The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-12-20
TILE LORD rs ON TOP AGAIN.
Great Adventurer Is Posing Before the
Mexicans Just Now

City Of Mexico. December 17.--(Special)- y
Among the notable visitors In this city ut
the present time is the notorious Lord
Boresfctd, otherwise Sidney Lascelles who
has but recently been pardDned cut of the
Georgia penitentiary by Governor Atkin-
son, of that state.
About five weeks ago Mr.. and Mrs. Las
celles, registering as from Monterey. made
their app eardnce here and secured quiet
apartments with an American family
who had preceded them. 1t WAS not until
the lady fell in q SWOOn while reading an
American newspaper that the identity Of
the couple became known to their hosts.
The paper announced the death. In a little
town in Georgia. of Mr. Alexander Pelky.
the ladys father. Upon her recovery she
told the story of her life. She was the
pettcd and only child of wealthy citizen
of Rhode Island, who had gone to Georgia
to invest in some rising real estate. There
she met LasceIles, winning and polished.
and though she knew HI had been i'll the
pelitentiary for high-roilinG, she looked
upon the pardon which the governor had
given him as complete Vindication, and
despite parental objections married the gay
lord, since which time she had not seen
her father. Now that he dead. she be-
came the sole heiress to his possessions.
Ii the meantime LascClieS had not
been idle in the city. He had made the
acquaintance of those in change of federal
district affairs and was so full Of schemes
Of municipal Improvement that lie began TO
catch the official ear 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 attention. 1t is true that these let
tiers all referred 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
Lasceles an opportunity to talk of landed
possessions in various states of the Amer
lean union. He employed an English bar
rister to open negotiations with the repre-
seutativcs of the estate in Fitzgerald Ga,
and based upon this coming wealth, Las
cellcs has been heartily welcomed into local
official circles.
There was one notable feature about Las
celles'S prcs1r &c, and that Is, while he made
himself at home at the British consulate,
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's record has le2ke| out. due 10 q.
chance meeting with an Alabama gentle
man, who had known him in Fitzgerald.
II have no disposition TO deny my identi~
ty" said Lasceles, but | would have pre-
ferred quiet until my wife's mourning for
her fathers sad death was over.
With admirable sangfroid, Lascellea
has met the whispers which have reached
the ears of his Mexican friends. He ex-
plains that he is a man of large business
affairs; that in the course of immense
transactions he has had reverses; that full
settlement will set him straight again, and
that he will return to the United states
and put his sanderers into something
worse than Beem. All this is told with SO
must self-p0sSessiOn and pl&usihitty that
it is believed, and the former Lord Beres-
ford IS living in clover
Mrs Iascellos has the utmost faith In
her husband and fully believes that he viii
come out on top.