Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-11-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FRENCH "LADY-KILLER'S'  CAREER.  ROMANTIC REVELATION a.  The forthcoming trial of the French adventurer, Prado, rilicu Count Linska, promises to reveal an extraordinary career of crime. The I villain appears to possess a Marvellous faculty of fascinating the fair &lid fickle daughters of Eve. He has also proved himself one of the most impudent impostors of the day. After having eerved with the Carlists 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 1:16.00C of the dowry, was sent away from Lima by the lady's family. The Count next appeared at Oporto, in Portugal, where he robbed I a jeweller's shop. and entered the place again a I few weeks after in order to leave a letter for the jeweller on his counter. and in which cominnniert. lion the burglar coolly told his victim to look eareiully after the place. From Oporto Iliad° west to Madrid, where ho opened a gambling saloon, cheated a lot of Greeks supposed to be as sharp as himself out of a large Bum of money, and got £2,000 from • venerable senora of sixty, to whom he made love. In 1879 he married Dolores Games y Mareilla, said to be descended from the kings of Arragon. She brought him £7OO, and ia now starving in a garret in Madrid. In 1883 Prado came to Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Flee,Xie Forestier, who has given most incriminating information against him. Marie Aguetan was murdered in circumstances which have already been detailed, in January. 1886. and immediately after the crime Prado left Paris suddenly. Forestier was in the meantime struck by the description of the preeumed murderer which was given in the papers, but being fond of the fellow she hesitated before communicating her suspicions to the police. Prado went to Bordeaux, where he met a young woman named Couronneam whom he seduced under premise of marriage. In Bordeaux be stole eirlY) from a jeweller, and. re-' turning to Paris he boldly annexed diamonds and precious stones worth eIO,COO, from M. Lorenzo, also a jeweller. That operation, however, cost Prado his liberty, and perhaps hie life, for he was arrested! after a struggle with the police, one of whom he I wounded. Shortly afterwards a whole band of his accomplices, male and female, and of earions nationalities, was likewise captnred. EtheOlie Forestier gave the police-, indications respecting Marie Aguetau's jewellery, some of which was given to her by Ptado and some sold in Madrid. In Decembete. 1887, Prado wrote from Mazes Prison to Forestier, asking her to save him, and premising that he would then devote his life to her. This is regarded by the judges as tantamount to an acknowledgment oi the crime; but in any case, the webs have been drawn tightly around the accused, and he is not likely to be able to clear himself. In the meantime, the detectives have arrested twelve swindlers in the South of France who belonged to the Catesse, and probably to the Allmayer, hand. Among them is a woman named Flora, who was well known to the gamblers of Monte Carlo. Parisians will therefore have a number of attractions in the shape of sensational trials duringthe ensuing month.