The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-21
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The fact has repeatedly been printed III
able authority, that Count Guido Lynar'
a member of the princely house OF thet
name is living in Italy without the sl1gh'-
est attempt to conceal his identity. Tn"
count. a major of the crack regiment of
| the Garde du Corps. decorated with al
| most every order of Europe, possessed
of an iudependent fortune of $4,000
year. was arrested by the English police
in London on a particularly revolving
| charge while occupying the post OF mrs.
secretary of the German embassy. Had
he given his name and quality to the po-
lice when arrested, he would have at
once been set az liberty, and steps taken
| to hush the matter up. But he lost ms
| head. and refraned from disclosing his
identity until he had undergone the pub
| lie gnominy of being placed in the pris-
oners' dock. On the assurance given
| by the German government that Lynar
should he severely punished. he was
| turned over 90 the embassy and by the
| latter to three officials of the Berlin po-
| lice, who took him back with them to
| Germany on arriving there he was ct
once placed in an insane asylum, on the
! plea that he was demented, and his
name was removed from the roster of the
! diplomatic service, as well as from that
of the army Three months later 1t was
! announced in all the papers that Re
| had died while under restraint. and his
name, after being cited in the neurological
| appendix of the Almanach de Gotha dis
! appeared from that golden book Of the
! European nobility A coffin purporting
to contain his remains was placed in the
/ family vault and his widowed mother,
after mourning for her son. died about
six months later it was said. of a broken
heart
A similar story is re ated of an uncle of
| Lord end l ally Hooe Che later May
Yohe). who sailed from New York fer
| England the other day. The uncle in
| question was Lord Arthur Pelham Gin
| ton. member of Parliament and a com
mander of the royal navy. He, too got
! mixed up in scrape of the same kind
as Co MT Lynar ar j was about to be con-
| Victed, when the announcement of his
! dcath was made, and he was inferred wi h
| much pomD ard ceremony in the vaults
of the ducal house of Newcastle. Yet
| few months later he was recognized in
New York, where he scent the remainder
| Of his life ind r the name of Mr.. Simp-
| son" ard used to haunt the restaurants
and saloons around Union and Madison
squar' s. He also remained a long time In
enc of the Metropolitan hospitals owing to
an accident which occurred to him on his
way out to this country.
The celebrated bruce claim to the duke
dom of POr land rests altogether on the
| conten ion that the late Duke of Port
land survived his alleged death for
number Of years under name of bruce;
that he married and bad children under
the name of bruce. aid hat the object
of his bogus funeral Duke of Port
land was his or ad of being ca led to ac-
count for the mysterious death of his
celebrated brother, Lord George Caven-
dish Bentnck, of racing fame. The en-
tire controversy about the matter. which
gave no little annoyance and expense to
The pre- ent duke, a dis ant cousin of his
predecessor. coud have besn settled at
once had the collins containing the re-
mains of the late Duke of Portland and
likewise of the late DIR. Bruce been open
ell and examined but the present Duke
devoted all his infu, nee and great sums
of monty to prevent this being Gone, and
consequently the doubt as 10 whether he
or the son of the widowed MIS-. bruce is
the lawful hair of the late Duke of Port
land remains in allegiance and unsettled
Some time ago there likewise appeared
a claimant 10 the dukedom of Hamilton
in the person of a man who insisted that
he was the only brother, Charles by
name of the late Duke, and that he had
been obliged to vanish from the scene
owing to his having killed in duel the
Russian Count Pasdewitch, with whose
wife he had eloped. He declared that
proof Of the truth of his statements could
be found if the coffin alleged to contain
the remains Of the late Lord Charles
Hamilton, which is entombed in the
family mausoleum at Hamilton Palace
in Scotland. We're examined, and added
that it would be found to contain nothing
but sand and fagots. Here again the pres
emf Duke, who is a remote cousin of his
predecessor. declined 10 consent 40 the
examination of the remains of Lord
Charles and the issue remains, therefore
undecided.
I could cite many other instances of
the same kind in England and on the
continent. among them that of the late
King Of Saxony who is generally believed
in Germany to have survived his alleged
demise and grand obsequisies for a num-
Der of years. under s<rict restraint in
remote mountain monastery. afflicted with
most appalling form of homicidal ma
mia, which had led him to the perpetra-
ton of more than one insane murder
Nor should I omit the case of the late
Earl of Aylesford, the too genial joey
who, having BEEN forced 20 expatriate
himself from England. ruined beyond
hope. socially as well as financially. was
reported to have died in Texas. A coffin
with body therein represented 10 he
that of the Earl was brought to England
and Inferred with much ceremony But
doubts were entertained "a the time and
still exist, as 20 whether he was really
dead curious feature in connection with
the affair being that the insurance on
his life was never collected.
After all, this is as IL should be. When
a man misbehaves himself to such an
extent as to bring himself within the
grasp of criminal law he should be re-
garded, ipso fac'o, as dead. IL not in a
material sense, at any rate In civic one
-.-o-s-
Americans do not need to be reminded
that Lord Russell was one of counsel for
! Gerst Britain before the Behrlng Sea
Commission and enc OF the arbitrators Of
the Venezuela case. but his greatest tri-
umph was probably won in the famous
Parnell Commission IN 1889 when he act