The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-07
PARIS, ,BUNKO
MAN DECAMPS
count" HAMoN, BANKER, JOUR
NALlsT, PROMOTER, FLEEs
FROM VICTIMS.
LIVED A GAY LIFE IN PAREE
Maintained Superb Establishment,
Moved in Good Society, oabbled
in Various Enterprises and
Finally Went Broke.

Paris, January 7.-"Count" Louis
Hamon, formerly known in America
and Europe as "Cheiro, the palmist," |"
and before that as plain John Warner
is fugitive from France, and the on,
tire American and English colony is
discussing one OF the most meteoric
and mysterious careers which ever
iazzled Partisan society.
Hamon is charged with embezzle.
ment. and his sumptuous offices,
where he edited a newspaper called
The American Register and conducted
a bank and other enterprises, to which
Americans loaned capital, are bare
and empty. scores of creditors having
descended and seized everything
rhe complainsnts against Hamon are
Mrs. Julia p. Newell and Miss Jose
phine Pomeroy, formerly Of New
York, but now residents of Paris, who
declare that they turned over to
Hamon stocks to the market value of
100000, on which Hamon agreed to
raise loan through London banks of
s150,000. They allege that Hamon
neither negotiated the loan nor re-
turned the stocks, in consequence Of
which they began a criminal action
against the Hamon bank, and Hamon
aed to London.
Hamon had been a dashing figure in
Paris since his arrival here six years
ago. He lived in costly apartments In
the Rue Du Bois Du Bologne. Since
ha rptt -, a..ta H.. An
transformed himself from "Cheiro, the
palmist" to "CoGnt Hamon," he has
lad easy access TO society. One of his
special friends was a man known as
Able De La Fresnaye," whose schol-
arly and agreeable manner secured
for him entry into the most exclusive
circles. IL was the "abbe" who pre-
sented Hamon everywhere and intro.
duced him to Mrs Newell and many
others, with whom later he had busi-
ness dealings. There are reports that
Hamon and his friend, as the result
of their connection, we're able to "ar-
range" many marriages, among people
Of high standing in the Anglo-Ameri-
can colony.
Everybody talked OF the mysterious
Count" Hamon, his dashing manner,
his beautiful apartments, his horses,
his vast business ventures, including
a pretentious champagne enterprise
near Rheims from which he supplied
many of the high class restaurants in
Paris, and of his bank and mis- society
paper, advertised to the world by big
electric letters in the gay Place de
L'Opera.
But lannon's life before he came to
Paris was a great mystery. 1t was
known that he had been "Cheiro, the
palmist," who 1t was said had ac-
quired vast sums OF money in England
and America, but how he had acquired
the title of count" was not known.
New York, Jan. THE career in
Paris of "Chelro, the palmist" as
Count Hamon," otherwise John War
ner, was in many ways matched by his
sensational doings among society peo-
pie in New York City eight years ago.
Here he amassed a fortune of many
thousands of dollars, collected for the
most part from society women in ex-
change for reading the past, present
and future on their finely lined palms.
Women prominent in social circles
focked to the Office of Cheiro and he
received s. for half an hours palm
reading He has appeared as an
Egyptian, Hindoo and a Frenchman,
but 1t is believed he is an Irishman by
birth