The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-08
Has Degrees from Three Widely Known Uni
versities; Has Travelled, Observed
and Read.
Ills BRILLIANT MENTAL ATTAINMENTS
Possesses Vast Store of Information and Finished
Conversatonalist--Go Eight Years for Bigamy,
but Claims He Was Divorced from
His First Wife.
(Wri:tsa for The Sunday Times.)

If the story told by John Hubert Fraw-
ley be true, he is one OF the most heroic
martyrs to family affection that ever pac-
eG the floor OF, a convicts cell. F'Tawley
is a man of the most finished manners and
address. He enjoyed the advantages of
rare education, extensive travel and broad
literary ana commercial experience.
Though the son OF a once celebrated pro-
fessor in a world-renowned institution OF
learning. the former husband Of a dauSh-
ter of one Of New England's prominent
capitalists, and an educator of wide rep
utation, he is a social outCaSt serving
d term Of eight years behind the bars
of one OF the vilest prisons that ever
smirched the reputation of an old and
nonored State, famous the world over
for her history cultivation and hospitals
~.
Hubert Frawley. as he is Familiarity
known. has the blue blood OF Europe
flowing through his veins. He came of
an old and distinguished family, whose
religious faith was a target for persecu-
zion and harGships inflicted by its relent-
lessly narrow enemies. Froehch was the
original name. HIS ancestors left their
once peaceful and happy domains on the
Rhine, and went over into France. There
they met with harsh treatment and in
suit until they continued their wander
:ngs to the Emerald Isle, and became
known as the Palatines of Aud Ireland.
The Irish have long chung affecuonately
10 the terminal V in proper names ana
10 the name Froelich was gradually
transformed into f>rawley.
AT QUEENS COLLEGE.
Hubert was a precocious child. His
father was a leading professor in Triri-
ty College, Dublin, which stood h,sh not
only on the continent as an institution
of learning but was known even in Amer
lea. Asia and Africa as the alma mater
of men whose minds had illumineG the
pages OF literature, art and science. so
after Hubert grew up to a youth MS Ia
Their, then living in New York, sent nm
back to the auld country TO be educated.
Hubert was matriculated at Queens COZ
iese, Belfast, from which institution he
was graduated with honors ana received
the degree OF Master of Arts He tray
eled abroad, laying a foundation Tor that
broad knowl~-ge OF human nature, that
wealth of information about the history
and customs of the European people, that
keen insight into social and economic con-
ditions which now lend finish ana
sparkle to his conversational powers.
Returning TO America young FraWiey
studied several years at Harvard Uni
versity His thesis upon which he was
honored with he degree of a. NJ. opened
the ewes of men of broad reputation in
the educational world. He WAS after
wards rewarded for his research into lit
erary and scientific fields with .Ae de-
gree of A. NJ, from the University OF
Ottowa, IN the Dominion OF Canada.
BECAME A PROFESSOR.
Ere this he had attracted the atter-
ton of some OF the leading scholars Of
the North, and as a result was chosen
over a number OF others as Professor Of
Physiology and Hygiene in McGill Uni
versity. Montreal. Canada. an institution
OF high standing. and the alma mater