The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Reporter after me. Look sharp.
Have put him off. Hope have stopped
story. Be careful. Don't compromise .
1t has been ascertained that the
count sails for Europe on the Ham
burg American liner Kaiserin Auguste
Victoria while his wife remains in Chi
cago.
Father-in-Iaw KilgaIIen yesterday
was just as emphatic as Count de
Beaufort had been in denying that
there was the slightest ruffie on the
matrimonial seas of the count and
| his consort.
TITS preposterous to intimate such
a thing" said Mr.. KilgaIen. pulling
from his pocket a letter from the
count, dated New York. September 81.
It was addressed to Dear Governor -
and was signed Jack
That doesn't look like trouble does
1t ?" he said. THE countess is in Chi
cago because she does not like hotel
life The count is fitting up an apart
ment for her in New York and she
expects to join him there very soon.
! The count is going abroad on business
for our firm, but I do not think he
Will sail on Saturday. When he does
go the countess will probably go with
him"
May Make Up.
| Accompanied by her father M H.
| kIgallon. a millionaire steel manufac-
| turer of Chicago, the Countess de Beau
I -
| rled to the bedside of her husband
! Count de Beaufort, the young Dutch
| nobleman who was injured by a fall
| from his horse on Sunday. De Beau
fort at present is a patient at his
| boarding house in West Thirty first
street, but Mr.. KilgalIon said that he
would be removed to a hospital if he
needed such care. DR.. J. S. Kolle, who
is attending the count, said last night
that he is a very sick boy
/ Tho ur11a hoe
| apart from her husband. declined to
! discuss reports that reconciliation had
been effected.
Young Count de Beaufort has had a
varied career. He served six years in
| the Dutch army and fell in love with
Miss Kilgallon abroad. He followed
! her to America and they were married
| last October. 1t was a near elopement,
although they went to her home after
ward. The fact that the son had be-
! longed to the Dutch army and had til
| ties several feet long appealed not TO
F'ather-in -law Kilgallon. Something
more substantial had to be presented
to him.
Therefore the count went to work in
a stel mill in Chicago at $3.50 a day.
/ For brief time only he and his wife
lived in a s16 cottage. The count
worked hard for few weeks, and then
declared gleefully to his friends and
| the press that he had made good and
| in-law in New York.
Not long ago he came east and spent
/ a month at Bay Head, n. J. Then he
/ got desk room in an office at No. II
Wall street. He said he was represent
ing his father-in-law.
The count has had some interesting
/ experiences. He got into difficulty
playing roulette in the Southern club
in Hot Springs. and the countess trous-
{ seau of four trunks was seized, a con-
! stable claiming them to satisfy a debt
of $500.
/ The count had played roulette. and
| he received bill for $500. He was told
j he had been playing with dollar chips.
/ He said he had believed all the time
that the chips were worth only ten
cents He took the case to the courts
and Won
A few days ago the counts name ap-
! peared on the sailing list of a transat-
/ lantic liner. He was to have sailed
Saturday morning.
At the time, Mr.. Kilgallon. in Chi
cago was asked if there had been trou-
| bic between his daughter and her titled
husband, and he denied it. He said that
if the count sailed the countess would
! go with him.