The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-06-11
BOGUS EARL LURES
MAID ACROSS SEA
Man Of Mystery Is Sought In
Mainland On White Slave
Charge

SAN FRANCISCO, May PA man
Of mystery, with many names and titles,
ranging from plain Gerald Fitzgerald
to the Earl Of Glennconner and the
Duke of Northumberland, is being
sought by the federal authorities for
violating the white slave act, the com.
plant having been made yesterday by
Miss Clara Mograntine, whom he de-
serted after bringing her from Manila
on the promise Of marriage. The
couple reached San Francisco on the
Teuyo MarIi and Registered rs man and
wife at the Cliff Hotel, where they re.
NAMED until the day of his disappear
nnre.
The romance Of Miss Mograntine
started when she passed through San
Francisco last February as governess
to the children of Mrs. +. J. Wilson,
who was formerly the Countess de Bots
& Lucy, and whose child recently died Of
smallpox while in quarantine at Angel
Island, when the party returned from
the Orient.
! On board the Sierra was Gerald Fit2-
gerald, a young Englishman with polish
and charming manners. He paid her
court and was in constant attendance.
Failed as an Earl
After the Sierra had left San Fran.
cisco the identity of Gerald Fitzgerald
had been cabled to Honolulu, and when
he stepped ashore he was met by news
paper men, who hailed him as the Earl
of GlenncOTneT.. the title he had been
given in the eablegrams
When he returned to the Sierra,
said Miss Mograntine, last night, Mr..
Fitzgerald dismissed what happened by
saving the title is wrong, but the facts
are right. -
As the steamer plowed her way west.
ward Fitzgerald played with the Will
son children and helped Miss Mogran-
tine in her teaching. They were al,
WAYS together, and as Japan was neared
ne spoke of love and asked her to leave
her employment and marry him. She
turned a deaf ear TO his passionate
Headings, stayed at her post of dnty
continuing to Manila. They parted nj
Yokohama, as she thought, forever.
Elopes from Manila
Mise MOgrantine found conditions
with the Wilson's not altogether salts
factory after she reached the Philip
pines She had taken employment
after coming ont of the University OF
Michigan, Ann Arbor, seeing their ad'
Vertisement for a governess in the Mil
waukec newspapers.
When in deepest despair in Manila
far from home and unhappy, Miss
MOgrantine was surprised to receive
letter from Fitzgerald, stating he
was coming to Manila. When he
reached there he again, according IA
Miss Mograntine, made love to her and
finally persuaded her to elope. Z
This they did, going to Hongkong
Here she insisted on their marriage
but he said he wanted to be married
on English soil, urging her to continue
with him to Vancouver. Miss Mogran
tine lid not know she was then or
English soil From there they sailed
for Yokohama. where passage was late
taken on the Tenyo Maru for this port
Claims to Be Noble
1.-TWO days out from San Francisco,
said Miss Mograntine, che told M
that mis- true name was Alan de Cor
teret. and that he belonged to tn,
British nobility, saying he had KEEP
this from me because he wanted m
TO love him for what he was worth a
a man and not because of his title
2 At other times he limited at his title o
the Duke of Northumberland. -
All Of his rings, stationery, linen an
+ clothing were marked with ducal sig
+ with a griffin. and bore the French in
scrption 'SOyez Farme," meanin
d "Be Steadfast. He had abundanc
of money, it all being in English eOlC
n While in Honolulu he produced sewers
r thousand pounds in gold.
l. When he deserted Miss Mograntin
+ he secured IA room for her at the Sun
. merton Hotel. From there she went I
l. the home Of Mrs. F. w. Breaker, los
Post street, whom she met on tn
d steamer.