The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-17
INTERESTING
SHE SAYS SIZE is PRINCESS EDITHA
LOLITA.

bar Was Convicted of Swindling
leans for the Past Year or So as
Mrs. HOward-she Was Married
Sunday Night TO a Real Estate
Agent From Chicago.
From the New orleans Times Democrat.
Henry Lanauze whistled a long, thin
whistle and uttered a muttered" Well III
be dorg gorned" as he finished entering
upon the marriage record yesterday the
certificate of Rev. A. II. Becker that he
had on Sunday night married in this city
Frank Dutton Jackson, 80 years of age,
native of Fond du Lac, Wis, and Prln-
cess Editha Lolita, Countess Landsfeldt
and Baroness Rosenthal, aged "A years, a
native of Florence, Italy, and daughter of
Ludwig l. King of Bavaria, and Lola Mon
tez, Countess Landsfeldt and Baroness
Rosenthal. The certificate further set
forth that Jackson was the son Of Robert
Ford Jackson and Hattie L. Dutton, and
that his bride was the widow of w. j.
MCGOWAN.
1t is also a fact, though the certificate
did not set 1t forth. that she is the III
vorced wife Of Gen. Joseph Diss Debar
and the widow of Paul Noel Messant, who
was her first husband, and that she Is one
of the most notorious women In this coua-
try.
Lola Montez, daughter of a French
Creole, and a Scotch-Irish woman, was
the first woman to wear tights upon the
American stage, and later captivated Lud-
wig 1 of Bavaria who created her Bar
oness Rosenthal and Countess Landsfeldt.
and whose infatuation for the actress and
danseuse caused his fall and ended in his
abdicatios- of his throne Lola Montez
was well known in this city, where she
played "Mazeppa" in the old St. Charles
theater.
Mrs James D. jackson, the bride, as
serts that she is the child of Lola Montez
end Ludwig, born after the Bayarian
Kings abdication. She was born in
Florence, she says, owing to her mother
having been banished from Bavaria
because of her intimacy with Ludwig,
and Leo TX, the Pope stood at her chris
| tening as her godfather. - ...s :. .--..
| Mrs Jackson says that she was educat-
ed abroad as befitted Princess, and
whether one believes her or the police,
who say she is an adventures pure and
| simple, with an invented lineage, 1t is evil
| dent that she is a woman of education
and her manners those of refinement. Al
| though very fat, she is still extremely
handsome, little short of beautiful, and Is
extremely patrician in her appearance,
| with brilliant eyes and a beautiful com
plexion. Democratic in her tastes, she
| tells her story thus:
| Coming to this country when II years
old, she was married in New York to Paul
| Noel Messant the marriage, according to
her religion, being a celibate union. Mes
SAINT died in 1872, and in the intervening
seven years she lived in the East perfect
ing herself in the study Of occult science,
and in 1879 was married to Gen. Diss Be
bar. '-
This marriage was not celibate. Three
children are living, whose names Mrs.
jackson gives as Count Adolph, a student
at Heidelberg, and Countess Augusta aad
Nile. Maud, at school in Paris.
| While the wife of Gen. Diss Debar and
living in New York, she made the ac-
quaintance of Luther R. Marsh, the for
mer partner of Daniel Webster and a
man of great wealth, whose interest she
aroused in occult science. And here the
story changes.
Marsh believed absolutely in Nine. Diss
Debar's occult powers, so much so that
he paid large sums of money for pictures
| NnlC0 SHe bdlQ were spirit manifestations.
but which the New York police and Judge
Marsh's friends declared to be ordinary
chronlos of a poor quality. Marsh parted
with many thousands of dollars. Spiritual
| lists declared that Nine. Diss Debar was
a wonderful spiritualist, the jury declared
her a fraud and a swindler, when Marsh's
relatives put her into court and she was
sentenced to penal servitude, and Gen.
Diss Debar got a divorce and took his
| children to Europe.
Having served her term of lmprison-
ment, Name. Diss Debsr went 10 Chicago.
where she met and married the late w.
j. MCGOWAN, millionaire who gave her
| his name, and who died after a few years
of celibate matrimony, Diss Debar being
the only exception to this rule in her
marriage record. OF course, the Widow
MCGOWAN claimed McGowan's property.
but so did others, and the whole property
became tied up in litigation, during which
Mrs. MCGOWAN went to Texas to look at
! some of the lands of her late husband.
stopping here on her way home as the
guest Of Mr.. James Massie In this city
| she assumed the name Of Howard which
! she says belonged to the family of which
Lola Montez was a member, and attracted
so much attention as a medium, although
she accepted no money, that the police
made inquiries and established her fien-
| ivy 40 NiS WOhdil III the AdHDuS Marsh
| Diss Debar case.
A few months since Mrs. Howard went
to Chicago and went into her lawyers Of
! fee. It Glanced that the firm she retained
was the firm retained as advisers 81
| Frank ID. Jackson, who had settled In
Chicago in 1893 as a bookkeeper, and VINO
later went into the real estate business
for himself. He is the son OF the suner-
intendent Of the vast McNeer estates in
| California and elsewhere on the paoiac
coast and was educated a PRESBYTERIAN
coMege, later studying for the Conerega-
! tionalist ministry but abandoning ina,
faith because he became a Unitarian. or a
holder Of the doctrine that nature fur
nlshes, ready for eating, al the food nee5-
% by man and beast and that il Is A ,ylo-
lation Of che law ana the gospel to eat
anything which requires cooking.
Mrs. Howard of New Orleans and Mr.
Jackson Of Chicago thus met by chance
or by divine direction, according as one
believes with them or not and ascer-
] hot an