Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-22
ASTOR A FRIEND
OF FAKE MARQUIS
NOW IN CUSTODY
Roo-ovelt's Name Also
Found in List of Addresses
Kept in Book.
YOUNG ADVENTURE
MAY GET 20 YEARS
Assumed Title of Marquis
After Getting $4,000
From Miss Mayher.

New York, Feb. 19-"Senor Don
Rousselot, Marquis Edmond di Cas-
tillot' (for that's the way the name
is written on the. royal commission
granted to Edmond Rousselot, the
one-time SIS a week telephone oper-
ator, by his intimate friend King
Alphonso XIII. of SPAIN, will be ar
raigned in the criminal branch of the
federal court on Tuesday.
There he will answer to the in
dictment which charges him with i'm
personating an official of the French
government, with forgery of a Unit
ed States government pass to docks,
warships and ferries, with the larceny
of treasury department stationery and
with obtaining $500 under false pre-
tense from W. E. D. Stokes of the
Hotel Ansonia-
Had Prominent Friends.
The Marquis it was said, num-
! bered among his acquaintances-at
| least, that is what the 'Senor Dom
| claims-a score or two of the best
known men in New York. Likewise
it was officially asserted that he serv-
ed term in the Brixton prison, near
London, before transferring to the
American field OF action. It was also
said that there is reason to believe
that he was in trouble in France be-
fore emigrating to England in 1910,
| but definite evidence to this effect has
| not yet reached this country from
| the American agents in France.
Edmond Rousselot, which is the
rightful name of the young man in
the Tonnbs, was born i'll the south of
France about 80 years ago, His
parents were highly respectable and
also, according to the best informa-
ton obtainable on this side, very
poor. The boy never had any edu-
cational advantages, but attended the
village schools in his ea-ly teens and
served his preliminary tour in the
French army.
At the end of his army service he
went to England. This was early in
1910. In England he was sentenc-
ell to something more thnn a year il
Brixton for larceny, according to the
Information now in the possession OF
the authorities. In 1912 Rousselo1
arrived in New York, and within g
few weeks after he landed secured
employment from the New YorF
Telephone Co For two years he
worked for the telephone people, and
in due course of time he became ar
expert switchboard operator.
From the time he quit the employ
of the telephone company in 1912 IN
til about three months ago the rec
ords are not clear as to the career O.
the marquis"
Got $4,000 from Woman.
The documentary evidence now il
the possession of the federal govern
ment indicates that "Senor Don Rous
selot's" meteor started to travel a
about the time he was introduced t.
Miss Josephine Mayher, the elderl.
woman from whom he obtained LOAF
of $4,000, for which loan he pledg
ed certain stock in an oil concern
$ of his own making. Miss Mayher, i
may be said still believes in tn
, marquis" and recently pleaded witt
federal official to let him go.
. The loan obtained from her doe
| not figure in the case, however, an
, so her plea was of no avail. 1t wa
/ Immediately after the Mayher loal
that Rousselot assumed the title 0
: Marquis Castillot," and shortly there
d after began to spread the report tina
: he was an intimate friend Of tn
a Spanish King and was in this countr
s as the personal attache of his ma
u jesty."