The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-11-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FRENCH "LADY-KILLER'S"  CAREER.  ROMANTIC REVELATIONS.  The forthcoming trial of the Freneh maven. turer, Prado, alias Count Linake. promises to reveal an extraordinary career of crime. The villain appears to possess a marvellous tensity of faseinstieg the fair and belle daughters of Eve. lie hies also proved himself one of the most impudent impoators of the day. After having served with the Cachets Prado went to Peru, and in Lima he married a lady who brought him a dowry of £48.000. The lady died suddenly, and Prado, who had gambled away £3.6.000 of the dowry, wee sent away from Lima by the lady's family. The Count uext appeared at Oporto, in Portugal, where he robbed a jeweller's shop, and entered the place again a few weeks after in order to leave a letter for ehe jeweller on his counter, and in which communicae Coe the burglar coolly told his victim to look carefully after the nisce. From Oporto Prod() reet to Madrid, where he opened a gambling saloon, cheated a lot oi Greeks supposed to be at sharp as himself out of a large sum of money, and got £2.009 from a venerable senora of sixty, to whom he made love. In 1879 he married Dolores Garces y Me,rcilla, said to be descended from the kings of Arragem She brought him £7,000, and io now &reeving in a carrel, in Madrid. In 1883 P 3 cause to Paris, where he made the iteeusintanoe of Eugenie Forester, who hag given most incriminating information against him. Marie Agnetan wee murdered in circumstances which have aireedy been detailed, in Jenuary, 1886, and immediately after the crime Prado left Paris suddenly. Forestier was in the meantime struck by the deacription of the presumed murderer which was given in the papers, Lilt being fond of the fellow she hesitated before communicating her suspicions to the police. Prado went to bordesex, where he met a young woman named Couronneau, whom he seduced under premise of marriage. In Pordeaux he stole £4OO from a jeweller, and, retureine, to Paris be boldly annexed diamonds and precious stones worth £10,01:0, from M. Lorenzo, slats a jeweller. That operation, howeter, coat Prado his liberty, and perhaps his lie, for he was arrested after a struggle with the police, one of whom he wounded. Shortly afterwards a whole Land of his accomplices, male and limalo, and of varions nationalities, was likewise covered. Fesienie Forestier gave the police indications respect. ing Marie Aguetani jewellery, some of winch was given to her by Prado and SC,M3 sold in Madrid. In December, 1837, Prado wrote from Mazes Prison to Foreetier, asking her to save him, and promising that he would then devote his life to her. This is regarded by the judges as tantamount to an acknowledgment of the crime; but in any case, tho webe have been drawn tightly around the accused, and he is not likely to b. able to clear hirnaelf. In the meantime, the detectives have arrested twelve swiecilers in the South of Prance who belonged to the Catusse, and probably to the Ailmayer, band. Among them is a woman named Flora, who was well known to tho gamblers of Monte Carlo. larisians will therefore have a number of attractions in the shape of eensatiorial trials during the ensuing month.