Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-03
COUNT AUGUST De
SEYMORE IS DEAD
[Continued From First Pagcl
two and then come out of it as rich
as Rockefeller.
The Count Left Town

two and then come out of it as rich
as Rockefeller.
The Count Left Town
of the police.
The story printed in the Sun Is as
follows;
New Rochelle, N. Y. Jan. Ed
ward Stetson Griffing. who became
mayor of New Rochelle to-day, re-
ceived in his first batch of official cor
respondence telegram from DIR. Il.
+. Daley, of Eliza abethtown, KY, an
nouncing the death of Count August
Schaefelysky de Mukkadel de Castel-
lane Seymore, of New York, Paris,
San Francisco and New Rochelle.
The telegram said that the count
died on Wednesday as the result of a
elf-administered injection of a sus-
pended animation culture.
Friends in New Rochelle said that
he was greatly interested in suspended
animation and that he had read much
OF Hindu lore on the subject. The
theory held by. the count was that a
drug obtained from a certain Russian
plant would produce a suspension of
activity in the human organism to
such an extent as to deceive the most
practiced eye. To all appearance the
person would be dead. In the circum-
stances 1t is believed here that no
burial service will be held until suffi-
cient time has elapsed to demonstrate
the error of the counts theory.
Where He Would BE Buried
The message told the counts de-
sire to be buried near Tom Paine, who
Is believed by some persons to be in
tered here. Henry M. Lester, presi-
dent of the Huguenot Association,
which owns the old Tom Paine house
near the Tom Paine monument, says
that the body Of the distinguished
philosopher and writer is not here at
all. He says it was stolen more than
hundred years ago and taken to
England.
Count Seymore left New Rochelle
last fall to ride on horseback to San
Francisco with the intention Of
preaching religion devised by HIM
self. This was not the only startling
announcement made by the count.
Just before Christmas a year ago he
made 1t known that an aunt of his
had died in France, leaving him and
his sister $500, 900, but the sister re-
fused to sign the legacy papers until
the count married an American wom-
an. He therefore advertised immedi-
ately for a gray-haired widow who
had brains. He said her age didn't
matter.
Didn't Find the Woman
HE was at that time gathering data
for a book on fashions, manners and
courtesies and while he studied these
matters he looked for that kind Of a
woman. In addition to the gray hair
and brains he insisted that his future
spouse should neither smoke nor drink
and that the delicacies of her ear
should never respond to words of gos-
sin He didn't find the woman,
Some time before this the count
announced in Troy, n. Y, his belief
that death was only long sleep and
that any man had right to seek his
rest when he felt like It, He therefore
contemplated the establishment of a
hotel for suicides where the weary
might come and lie down forever. He
would have rooms with or without
meaning with or without crematory
accommodations. Instead of baths
there would be urns. All who regis
tered would pay in advance, with ex-
ira charges for incineration.
FOuquieres Never Heard of Him
when Andre de FouquiereS came
from Paris to introduce the Venetian
spirit into American functions, to put
the turkey trot out Of business and to
make the tango as popular as it is in
certain quarters of Argentina, some
one asked him If he had ever heard Of
Count August Schaefelysky de Mukka-
del de Castellane Seymore. The great
est dandy in the world replied that he
had not. Whereupon Count August
was with difficulty restrained from de-
Gliding he would challenge his coun-
tryman to a. duel, He exclaimed with
great heat that Andre de Fouquieres
trod on his toes.
THE counts last public appear
ance was in the City Court, where he
was charged with assault, it being
alleged that he had thrown a pan OF
water on woman who came to col
lect a bill OF 65 cents"