The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-01-15

.GlC1sISan company got ITS cn3rVcr TIT
Michigan securities commission re
Qrired that the company, during its
saook-selling activities, should deposit
/ So per cent of its stock sale proceeds
In joint account between the com
aipany and the commission But Dun
/ blame" through accident or mistake
or other reason, opened up accounts
of his own. In particular he had one
account at st, Ignace, Mich, and in
particular he spent from there the
of a stock subscription by Mary E.
Miller, one of the several who sub
seQueatly laid charges of theft by
embezzlement
| 1t was a long tszne before Dun
blane's'' subscribers became suspf
issued simultaneously in Michigan
and in London and Aylmer Ont. ii
WIS, however, Sheriff Weaver OF
Cbarleyoix who located "Dunblane'
and the Countess" living in La Co
roma hotel, Montreal. The Earl reg
|
marty. "Dunblane" did not fight sa1-
! tradition but returned Immediately to
| eyhamevoix for trial
| Admits the Facts
AT the trial ''Dunblane" admitted
the FACTS concerning the Mary %.
Mixer subscrln&ion. He had acted in
ignorance, he said. He said many
other things, but he was convicted
and sentenceds&o from two and a half
to five years
VT is estimated that, all told, stDun-
blame" sold $4,000 Of stock.
There is still much mystery about
his past, butsso far as cam be learned
he was born in Aberdeen of poor Rar-
eIss. AS a child he ram around the
streets with NO shoes or stockings, his
clothes in ttatters. Developing a
mania for reading he made himself
what he is today, man Of learning
'aad culture.
AT twenty-five married Scotchwom-
Z an, who became Christina sGrieg.
Trey dwelt m Aberdeen. Several
years passed and several children
blessed the union. Grieg and his fam
lily then moved to Nottingham, where
: he formed his first association with
Fthe insurance business. He appears
! to ahave had some dealings with the
Scottish Union and National Insur-
lance company, but he was not there
long. In the witness box he said that
F.! he slad assisted Sir Herbert Croft to
organize another insurance company
there.
Ten years ago Grieg appeared In
Canada. He established himself as
barTdster at Moose Jaw. He bought
600-acre farm in Saskatchewan, he
bought 10000 prairie acres near Re
gina. In 1914 ne had filled such
place in Moose Jaw society that he
ran for mayor, but received only 81
votes About that time he became In
'volved in a deal over lot titles and
qnit-ciaim deeds.
On tire Move.
He was arrested allowed out ON
bail, and departed hurriedly for points
east He turned up in Lowell, Mass.
Here he lived with an elder brother,
and here he brought his family from |
Scotland. Here he organized another |
insurance company But again he !
moved suddenly.
Next his family ARE heard of at
Ann Arbor, Mich, and then they came
70 Toronto
iGrieg himself says his mothers
name was Christina TAFT Milne, his
fathers Alexander. marquis of Dun
}Iane. To a Toronto Star reporter
he said he was an NJ A. from Aber-
1een, "a bachelor of-law from Edin-
1urgh, a fellow of the Engineering
Institute of Scotland, and a fellow
If tine Royal Scottish Geographical
society
Books of reference show that the
title Eiscount Dunblane belongs to
he earl of Leeds. In the witness box
irieg said his mothers father was the
brother of the earl of Leeds.
The fact was not recorded in Burke's
'eerage, but it should be, he said
Rave you hobnobbed with royalty? y
sked the prosecutor. Il have asso-
lated with noblemen,' replied Grieg ,
18th dignity. :
Wise as Father
In court in the presence Of the
Countess, Grieg was asked about t
is Toronto wife and family. There t
as some confusion as to how many /
the eight children are his. Even L
Tally he told the judge Christina V
REG was fwenty-eight and had tour a
lildren when he married her. D
The status of his marriage to the b
Countess" or of his previous mar v
age to Christina has not yet been t.
fciaily inquired into. although Fl
ldge Sample, when sentencing Greg.
1t It on record that he wished al
cations of bigamy and of perjury to
investigated. 81
Christina Grieg resolutely refused O.
go to Charlevoix from Toronto for W
e trial. To reporters she gave the ii
preston of suffering from shock, p
d expressed the greatest incrednIity dl
ncerning the revelation about her in