The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-20
LAsCELLEs IN OLD MEXICO.
Tie Adventures Has Found His Way
Into Dinz's Land.
City of Mexico Letter in Atlanta (Ga)

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city of Mexico Letter in Atlanta (Ga.)
Constitution.
Among the notable visitors in this city
&c the present time is the notorious Lord
/ Beresford, otherwise Sidney Lascelles. who
mas but recently been pardoned out of the
Georgia penitentiary by Gov. Atkinson of
that state. A
About five weeks ago Mr.. and Mrs Las
eelles, registering as from Monterey made
their appearance here and secured quiet
apartments with an American family
who had preceded them. 1t was not until
the lady fell in a swoon while reading an
american newspaper that the identity OF
the couple became known to their hosts
me paper announced the death, in a little
town in Georgia, of Mr.. Alexander Pelky,
the !ady's father Upon her recovery she
toad the story of her life. She was the
petted and only child of a wealthy citizen
OF RhoCe Island who had gone to Georgia
10 invest in some rising real estate There
she met Lascelles, winning and polished
and though she knew he had been in the
penitenuary for high-rolling, she looked
upon the pardon which the governor had
given him as a complete vindication. and
despite parental objections married the
gay lord since which time she had not
seen her father. Now that he was dead.
she became the sole heress to his posses.
sons
In the meantime Lascelles had not been
idle in the city He had made the acquaint-
ance of those In charge of federal district
affairs, and was so full of schemes of mum
iclpal improvement that he began to catch
the official car He had extensive bundles
of letters from dealers all over the United
states showing that he had been engaged
in extensive works which claimed their at
tention. 1t is true that these letters all re-
terred to pending negotiations, and not TO
completed work, but they were sufficient
to prove that he was man of affairs. The
news of his father-in-laws death came in
good time, for it afforded Lascelles an op-
portunity to talk of landed possessions in
various states of the American union He
employed an English barrister to open ne
gotiations with the representativ es of the
estate in Fitzgerald, Ga, and based upon
this coming wealth, Lascelles has been
heartily welcomed into local official cir
cles.
There was one notable feature about
Lascelles's presence, and that is. while he
made himself at home at the British con-
sulate, and affected great fondness for the
French. he avoided the headquarters of
United States Minister Powell Clayton, and
the American colony in general.
1t was only within the past week that
Lasceles' record has leaked out, due to a
chance meeting with an Alabama gentle
man. who had known him in Fitzgerald
Il have no disposition to deny my identi-
ty," said Lascelles, but 1 would have pre-
ferred quiet until my wife's mourning for
her fathers sad death was over"
With admirable sangfroid LasceIles has
met the whispers which have reached The
ears of his Mexican friends He explains
that he is man of large business affairs
that in the course of immense transac-
tons he has had reverses; that full settle
ment will set him straight again, and that
he will return to the United States and nut
his slanderers into something worse than
Belem. All this is told with so much self
possession and plausibility that it is be-
leved, and the former Lord Beresford is
| living in clover.
Mrs Lascelles has the utmost faith in
her husband and fully believes that he will
come out on top.