The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-27

HIiiu from DoDlg ln1uFTOuSly aneCted by
her infatuation for him
There Is something distinctly uncanny
about this extraordinary union, which
caused no end Of talk at the time.
Old DR.. Simon Wolfe and Lady Geor-
gtana, his wife, had two sons. The elder
of these is in this country, and earns his
living as porter and messenger of a big
dry goods store at Tallahassee. The 9TH
er son IS Sir Henry Drummond Wolfe.
Grand Cross Of the Order Of the Bath. q
Prtvy Councillor of the Queen the polit-
ical mentor Of the late Lord Randolph
Churchill and Of First Lord Of the Treas
cry Alfred Balfour, in their younger days.
Today he Is British Ambassador at Mad
rid, and as such had charge of all the
interests of the United States in Spain
during the war, and until the re-establish-
ment of diplomatic relations between the
| governments of Don Alfonso and America
last spring. He is regarded as the clever
est diplomat in the service of Great Brit
ain, is universally respected alike by polit-
ical friends and foes, and there are few
who do not sympathize deeply with him
In connection with the troubles with
hich he has been overwhelmed by his
two children.
There are two of these children. One of
them is ex-Captain Cecil Drummond
Wolfe, who has been turned out Of the
British army
The other is that weI-born and extra
ordinary adventures, Mrs. Kingscote.
the ex-captain being apparently, like
Mrs. Kingscotes husband, Col.
kingscote, completely subjugated by her
mysterious will power and bIindly obed-
lent to all her behests. Mrs. Kingscote
is not unknown in the United States,
where she has frequently resided. Some
people here may remember her as Mrs
Kingscote, while others will recall her
under her literary nom de guerre Of "I.u-
Gus Cleeve," over which she has not only
published a number of books, but likewise
many newspaper and magazine articles,
several of which were of sufficient import
ance to find a place in the Nineteenth
Century Review. She is not, as stated
In the cable dispatches, the wife of the
popular and well-known euuerry of the
Prince of Wales. The latter, Sir Rob-
ert Ktngsccte by name, is only a distant
cousin Of her husband, while Sir Roberts
wife, Lady Emily Kingscote, a singularly
charming woman and one of the favorite
ladies-in-waiting with the Princess Of
Wales, has nothing In common with Mrs
Kingscote. She cannot fail to have been
much annoyed by the mistake made even
by the English newspapers confounding
her with the now notorious daughter of
Sir Henry Drummond Wolfe.
Mrs. Kingscote has moved IN the very
highest society at home, as we'll as
abroad, and only a few years ago, dur
ing the illness of her mother, Lady
Wolfe, took the latter's place as British
ambassadress at Madrid, and did the hon
ors Of the establishment Of her father,
the ambassador, frequently entertaining.
royafty.
The three persons whose financial mis-
fortunes have of late brought Mrs Kings
cCte's name so prominently before the
public, are Lord Byron, who has inherit
ed the title, though not the estates Of
the famous poet, Lord Byron. who was
one Of his distant cousins Lord Byron
is very far from being either the young
or inexperienced man that Is indicated
by the dispatches. On the contrary, he
is an exceedingly shrewd, widely trav-
eled and experienced man of over fifty,
who has practically been everywhere and
seen everything. He possessed a fortune
of about half million Of dollars, all Of
which has been squandered on Mrs
Kingscote.
The two other victims are a couple of
clergynlen, rectors of large and popular
parishes in the county of Oxford, and
who, as the pastors and spiritual mem
tors Of men Of every degree, must GER
tainly possess some knowledge of the
world. In each case they are men nearer
sixty than fifty, and, what is more, are
Yet they have ruined themselves, not
only financially, but also socially and
enthusiastically, for the sake of this eX-
traordinary woman, who was in the habit,
according to their own account, of re-
Wiling them and abusing them in the
most contemptuous fashion.
The sums which Mrs. Kingscote has
obtained from these three mature men
of the world, either in the form of gifts
hat 10 no
turned, or else bills signed by them and
which she got discounted, amount in
round figures to over $1,000,000; and it is
asserted by those in position to know
that this constitutes only moiety Of the
sums which she has distracted from peo-
pie in all parts of the world during the
last fifteen or twenty years by means of
her hypnotic eyes and mysterious powers
upon the wills of others.
Yet another victim is a young Capt.
Adams, the son of an exceedingly wealthy
family and owning a large amount of
property in his own right. By using her
will power on him she induced him to
marry, on the day after his return from
India, a woman whom he had never seen
in his life before, and whom Mrs. Kings
cote declared to be a widow. The wom-
an managed to extract large sums OF
money from her husband and when,
few months afterward his leave expired
and he was obliged to reJoin his regi-
ment in India, she insisted on remaining
behind.
He thereupon appealed to Mrs. Kings
cote to aid him to get rid OF the woman.
This Mrs KtngscOte undertook to do.
Divorce can only be obtained in Eng
land on statutory grounds. Accordingly,
Mrs Adams undertook to give her hus-
band the proper grounds for divorce.
If he would pay her large sum OF
money by way of reparatfon of the in
jury done to her name and reputation
which would be caused thereby. 1t was
arranged with Mrs. Kingscote that her
brother, the ex-Capt. Drummond Wolfe,
should likewise receive a large sum Of
money from Capt Adams for his serv-
ices in figuring as correspondent. Ulti-
mately the divorce was obtained and
Capt. Adams became once more a free
man, though what he paid first and last
in connection with the entire affair from
the time when he first became acquaint-
ed with Mrs. Kingscote until the
time when he secured divorce from his
wife, by the means indicated above, must
have run up into the hundreds of thou
sands of pounds.
Yet another victim of Mrs. Kingscote
and of her disreputable brother was the
Hon. Alfred Hood, son of the queens
senior lord-in-waiting, Lord Bridport,
who has likewise inherited from his I'M
Gle, the great admiral, Lord Nelson, the