The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-22

and his full name would be Baron
Muller Won Frankenberg. But be-
coming ashamed of the bourgeois
name of Muller he would gradually
drop it, at any rate in social usage,
and style himself Baron Won Frank
enberg," which had much more pa
trician sound about it.
Old Baron Edward Oppenheim, on
arriving on one. occasion at Nice and
finding that one of his fellow Ger
man bankers and friends had thus
inscribed himself on the hotel regis
ter, wrote himself down in turn, not
as Baron Oppenheim of Cologne" but
as Baron o de Cologne"
The death at Abb, in the south of
France, of old Count Charles de Tou-
louse-Lautrec at the age of nearly 80,
knight Grand Cross of the Papal
Order. of st. Gregory the Great, a
knight of the Sovereign Order of NAL
ia and a member of the French
Jockey Club, serves to recall the trou-
| BILE, annoyance and humiliation to
which he was subjected 10 or 5 years
ago by the assumption of his name
and title by the notorious Russian ad-
|
trated the most extraordinary swindles
and frauds of originality, daring and
magniture in the United States, in
| Central and South America, in Great
| Britain and in Germany.
The house of the De Toulouse-Lau-
trees is one of the most ancient and
iIlustrious of the south of France, is
allied to the De Turannes, to the De
| Rohans, to the Sabrars, to the De La
| Rochefoucaulds, to the Bissacs, ETC.,
and why Savine should have pitched
upon this particular name. as q cloak
for his criminal career no one has
ever been able to explain.
What helped Savine in no small de-
gree to maintain his assumption of the
name of De Toulouse-Lautre was that
when in April, 1898, he took out his
first papers of American citizenship
in the Illinois Circuit Court, before
Judge Gibbons, solemnly renouncing
his allegiance to the Gar and surren-
dering the title of count (Which had
never belonged to him), the docu-
ments were made out in the name OF
De Toulouse-Lautrec 1t was on the
strength of this confirmation by the
United States government of his name
of De Toulouse-Lautre that he tray
elled.
, This did not prevent, however, the
French courts in July, 1902, annulling
his marriage to the unfortunate Mile
Clemence Vervoort, daughter of re,
l spectacle and well-to-do parents il
France, on the ground that in wed
: ding her he had Intentionally deceiv
ed her by falsely representing him
: self to be Count de Toulouse-Lau
tree and a scion OF that well known
house of the French nobility, will
which, the tribunal established, Sa
vine had never had even the remotes
relationship.
Savine, who was repeatedly impris
oned in France came from an untitled
family of the Russian petite noblesse
> served as a Second Lieutenant of cav
airy in the Cars army, from whicl
he was cashiered for fraud, and the
> embarked upon his career of crime
. the result of which was the placin
: of his portrait in the rogues gallerie
of nearly every civilized country o
= the world.
Repeatedly arrested, convicted an
; consigned to Jail in Russia and abroa
, he became celebrated as a Jail break
or, some of his escapes being of tn
:. most daring description, while his &C
lossal impudence may be gagged b
the fact that although an ex-convic
=" and known to the police all over EuI
= | ope, he actually induced Dictate
. Stambouloff in 1887 to consider quit
- seriously for the space of six week
his candidature to the throne of Bu
. garia before being quite accidental
:" unmasked..