The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-16
FAKE MARQUIS
BILKED WOMAN
HERE OF $4,000
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Friends say that size became &C
quainted with him when he sold her
some Oil stock for $4,000, and from
subsequent events it appears as if
this is tho case.
When he sold the stock to the
Bridgeport woman, he apparently had
some fear az detection for to further
assure her he gave her a written
claim on the ancestral relics of the
de Castillo family" in case the oil
stock was not satisfactory. 49,.
Apparently Rousselot followed up
the sale of the oil stock with a per-
sistent love suit for, although Miss
Mayher discovered that the stock was
valueless she still continued to cher
ish a feeling which, although it could
not be described as the 'grande pas
sion," yet was bordering on the edge
of romance. Miss Mayher is in the
neighborhood of so years of age
while the object of her infatuation
gives his age as 80, although he does
not look more than rs.
When living in Bridgeport, Miss
Mayher was one of the most popular
of all the smart set and counted heT
friends by the score. Since leaving
here she has entertained in a lavish
manner in New York and her socia
activities have the substance of many
columns of news from the metropo'
lis. She has figured prominently
also in the social life of the European
capitals.
S-1i ara o& cd
yesterday by the Federal grand jury
against RousseFot, who admits posing
along Broadway as a Marquis" The
first Indictment charges Rousselot
with having posed as a member OF
the French War Commission to the
United States It also charges him
with posing as a Spanish diplomat
and of using the mails to defraud W.
E. d. Stokes, the millionaire hotel
proprietor.
/ The second indictment charges the
bogus marquis with forging a United
States Customs waterfront war zone
pass which served to admit him to
piers where important war activities
were in progress. The third indict-
ment charges him with the theft Of
| United States Treasury Department
stationery.
One of the persons questioned by
Assistant United States Attorney Law.
renee Amman, in his effort to ferret
out the details Of the young man:
Broadway activities, was Marjorie
| Rambeau, the motion picture actress
who said she had been deceived ID!
the military uniform which the mai
wore.
The foreman of the grand jury tina
returned the indictments was vii
liam Pierson Hamilton, Jr., of thu
firm of J. P. Morgan and Company
Mr.. Hamilton gained a personal IN
sight into Rousselots methods through
the young mans efforts to negotiate
a. loan Of $5O,0OO,COO which he repre-
sented was for the King of Spain
Morgan & Co. communicated wit
the State Department in Washington
and Secretary Lansing frowned upo
the project insisting that all negotia
tions for loans should come through
the State Department and be directl
between the United States and SPAR
This latter stand was taken upon tn
contents Of a fake letter supposed t
come from the King of Spain t
Rousselot, guaranteeing the entranc
of Spain into the world war on tn
side of the Allies if the loan of $50,
100000 could be negotiated to re
plenish the depleted privy purse Q
the king.
Rousselot extracted $500 from tn
pocketbook of W. E. D. Stokes b
showing him a communication sup
posedly from the French ambassado
whom he was to meet in New York
He was agitated and apparently I
great distress as he had no fund
handy with which to entertain tn
representative of the French nation
Stokes let him have five crisp ne!
century notes without hesitation jus
to tide him over little, luncheo
party.