The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-20
Fund Is Result of Duel Tough,
Half Century
az Ia MAnQUIsE DIE EoNTENoY.

~ which is accommodating all the
time at compound interest, is
lying on deposit in the French State
institution known as the Galssc des
Depots ct des CONSIDERATIONS, In Paris.
awaiting missing claimant.
Some fifty years ago or more a Paris
Journalist Of the name OF Horace Dill
lon. wrote something sarcastic in lie
Main Jeunc, which has since become
the Figaro, about the due dc Gram
nont-Cadcroussc. an enormously rich
nob)cman OF ancient lineage who used
to manifest his contempt for tho Ma
poleonic empire, by paradinS as easy
conuucsts. the wives of tho minister's
OF state and of the dignitarlcs of the
court Of the Tuilcrice.
The duke. in consequence or this
newspaper article. challenged Dillon
to a duel. and was unfortunate enough
TO XII him. He was acquitted of
course. of tho charge OF l,o,nic!dc but
was condemned to pay an annuity OF
some 10000 francs a year to tho widow
and after her to her three sons. The
widow died in 1866. and the two elder
sons within the following decade. The
third son disappeared and has never
been heard of since
The annuity has gone on pilins Up.
Five years ago the trustees in charge
OF the estate of the duke invoked the
statut Of limitations; but this was
denied by the courts on the. ground
tnat the payment each year by the cs-
tate of tho amount into tho Caissc des
Dcpots ct des Consign;Ations and tho
Official receipt given by the director
thereof kept the debt alive. Conse-
quently that the period by the statute
OF linita tons could not he regarded
as beginning until tho year OF tho ap-
plication to the tribunals.
Meanwhile. all this time the money
has gone OF accumul;ItinS at COM
pound interest. and now amounts to
a very large sum. which Is at the dis
posal of any one who can furnish to
the Caissc dos pepots ct dos Consigna-
tions in Paris proofs to tho effect that
he is the heir of tho missing son OF
Horace Dillon
Grammont- Caderouss, In spite or
his extraordinary extravaganza and his
mania for gambling, left fortune OF
near s4.oo0,00o, bequeathing, the major
portion of 1t To the physician who had
attended him professionally during the
closing years of his life AS the
French code does not permit medical
or spiritual advisers to benefit by leg
actcs made by those whom they adj
wise. the will was thereby invalidatcd
and tho fortune went to the dukes
next of kin, namely, to tho families of
fTacomtol and dlvry, greatly to the
disgust of two women. each OF whom
had been deeply infatuated by the
duke and who expected to inherit his
wealth.
One was that eccentric Duchcssc dc
PcrsiGny, wife OF Napoleon JIls Fidus
Achates and Minister OF State. and
who was recalled from tho post of am
bassador to the court OF st. James on
the pressing request of Queen Victoria
who had been Mortified by the duchess's
misconduct. and especially by her be-
havior In deliberately slapping the
face of woman who had appeared in
exactly the same dress as hcrs at a
ball at which she, the Queen. was pres
cnt. Tho other disappointed woman
was the notorious Partisan demic-
mondainc Blanche d'Antigny, whose
songs bcwitchcd khedivc Ismail at
Cairo who died of smallpox In the
leading hotel in Paris and who is por-
trayed by Emile lola as Mana" In his
famous novel of that name.
Lord Ashby ST. Leger, who has just
been appointed by King George to be
one of his lords in waiting and :, mon,