The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-16
Opened Negotiations With
Morgan & Co. for Big
Loan
SAID SPAIN WAS
GOING INTO WAR
S15-a-Week Clerk Was Pressing His
Claim for s5o,ooo,ooo When Chance
Brought About His Arrest On Anoth-
err CharCe


prouobt About His Arrest On Anoth- !
q ohaise'
NEW YORK, Feb. l6.-How a SD |
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Rousselot dl Castlllot, cohndehuai rep
resentatiye of his majesty, King Al
fonso XIII of Snain = opeped repotia
-, IL y
lions WIN '"o '"ii -,
Morgan Co, for loan OF T9o'ooo'ooV'
and by promising that Spain would en-
taY tho war ON the side Of the entente
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to the matter was rev odled III '"e le0
/ eI&l court vesterday when three III
/ dictments were returned against Ed
,,on1 Rousea1ot r,dar ti,c p,nionore
! houSseio' "'' pressing M P."''
the loan when chance caused MS an
rest on another charge, and MS castles
! in Spain quickly toppled. William
p;ors,,, tIor,;I+o, If A. Noro.n house
-, -, 80 .,- - ;,7,,. Ill,
was ''e'''"h VI '''e g anu '.,''&
returned the indictments ana was Ia
miliar with the entire transaction be
! cause ne was the member of the firm
to whom the matter vas intrusted.
When the subject OF the loan was
preached TO the bank by Rousselot, who
had been introduced by w +. y.
Stokes Of New York city, the bank
Immediately communicated with soeerr-
tarT Lansing, who opposed the loan -
the spanish government through an IN
divldual and suggested that II be taken
NJ through the TrguLar government
channels Rousselot objected TO TINS
method Of procedure. explaining thal
tn" loan was I" he made personally 20
King Alfonso, and 1t was because OF
this secret arrangement that ne could
promise that Spain was to join the az
lies
The negotiations were stiH undeF
way when Rousselot about three weeks
ago was arrested on the charge Of
falsely representing himself as Count
Rousselot, ! French diplomat here on
: i secret mission, and being unable 70
obtain bail was sent to jail. This led
, to inquiry, and the whole matter wa,
laid before the grand iurv
It DEVELOPED that Rousselot had not
confined his operations to banking
houses but numbered among his con.
| fdinr friends one woman from whom
he had borrowed 10000 on oil stoke
1 Of doubtful value hut for the redemp-
- tion Of which he had pledged his IAN
1 ,estral estate
: Another of his friends was proH,i
; mcnt actress, who told the authoritic,
/ she had been introduced to '.Count
/ RouSselot" and believing him 10 be il
the French diplomati. service had visit
ed an English warship in the harhol
= with him. As his credentials wer,
. well covered with seals which aaemel
= TO he HI RIGHT they were taken owe,
e tho ship ana shown every courtesy. sh,
II said. She admitted giving him an an
2 toeraphod photograph. which was Iater
G fond in his effects on the promise thg-
4 II would soon he with him SON III,
Il hattie front IN France
e Rnnssnlot with tho money 4a.urr.
from tho oil stocks established him
!. Golf II . a,,i+e II . fashiorahIe bota
4 ond +bara rece;vod non,, 1a+tar., NE,
4 oro doocrihod os hoina :. ,.o,,orod ,,.;+l
5 crests and seals and addressed r. hin
4 as .smornn;s count ), ..I,inr,s moe
Il -nltUpi. -
= These documents when examined i,
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# COM, fro,a tho ki,,o ~ Sna;n haro
,e bio rod saaI inn,nesed In. ~ o+,m
= of the commissioner II 3nads of W.
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rubber stamp bearing the words. :. Mil