Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1888-11-03 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF CRID&E..  France is rarely long without one of those criminals of infamous genius who run their course of adventare, robbery, and murder, and at length get naught in come one affair of nefarious enterprise that affords society the opportunity to glance back at their cart or. One Parado is about to be brought to had as the seemed:l oft woman named Marie Aguetant. Totally irrespective of strong evidence on the charge which he has to answer, his dossier is more romantic in fact than any invention of the novelist. He is supposed to be Count Lindy' de Castillion, yet where he got his patent of nobility from it might be ditlicalt to prove. The story goes indeed that he is the eon of Nap leon UI., and that his mother was a lady of the Court. At thirteen years of age he was at school at Gijon, and an elderly lady in Mack used to wait capon him. As a recompense for these attentione tha Count robbed his putative mother of her jewels and ran away. The money he thus obtained enabled him to travel round the globe. He halted at Calcutta, Hong. Kong, Ban Francisco, Hayti, and New York. The rebellion under Don Carlos broke out in Spain and the Count became lieutenant on the insurgent side. The pollee have ascertained that daring • lull in the fighting he took a trip into France and obtained 8,000 francs by robbery. But he returned in time to do gallant service at the Beige of San Sebastian. He was taken prisoner and sentenced to be shot, bat his life was spared by the Governor. Soon afterwards he was wounded in the battle of Somnoroetro, and he married a Sister of Charity, who nursed him, and with whom he made s tour to Jerusalem, Palestine, Syria, and Eygyt. She died at Ischia, and the dark suspicion rests upon him that he poisoned her. He visited Cuba, and in Havana enriched himself by clever daylight robberies in the Waite. He returned to Europe, but was soon heard of in Peru, where he married a iady in Lima who brought him 1,200,0001. dowry IA child wits born, but both child and mother soon , died, the latter very suddenly. On the very day I his wife was buried the Count loot 400,000 Imes in gambling. He was next heard of in Mosambigne I and Madagascar, and then in Madrid, where he , opened • gambling house, and won 200,000 francs I in one day by cheating with a false roulette table. !He also distinguished himself by marrying a I, Spanish Marebionees eighty years old, from whom he obtained 80,000 francs in presents. His mania for marrying soon afterward* was , further illustrated by his union in 1879 at Madrid " with a beautiful lady named Dolores Games y IMaroilla, who slammed descent from the Kings of Aragon. Her dowry was 170,000 francs. She has I now the unspeakable mortification of being 'blob • lately in want, living in • garet and deserted by the man she loved. In 1883 he resumed his career of crime in Paris, and was, as usual, successful. He began bnisness as a chemist, and swindled his partner of all he possessed. By frequenting plaoes I of amusement he became acquainted with Madame Agnetant, who had a considerable amount of jewellery and 100,000 francs in money. She was found in her room brutally murdered on the I morning of January 15th, 1886, and her money and ' valuables had been stolen by the assassin. Within a few days the Count quitted Paris, and was heard of in Portugal, but in the autumn he was in Bordeaux, where he made love to the daughter of a Madame Couronneau, and after betrothal, seduced her and abandoned her. Again he came to Paris and swindled a stockbroker out of 150,000 francs. It was for this robbery, combined with an attack on a policeman with • pistol that the Count was &nested in November last. 'I he name he gave on his arrest was that employed for the ante de naissance of his child, born at Bordeaux. and it also seems that'll., used the same name, Limits de .Castillion, in his latest marriage at Madrid, November let, 1887. The Parisians have a most sensational trial to entrance them during from six en I 10 eight days. for