Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-25
HEUE? MAYBE
Bertrand Oufresne" Has a
Hot Time, Anyhow.
DECLARES HE'S NOT SAGAM
Runs a Race With Reporters in
Philadelphia.
POLICE HAVE TO HELP HIM
AS Much Mystery as Ever Over the
Supposed Wooer of Anna
Gould's Fortune.
DECLARES HE'S NOT SAGAh
POLICE HAVE TO HELP HIM

Special Dispatch I" Tho star
PHILADELPHIA March o5-Waving
his hand to reporters. Bertrand Du-
fresno" or the Prince dc Sasan. which
ever he is, made a SPECTACULAR getaway
from the Bellevue Stratford this morn
ing In French the mysterious man
said:
"Mcssieurs. you arc at fault"
He was pressed on all sides Ia admit
his identity. but he only smiled and
made the above remark.
1t was five minutes of II o'clock
when the stranger who had been
prisoner in his room for thirty six
hours. came down the elevator and
startled the score or more of newspaper
men who We're waiting for a chance' TO
talk with him. Instantly he was sur
rounded, but he pushed his way through
the crowd and, preceded by n porter
carrying his grip. made his way from
the lobby to cab waiting at the wal
nut Street entrance to the hotel.
Race to the Train.
The cab had been engaged by re-
porters and as the scribes piled in the
vehicle the astonished foreigner jumped
out the other side. He then made a
being held for just such an emergency
by the reporters, and he was compelled
to seek another carriage. Led by the
porter with his grip, the supposed prince
was taken to the carriage waiting in
the rear of the hotel and there secured
a hanson. The driver was instructed
to make speed to the Broad street sta
ton. and with four other cabs X -epinS
close behind, started up Broad street
and a dozen or more reporters and as
nry inf
sidewalk ks.
The Strange procession attracted the at
tention of the hundreds of people throng-
ing the streets in that busy neighborhood.
and soon a mob was following to see
what was going to happen. At the city
hall the driver Of the first cab made a
turn to the left as though he intended
to go to the Reading terminal. but at
Market street he kept on around the
hall plaza and drove up to the covered
The supposed prince was out of the cab
like a fash and started for the ticket
office. He was surrounded by the camera
men, whose instruments clicked like SO
many rapid-fre guns.
Police to the Rescue.
The stranger seemed ratified by the
crowd pressing about him. and several
big policemen came over from the city
hall plaza to see what the row was about.
They drove back the curious mob and
made II passage way for the alleged
ticket window. In excellent English he
asked for ticket to New York, laying
down a s. bill TO pay for ii.
Newspaper men asked him if he was
not Prince Helie de Sagan and what he
thought of Count Boni but he only
laughed and waved his hand above his
head. There was another showing time
to get pStairs to the train she'd and the
New York train was reached just AS the
gatemen were closing the gates. He held
1t long enough for tie stranger to get
through. and. springing down the long
platform with the agility of an athlete,
he jumped aboard the train, with string
of reporters piling on after him.
keep the Change-Awhile."
The train pulled out two minutes after
4 o'clock and had reached the West Phila-
delphia station. mile from Broad street.
The prince seated IN chair car. He
refused to converse with reporters beyond
smiling comment that they We're at fault.
Half the snapshots made of him at the
hotel and in the railroad station were val
ueless. the negatives showing nothing but
a streak the lights being poor and the
harassed stranger moving too rapidly
for good exposure.
II was not thought that he would leave
today for a half an hour before he came
down from his room he had sent thou
sand franc note to the Franklin National
Bank to be changed into American cur
rency.
He did not wait for the messenger to
return. but told the clerk at the desk to
take the amount of his bill out of the
money and then keep the rest until he
should call for it.
Special Dispatch To The Star.
NEW YORK, March Cit was ad-
mitted late this afternoon that Prince de
Sagan is stopping at the Waldorf