very plausible
man. They finally arrested him in Brus-
sells, if [ remember correctly, and extra
dited him to Russia, where he was tried
and sentenced to hard labor in Siberia for
a number OF years. During his swindling
career in Europe this Savin posed under a
number of names, one OF them being
Count de Toulouse"
Captain Lees stated that the gentleman
who had first given him information that
the Count de Toulouse, who recently ar
rived from Siberia, was the famous