The Detroit times., 1910-06-01
|dNT DRAGs IN
ARR|MAN' S NAME
alby Says Great Financier Wish.
ed To Buy His "0ld Masters"
"Heirlooms."

~ AXIS, May 3l.--The trial OF the
-sse's's Count d'Aulby drags along at
burs. In the ancient, .dingy court
Hew lights are thrown on the adven.
rer, the son OF cockney tailor, and
Y bis "old masters" and antique"
rriture which, at cost OF several
ndred thousand dollars, embellisn
-. Charles Hamilton Paine's man
IN In Avenue Du Bois de Boulogne
me last great name that d'Aulby
dragged into the case Is that OF
late Edward II. Hartman. D'Aul
= saya unblushingly that Mr.. HaTri.
n greatly desired TO buy his collec.
a for the Hartman gallery. D'Aulby
i Informed the late Mr. Paine, who
!! de his fortune as banker and
jker In Boston. Mr.. Paine, says
Aulby, did not wish the "old mas.
ters TO pass into other hands anG
reacily agreed TO buy all forty OF
them. Mr. Paine and his widow after
him We're only too glad, d'Aulby IN.
sists, 10 pay/the price he asked-$l0,
OVV agar. enough for him TO live
o9H continue his musical stud.
Tic kndws as much about music as
art liz. father sent him TO Italy
study thSAformer, and he exploited
Is knowledge OF music during his
rst visit to America when he au-
)unccc that hc was about To give
pera in New York.
D'Aulby asserts, half gleefully, hair
ialiciously, that he wrote several
a'Sical compositions in collabora.
CT" with Mrs. Paine. All in the
,aerican colony who thronged the
zine mansion. which was the Old
erry home, remember the musicales
tven by Mrs. Paine when II was an.
sunced that the orchestra would play
t. compositions OF the hostess.
:. Sc friends ere wondering how
!. i..h. OF hose compositions was due
o Nthe genius OF d'Aulby and how
Guch TO Mrs. Paine.
Mrs. Paine, IL Is said, has not been
Farls since the disclosures follow
ng d'Aulby's arrest. Her house is
pen. but the great windows fronting
IN the avenue are closed and the
servants answer inquiries with the
curt response;
Mime Paine Is not in the city"
'Coh' tess" q Aulby, who was Miss
ranAesca Luht, Ct Boston. has been
ii:Ced at liberty Professionally. IL Is
4 she r. in Paris. but her friends
re not seen her. They credit i'll.
= r.tly her fearful assertion at Tours
4 she believed her husband, whom
re married in Trinity church, New
nrk. TO be a nobleman and his paint
x, S, 'heirlooms," tc Se genuine.
Questioned further by the exaInin-
iag magistrate. d'Aulby denied that lie
revived the ancient Order OF Merit of
MelisilS st instituted in 1870 by
the...tt' Jerusalem, head OF the
4. 60. n, |signan d'Outre Mer. D'Aul-
~ J. 49,, That the order was resusci-
s&~sZby one Kafta, a Levantine, a
fort1 member OF the Maronite order,
which Ne. Crusaders established. kaf-
Ia, according to the romantic or 30.
mancing dAulby, claimed his wife
was descended from Guy de Lusignan
,alorous Crusader. Kafta called her
'ncess OF Lusignan, of Cyprus. OF
usalem. and of Armenia. kafta
ssumed to be Prince Of Lusignan
appointed d'Aulby secretary gen.
N OF the Order OF Melusine.
che tailor's son admitted that ne
~. worn the wonderful uniform Of
- order at the opera and theater
\ n 4 at his wedding. when he donncd
It his wife'3 special request. DAui-
4 says he took the name OF de Gatlg-
from an old woman, the last OF
name. who died in France and
$40 was distant relative. lie
i AXIS in his testimony OF a vague
rcestor in England who, he feels
!, tie sure. was the descendant Of a
ike.
he affair promises to last several
aeks before the court gives a de-