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I.Is wife's estate wan false.MltkieivJc-/’* Career. lCugene Slanlslaa JCosta do Mltkiewicz, commonly known as Count MiLklowlcz, though the genuineness of his title hua often been questioned, has been for more than thirty years before the jnrb-llc from time to time as an ndventuror.It has boon claimed that before ho figured prominently In Amorlcun soolety MJtklcwloz had u career In Canada, Scotland, and Belgium, and that ho served a term In prison In Scotland for swindling Lord Hamilton,It was nlKo claimed that at this ti ne his title was Investigated and ho was found to be the son of u Polish Hebrew, or Warsaw, with no olalm to a title.In November. 1883, a ball \yaa given to tho officers of the Russian floot, theft In New York Harbor, and nl thlB ball Count Mltklewtcz met MIbb Julia Lonlo-llno.• Mltkiewicz had been living at the IPlftli Ayoauo Hotel and spending money freely. lie obtained permission to call on the young woman, and one day when ho had been admiring u handsome .diamond ling sho wore he slipped It on his linger.When ho started to go ho was asked for the ring end Bald ho had rotumed It. A row days later ho returned the tinfe with proruse apologies, saying no had found it In hie pocket, where It had accidentally dropped.Paste Diamonds Substituted. Afterward it was round that tho diamonds. which wero worth *1,260, had been taken out and paste Bubstltutod. Investigation proved that Mltklewloz had • sold the original stones to some jewellers. Ho wae arrested and Indicted for grand larceny, but ho rotumed tho money to the Jeweller, the diamonds were returned, and the young woman declined to prosecute him.In 1878 Mltkiewicz, while on hie summer vacation, dropped into Amherst,The Polish Count now wnnled under fulse pretennes. H1b operation substitution or pasto dlunioiids for th to his dazzling tale of vast Chinese lt;notorious man of his class who lius e\copies of religious and dally papers, American silver, nickel and copper coins and colnB of England. The corner-stone Is inscribed: . . -: RRKCTKU A.' T. 1807. :: ftullt nport lliu riiiind.ilfc.il of the njvjsiU* :: anil pro-ilmi*. Chrlat JiIiiimoIC toln« U :: ohlaf i-orner-stouo. ;t Nisi DomlmiB Krusta. :Mass.* and there .met' Miss Carol I no Lester. a-nlec® ef.Prof^WlUlam S..Tyler,’ Bidllnulnii lltvulli'n • Statement.Commander Bulllngton l3aoi.li, at lli'c meeting of,s,l)ha volunteers in Cooper Union lost night, said;•*I have no opinion to oxpress whatever respecting Uomimisaloner Booth-Tuokor’s soclml schemes. As my name has appeared in Uho press tn conneotlou with certain proposod undertakings, In justice to myself and the Volunteers I only want to make cHnr the tn tcinet it that I dleolaim any connection with tho aamu.”FINDS TWENTY-TWO PEARLS.Mr. Hofmann's Diiclc in Opening;Oysters for a Yuung Couple.A young couple went into,Charles L. Hofmann's restaurant, In Rutherford, N. J., ycatcrday and ordered two halt shells.*'Mr. Hofmunn began opening the oysters. One of tho shells, an unusually large one, gave Mr. Hofmann a good deal of trouble. When ho, opened It ho found twenty-two small pearls.Mr. Hofmann was delighted, and says the Alaskan gold field 1b not tho only Klondike on tho map. When (ho gets through showing tho pearls in the rough Mr. Hofmann will have thorn set In a noaklaco fpr his daughter. - .
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New York World
New York, New York, US
Mon, Nov 29, 1897
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