Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-11
A BOGUSLORD IN JAIL
Sidney Lascelles, the Notorious
Impostor, Arrested on Charge
of Forgery.
His Career Of Crime Has Ex-
tended Over Large Part Of
the World.
Raised on Devonshire Estate in
England..Married American
Heiress.

Boston, Mass, Jan. ll.-SiQney Las
celles otherwise known as Lord"
Bereford, was arrested at one of the
prominent downtown hotels last night
and locked up in the city prison. He Is
wanted on the, charge Of passing a
worthless check on Lyman T. Hay, pro-
prietor of the Arlington Hotel, Hot
Springs, Ark, and obtaining $1,000.
Lascelles was born on the estates Of
the duke of Devonshire, where his faith
er was gamekeeper and his mother
prior to her marriage. a beautiful, girl.
Before he was II years old he had rid
den the hounds as an attendant, ac-
quired an acquaintanceship with the
manners OF nobility and had taken
some $4,000 from the strong box of his
master. Then he fled to Algiers, where
requisition papers receive no recogni-
ton. He posed at the son of the house
of Beresford and claimed the right to
call both Lord Charles and Lord Mar
Gus OF that name uncle"
One day he met Miss Maud Lilienthal,
an American heiress to $1,000,0OO, who
came from Yonkers N. Y. Altho a
mere youngster he was an adept at
winning his way into the graces cf the
opposite sex and one day the American
colony was surprised to learn that Miss
Lilienthal had eloped to Cairo with the
Lord
Lascelles opened negotiations with
the duke of Devonshire for the return
of the amount of his stealings and the
dropping OF all prosecution. AS he
needed the money the duke agreed and
Lord" Bereford, free man under the
law, with his wife, sailed for this coun-
try. They became guests at the Fifth
avenue hotel, New York, and were lion
lied.
One morning among the prisoners be-
fore the rail in the Jefferson Market
police court WAS the gay Lord who
had ben captured in a raid. He was
fined $40. His wife. hearing Of MS es-i
capade. left him and secured a divorce.
Lascelles made his advent into Georg-
ia in 1921, and the base Of his operations
for time was at Rome
He posed as the representative Of an
English syndicate looking for iron
properties A wealthy family there
cashed a draft for him. and he was ar
He was arrested, however, on a charge
of forging checks and was sent to the
Georgia state prison for five years He
implored his divorced wife to help him,
and, thru her wealth and influence, he
was pardoned by Governor Atkinson.
Shortly after the. man got out of .pris-
on he met a Miss Petty of Providence,
r. l., worth 100000, and was married to
her. They went to live at Fitzgerald,
Ca, where Lascelles started wholesale
grocery and commission house and APP
parently prospered. In less than year
he was fugitive from Justice. charged
with having swindled the well-known
Hamilton family of Rome, Ga.
He went to the City of Mexico and
was known there as Lord" Courtenay.
AT the American club by unfair card
playing and by the sale Of bogus stock
in the British Thomas Houston Com
pany he is alleged to have defrauded the
citizens Of the Mexican capt.
tai out of 100000 and fled back to the
states.
Again he was brought back to Geor-
gia. but this time accompanied by his
wife. who spent money lavishly in his
behalf. He was convicted, however.
and sent to a convict camp
Escaping from the camp he was next
heard Of at Americas. Ga. but here his
second wife secured divorce from him.
Soon after he secured the franchise for
an electric lighting plant and water
works system at Fitzgerald, from the
promoters of the town-G. A. r. men OF
Indiana. He married the daughter of
q wealthy man at Fitzgerald and disap-l
peared
Living as James A. Lasalles at the
Hot Springs he turned to gambling. and,
1t is said, won heavily at first, but went
broke" one day, and 1t Is charged he
then cashed the 81. 200 check which turn
ed out to be worthless.
Lascelles has been known under many
aliases. besides Lord Beresford, among
them being Sir Harry Vane, r. N. and
Lord Courtenay, Claude b. Lascelle.
and James A. Lasalles