The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
RONkNCE DON PEDRO'S PLEA.
SAYS HEss A DEAi q IN LITERA-
TURE NOT Lost ESTATES.
when He Described the Brooklyn Bridge
as o Gateway to the La Pierre Posses
sionS Il Was Part OF o Plot for q Novel

when He Described the Brooklyn Bridge
As q Gateway to the La Pierre Posses
sions IL Was Part OF . Plot for o Novel
Jury o to @ on This Presentation.
1t will be left to another jury to determine
whether or not Don Pedro Suarez de Moreno
is a swindler. A jury In Judge Fosters
court In General Sessions disagreed yester-
day and was discharged. Don Pedro, who
was tried for larceny, will be indicted again
on another charge and tried next week.
The Jury yesterday stood six to six.
Don Pedro was tried on the complaint
of Jean Emile La Pierre, who wac living at
Brussels when Don Pedro visited him a
year or 30 ago. IL was a wonderful tale
that Don Pedro unfolded to Jean, his wife
and their friend, Nine. Reddon. Don
Pedro said that one lear Tessier had died
In Bellevue In 1914 Chat was before Bellevue
was started. According to Don Pedro,
Tester owned practically all New York
city and more. There we're a few Belgian
heirs, and Nine. La Pierre was one. Dor
Pedro after some talk was commissioned
to collect Nine. La Pierre's share on a ~
per cent basis.
Don Pedro came to this country and sent
to the La Pierres fanciful descriptions Of
the Tessier estate, which Don Pedro said
was worth $500 900, 900. There was one
picture which said:
"This shows your ancestral estate, located
beautifully on a side overlooking the Hudson
River"
There were pictures of the Flatiron Build
ing, Central Park, Coney Island and the
Brooklyn Bridge, all part OF the estate,
which was itemized for the benefit of the
La Pierres IA follows:
Land In Central Park ceded TO the city. . yOOo.2Oo
Gold deposit in the National United states
Nos. l00-1 lS Broadway. 5.OO0,O 900
Hotel savoy. S.O00.O00
Hotel Netherland, .............,.., 20.OO0.O00
Coal mines in TeKaS....., ........... NOOOyO0O
Petroleum wells in Pennsylvania ~, ....... Oyo10yogo
Share In Mexican silver inc..,..,.,... 5000
Pleasure house in Florida ,-........,,. 100000
Property facing Central Park.. ,..,...,... l2.Go00o0
Other property similarly located .. ....... 3]O.OOOOOO
Two Can adian railways. ,....,...,..... I0,GOO,0OO
A steamshIp line. ................ lOO,OOOOO0
Dock and pier on brooklyn River. .,,,,.. l%2o,OOooOo
An uncollcctcd deb..... ............ 10000
Deposited With the city hambcrlain..... 5.O6OOOO
There were also a few hundred millions
In bonds and in interest due the estate.
La Pierre told all these things on the witness
stand, while the court loungers gasped
at the enormous sums. Impressed by
what they heard from Don Pedro, La Pierre
and Mime. Reddon came to this country
to look into the thing. Don Pedro took
them around in IL sightseeing auto and
pOIlllt oAl Vi NV lAi hot "IliN INV
were told would eventually fall to Nine,
La Pierre. For their trip they were charged
81, 500 for expenses by Don Pedro, the specific
amount named in the indictment being SIP.
Don Pedro took TIE stand and said that
La Pierre's story was all wrong, that they
knew he had simply constructed a romance
which was to DO the basis of a novel in
French. Italian and Spanish. La Pierre,
said Don Pedro, knew that and simply adj
vanced the money to publish the novel.
Nine. Reddon was called to the stand to
contradict Don Pedro's story.
"On the heads of my children every word
he says is a lie, she said in Frenc
Don Pedro said he was very unwilling
TO tell his history. He was a Carlist, he
said. and had been driven out Of Spain
with n price on his head. He had been
married twice, but declined to say where
the second marriage took place.
Il couldn't do that, he sa d. 1T would
be dangerous because Of my connections
in Spain"
Then Assistant District Attorney Train
called his second wife, and she was reluctant
to tell. She knew the minister, but she
couldn't remember where he ived or his
name. Then she absolutely refused to tell
any Of the details of the marriage
And why?" asked Mr.. Train.
ut might fncriminate me" she said.
Dor Pedro was remanded to the To mbs.
A new complaint will be made against him
by Nine. Reddon. who says that Don Pedro
swindled her out Of $13S.
One OF the juro's' was fifteen minute
late yesterday and was fined $40 by Judge
Foster.