The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-04-12
CHAS. E. CARBONEAU
Is IN TROUBLE AGAIN
En- Waiter Who Married "k lon
dixie Queen" Arrested
in France.
DRAG IN THE M\DEROS
MrXican> Said to Have Been
Connected With Mythical
Railway Scheme.
DRAG IN THE MADEROS
>D,t,l' ,dLis Despatch 10 Tur sr>


PARIS. April 1l--Charles Eugene car
boncau. formerly Of Quebec. was ar
rested Al BouloGne-surMer to-day
while on his way from London to
Paris He was accompanied by a tif-
teen year-od girl who. he said. was
his daughter. Al the same time the
Paris office of the iIugra cucnca
Railway Company Of Ecuador, OF
which it is said he is the promoter. was
searched and all papers and funds
seized
The examination disclosed the fact. it
is said, that the Madero brothers of
Mexico were at the head OF a gigantic
scheme which was planned in con-
junction with projected railway in
Central Mexico. The bonds OF this COM
panv We're issued by Henri RoChette,
the French banker, whose condemnation
TO Imprisonment for alleged crooked
transactions in France and his failure
to appear in court recently aroused
much interest.
Both Of these railways exist only IN
the Imagination and the case against
At' BrOliibAfl - sun III luc
courts. Carboneau. ii is alleged. issued
&c, 900 bonds of the Hugra -CuenCa Rail
way Company on April and realized
$1,000 therefrom. 1t Is said that
Carbonetu has already been in difficult
ties with the Canadian and French au-
thorlties and that he was condemned
in connection with the failure of the
Gold Run mining scheme to two years
imprisonment The losses of the vic
tins in that case amounted to several
million dollars. There is said to he "A
further charge against him involving
hundreds of thousands of dollars which
will be pressed now that his identity
has been established
As long ago as 1906 Count Charles
T.. Carboneau, as he was known and as
lie STYLED himself, was in trouble in
Philadelphia. where u" was charged
with Kidnapping his sister n-law. Agnes
Mulrooney. An automobile. pistol shots
and detectives figured in the case and
Iarhoneau and the girl were finally
caught at the Bellevue Stratford Car
boneau AT the time described himself
as a commissioner in banking seCur.-
ties and gave addresses in Paris Lon
don and New York II" was released
in court next day. but the arrest re
called stories OF Carboneau's adventures
in the klondilie in the golden DAYS of
9s and '99.
II was in 1895 that Carboneau, known
already as the Count" went to Daw-
son city. 1t was said that he came
from Montreal, where he had been I,
waiter. He had little money. but his
pleasing manners made friends and il
wasn't long before he had acquired
rights in promising claims He found
a quicker way to fortune. however by
marrying Belinda Mulrooney, owner of
the hotel at the iuncture of the Edo
rado and Bonanza creeks and holder of
claims to many valuable properties The
wedding celebration is stli talked OF by
Dawson's old timers.
At the time OF Tn" kidnapping Agnes
Murooney said that her sister had be
gun divorce proceedings but in 1917 il
was as Mrs. Belinda tarboneau that the
former "klond!ke queen" sued Tiffany
< GO. for jewclry valued. she said at
sll ,io< which she had stored with the
company so that the Count" from whom
she had parted could not get them. lie
did get them, Il seemed, and while the
company paid Mrs Carboneau $500 said
to be the value named when the iewelry
was deposited. she sued for the differ
"nco between that and $ll,454 At the
same time she brought action against
Revillun Freres for So, 400 worth of firs
which her husband had also succeeded
IN getting after she had stored them
Al that time Mrs. tarboncau said that
when she married Carboneau she had
believed him to he French count, but
had learned that his polished manners
were acquired in Montreal restaurant
She had left him. It was said, In the fall
OF 1904 and had come to New York
Carboneau followed, and learning of his
presence in the city she stored her jew
elry and furs before returning To the
hlondike To look out for her mining in
terests. When she came back she
learned that Carboneau had procured
both jewelry and furs and had dis
appeared.