New-York tribune., 1903-08-14
HE LOST FORTUNES.
e. L. Dpyer's Liabilities S374,8S5,
assets S15O-Romantic Career.

Edward L. Dwyer Yesterday filed a petition in
bankruptcy with the clerk of the United states
District Court naming liabilities of S4.S35 and
assets of $50 OF the total liabilities, $1cis0O are
secured The principal creditors are the estate of
Granville S Ingraham, Of Chicago. S53,000 secured
by assignment of life insurance policies; the estate
OF Benjamin z. Bates of Boston, 600 secured by
hypothecation stock of the Flavel Land and
Development Company. of Oregon; a. p. Hine, Of
Torrington Conn. $4,000; George NJ. Bogue. of
Chicago $4,000 secured by stock IF the Flavel com
pany; Alexander Mcneil of Litchfeld. Conn, Sl0,-
600, secured by Flavel stock; Nathaniel G. Read.
No. 107 Westinghouse, Boston, $4,000; William II.
Davis, of London S35 900; estate Of Culver e.
Thyng. of Olean n. Y. $4,000: A. T. Totman of
Fairfield, $2O coo; Gonzales Cabsal of Zacatecas.
Mex. $4,000; Kelly Tucker of New-haven. $4,000
The petitioner also owes on accommodation papers
ndorsed by him $4,000. The Indebtedness was in
Cured from 1888 TO 1896. in New-York. LEMON.
Vienna and Mexico
Dwyers history reads like a romance. Born IN
Connecticut forty-three years ago. he received
common school education, and at the age OF
twenty-five years went to Mexico, where he de-
veloped twenty thousand acres of farming Iand
and constructed a railroad In this scheme he
realized, his friends say s1OG0OO0. He then went TO
Chicago and took up wheat speculation and FOR
time known as the Napoleon OF the
wheat pit" In his wheat speculation he MADE Il
fortune, but finally lost all.
In 1893, while looking some orange groves
in Florida, he met and married the Duchess de
Castelluccia, NeW--Yorl1 woman who many years
before had married Italian nObleman. At that
time she owned many of orange groves under
full cultivation. The duchess was then about
seventy-three years old and Dwyer was thirty
three. Nine months after the marriage Mrs. Dwyer
died leaving an estate of $3O0000, 1t Is said
One of the properties in this city was the Hotel
Burlington in Thrtieth-st. In her Will she lett
Dwyer SO. He and a granddaughter the Countess
di Calderrozzo contested the will and for SIX years
the case before the New-YOrk surrogate VINO
finally admitted the will to probate.
After the death of his wife DWyer went all over
the West. organizing mining companies and large
land companies Many of these Western com
panies organized by him have returned large sums
to the investors, of which he has received nothing
it is said. According Jesse Grant Rowe. Dwyer
counsel. he discovered the silver mines In the
State of Zacatecas. Mexico, and organized COM
pany, and the mine to-day is one of the best pay
ing of known silver mines.
Coming back to New-York from Europe, Dwyer,
in August 1900 enlisted in the marine corps in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard for term of three years and
the marine corps on the application of friends, he
received an honorable discharge.
In explaining the for the petition in bank
ruptcy Mr.. Rowe said:
"Dwyer is now being backed by European syn
dicate in land and mining development scheme
hut the syndicate has refused to have anything
to do with him until his old debts are wiped out
and he is able to begin over again with a clean
sheet AS soon as this is done he will return to
Europe and Immediately begin the work mapped
out for him by the syndicate.