The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-23
HE CARRIES THE BUN
DR.. Emil Richter Turns Up as Count
de ToulouSe-Lautrec.
A NOTORIOUS ADVENTURES
There Was a Time When He At
tempted to Usurp the Throne of
Bulgaria - He Unfolds the
Story of His Career.

were taken in by DR.. Emil Richter,
alias Jean c. Heinesinger, alias DR.. J..
NJ. Hoenoch, will doubtless feel highly
honored when they learn that they had
been favored with the acquaintance OF
q world famed adventurer and swind-
ler-a man who at one time carried his
swindling schemes to such an extent as
to attempt to usurp the throne OF
kingdom. The clever individual, who
was going to organize a company in
Butte to buy up all the smelter tailings
and make millions out of 1t by extract
ing 9s per cent. of the minerals with
his new cyanide process, but left town
very suddenly after he had secured the
promise of $4,000. turned up In 81.
Louis a few days ago, where his iden-
tity was fully established.
A few days after he left Butte, IL viii
be remembered, he struck Seattle under
the name OF DR. l.. NJ. Hoenoch, and
Immediately upon his arrival there gave
the papers a vivid story about a trans
Siberian railroad of which he was chief
engineer but his pretensions didn't last
over night, and he suddenly left for
San Francisco, where he registered at
the Palace as Count de Tolence Laut-
rec, but remained only two or three
days and then left for st. Louis, where
he turned up last Sunday. According
to the st. Louis papers he met. on the
train from San Francisco, Il. A. AL
drich, a prominent business man of that
city, and to him unfOided his great
trans Siberian railway project, of
which, he said, he was the contractor.
He was in America he said, for the
purpose of purchasing rolling stock and
equipments for the great road, and to
form a syndicate for the completion of
the line. The Butte acquaintance OF
the gentleman can understand how
dead easy n was for him to convince
Mr.. Aldrich of the honesty of his pur-
pose, and the entire feasibility of his
schemes. He stopped at the best hotel
and lost no time in having himself in
troduced to several railway contract
ors and manufacturers OF railway
construction machinery, and the or
ganisation of the syndicate was well
under way by the next morning, when
the papers came out and said the
Count" was not what he had repre-
scented himself to be. They said he was
an adventurer with an oily tongue,
which agrees well with the description
Adolph Pincus gave Of him, that he
was las smooth as cream that cost 81
a quart" The st. Louis papers further
said that he was not a count at all and
did not belong to the Russian nobility;
that he was a schemer who had gotten
money from many for various enter
prises that failed to pan out. All this
was said of him and a great deal more
One paper published a telegram from
San Francisco In which the question
of the Russians identity with Savin.
the world-famed adventurer and swim
dler, who was at one time a pretender
10 the Bulgarian throne" was raised
"Savin committed many offenses
against the laws of France, Germany,
Austria, Belgium, Russia and other
countries, said the telegram. HE
swtndled many people, doing II In so
accomplished a way that he was spoken
OF as second Napoleon. His master
stroke was I'm 1887. when Bulgaria was
at war with Servia. Then he appeared
as claimant to the Bulgarian throne.
Many people believed i'm him and his
claim, and advanced him large amounts
of money. Finally for one of numer-
GUS offenses, he was extradited to Rus
STA, and on conviction was sentenced
10 term OF years In one of the colo
MES. This term has recently expired"
The dispatch contains a statement
from San Francisco's chief of detec-
tives, In which the Russian visitor was
called a bogus count" The chief
said he successfully impersonated a
French count in all the large European
ciues some 10 years ago, and was par
ucularly successful i'm swindling banks.
Another dispatch from San Francisco
had the following about the count:
me Count de Toulouse Lautrec
spent several days in this city and left
suddenly last Tuesday for st. Louis
He claimed while here to be a con-
tractor Tor the Siberian railroad. and he
certainly knew all about Siberia. He
also claimed to have a brother in the
Bank of France. and he showed an
autograph letter from Maenin. the al
rector of the bank. When he FIRST came
mere he put up at the Palace hotel. but
had no luggage except two satchels. He
said his other baggage was held AT
Seattle. As he spoke no English he
tlred OF the Palace. and went TO live at
the Gailhard house, a French hotel
There ne became acquainted with a
hair-dresser named Gillard, who Of
fered TO show him the sights They saw
the town and then visited a mutual
friend, bank clerk named Guyot. who
lives at Sausalto. There they nIaved
baccarat, and the count won 81 90 off
Gillard. all the money the poor fellow
han. The count suggested that Guyot.
being a bank clerk, should keen 10 600
or 10000 francs with him. so that no
could play like a gentleman. but the
clerk declared he preferred TO leave his
money In the bank vaults. The count
then returned to the city, and the next
day left with the two gripsacks He
paid his bills, giving checks which he
signed DE SAVINGS" This is sunnosed
10 be his real name The opinion of
those who met the count was that ne
had Travelled in Siberia. but that he was
not a contractor nor a nobleman."
After listening for some time 10 an
account. Of the gentleman's experience
in railway building In Siberia a
Globe Democrat reporter asked him in
he had ever been in trouble in Russia
Why do you ask" he inquired.
Il have read that you were"
Where did you read it?"
In a newspaper"
I'm ST. LOUISE"
Yes"
Have you copy Of the paper?"
II have"
Let me see g. please
The paper was fished out of an inside
pocket and the article pointed out. The
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