The St. Louis Republic., 1901-05-08
METE0RIC CAREER
NEARING THE END.
Bogus Count Marian de Zaremba,
Who Won New York Heiress,
Dying in Poverty.
.PITIFUL DEATHBED STORY.
Mad Desire to Provide Luxury for
the Woman He WOrshiped Led
to His DOwnfall-Regrets
His Dishonesty.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York. May TT feel that may
not live until morning. and the physicians
are OF the same opinion. but If do see the
sunlight again I also want to know that in
Few matters. at least, i have been set
right In the eyes Of my friends. And be-
heve what say to you, for am dying. and
| dying men do not.le"
In voice so faint that II lent corrobora-
ton to his statement Doctor Marian de
Zaremba said this tonight. He was on one
or the ten couches in the charity ward Of
ST. Vtncent's Hospital. his eyes sunken, his
features pallid and drawn. his hands 70
shriVeled that II seemed as II the skin
alone held the bones in place.
So ends the sensational career Of a man
VINO at times masqueraded under the title
Of Count" to which he had no right; who
as such was married secretly to Miss Jose
phine savin. the dashing daughter of Frank
savin. broker Of this city; who. in order
10 support her In the style to which she
was accustomed, stole funds which were in
his care; who passed several years in the
'A' SipS NShiS, anu WHO WdS
pardoned by Governor Odell last week be-
cause he had only few days to live. and
then was taken to the institution which he
never will leave alive
Neglected by wife, Though Dying.
What i wish to deny particularly" he
went IN. ''is the statement which has been
made nearly every day since Tuesday last.
when l was brought here. that my wife has
spent hours at my bedside nursing me as
Wife should. and that her father. too, has
been constant visitor to the hospital
You might find my wife at the Waldorf
Astoria or some other fashionable place
have not seen her or heard from her in
years. As for her father. never saw him
but once In my life and then l asked him
I II l might pay court to the woman who
afterward became my wife. His answer
was that he had separated from his family.
| and that 1t was matter of no concern to
| him to whom his daughter was married"
The sufferer. who is in bad clutch of
a complication Of Diseases had to pause
long enough for nurse to hold glass Of
water to his parched lips. His effort In
talking was so great that he lay painting
for some minutes before he could continue.
Then. with a deep sigh, which caused the
! patients on the adjoining cots TO turn their
heads and gaze at him. he added
story of His Downfall.
"And this is the awful price I pay be-
cause !, a poor. guliible foreigner. felt fat
tered that / was chosen by an American
girl, whom I had placed on a pedestal as
being all that was best, purest and sweet
est In womanhood But although my wife
has forgotten me: although 1t was she that
led me to crime that l might satisfy her
every whim. all wish to say about her is
that she is great. unfathomable enigma.
Il have done wrong. I had no right to
the title Of Count. but 1t was at the sue-
gestion of physician In Washington that
assumed 1t, and 1t stuck to me, although
never have 1 signed myself as such, nor
have led any one to believe was Of the
nobility. The girl 1 made my wife knew
this. too. She was aware that no Count
would live In one OF the cheapest hotels in
Broadway, In a room for which he paid
s.. so a week.
Just think of it," he went on, after an
other pause. II was working in the Polish
Home here. getting $50 month. when /
first met her. in June. 1897. Our meetings
were secret. 1 squandered money to buy
boxes at the theaters for her. to pay for
dinners at the Waldorf-Astoria where 1
soon learned she had many friends among
the habitues. 1 had a little money in the
bank. 1t was soon gone. Then I had to
go to Saratoga TO see her. i was forced
10 plunge Into extravagances Of which I
never had dreamed. and then I took the
funds Of the home
For this was prosecuted by the presi-
dent. the Reverend Stephen Szymanski, and
In March. 1899. I was sent to prison for
three years. 1t was then became Ill and,
to-
l had TO remain there until 1t was too late
to do anything for me-
He did not forget to pay a tribute to the
warden OF the prison and the officials OF the
hospital there. who furnished him with
delicacies and stimuants to sustain him on
the trip to the city. He was most grateful,
too. to the Reverend James Dworzak of
Williams Bridge. and the Reverend John
strzekecki of the Church OF st. Stanislaus
In Seventh street, who had interested them
selves in his behalf and had induced Arch
bishop Corrigan 10 write to Governor Odell
asking that he be pardoned.
In the same spirit he spoke Of Louis W.
Beald. president of the Society oswiata, or
Polish Educational Society. and his other
countrymen who visit him daily and who
are arranging to bury him when he is no
more.
After our secret marriage" he con-
tinued, 1--WE lived in the Hotel Grenoble.
where It was said my wife had attempted
suicide one night We never were happy.
My expenses were a thing could not bear
and then came the discovery that was a
swindler. Don't think the less of me IL I
say that literally was forced into shining.
My love for that woman was such that
would have done anything for her, and the
luxuries had INDUCED in had turned my
brain.
But don't want to make any excuses;
1t Is all over now. and my knowledge If
medicine convinces me that will not be
IN this world twenty-four hours longer /
may say. too. that have no regrets, ex-.
cept that l was not more scrupulous, more
honest"
He would have spoken more, although he
could not hide the pain the effort caused
him. but nurse came to his bedside, said
1t was the hour when all visitors must de-
part. and that he must have hia r,,ndIe,i.,.,