The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-05-06
ROCCO DIAyOvITCH,s STORIES.
Says He IL an Austrian Count and Has
Footed 1t All Over the World.

Says He Is an Austrian Count and Has
Footed 1t All Over the World.
new BRUNSWICK. N. j.. May 5.-The routine
OF life at the county jail was relieved to-day by
a visit from a man who says he is Count Rocco
Dianovitch OF Austria. He is very democratic
in appearance and tastes. He walked here from
Railway yesterday afternoon and visited
County Clerk John H. Conger. As he has been
walking around the world for the last thirty
four years the Count has developed an antipa-
thy to any means OF locomotion not purely his
own. He said that the only country which he
hadn't visited was Canada, and he is on his
way there now. In each place he makes it .
point to visit the jails. where he tells the pr!s-
oners OF his experiences and Of the penal insti-
tutions Of other countries. He says he has
met half the crowned heads Of Europe and a
great many American notabilities.
He said he began his travels in 1863 when
but a boy Of IA years. having fed from his
nome in Austria. He says his native place
was Lassa. Since that time. he said. he had
travelled $4,000 miles on foot. living on an in
come Of So. 400 a year. which he receives from
estates in his native land. 1t would he hard to
find a spot on the map whore the Count ad-
mits he has not been. He has worked. he said.
in tho treadmills of England. served in the
chain gangs OF Peru. dug in the mines of South
Africa. and ploughed the farms Of Australia,
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Chinese slave alive. and killed n highwayman
upon whose head the authorities had placed a
reward Of $4,000, which the Count receivsl.
He Is a student Of criminology ana penology.
and upon completing his tour of Canada hs
will write a book on his travels. in which con-
siderable attention will be raid to the treat
mcnt of prisoners in the Jails and %neni,en-
tiaries throughout the world In every coun-
try he has served a term in Jail in order to
learn how its inmates are treated. II" makes
it his business to get arrested at least once In
every country. In San Francisco he tied up a
Celestial by the queue and kept HIM suspended
for TWENTY-FIVE minutes. For this offence he
was put In Jail. lie has spent two and one
half years in Jail out Of tn" thirty-four he has
travelled.
He says that America treats her criminals
the best and England the worst. Australia has
the foulest prisons on earth. the largest crim.
inal classes. and the seversSt punishments.
The punishments OF the Chinese. Turks and
Russians do not equal the fiogging Of criminals
by the British in Australia.
In Australia the Count hanged himself with
his SuSpenderS. he says. and was incarCeratci
among the madmen for three weeks. While
there he saw the guards beat a patient TO
death.
He says he speaks eight languages. In 1874
he acted rs an Interpreter for seven months in
the ten years war In Cuba on board the United
states warShip Congress under Admiral Samp-
son. then a Lieutenant. The Count said that
his next visit would he TO Trcnlpn. where he
hoped to meet Gov. Voorhees,. Ne eXpects TO
return 70. his home in Austria next year.
This will be his first visit to his native land
since 1853.