A PRINCELY FELLOW.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1518, 28 March 1887, Page 3

A PRINCELY FELLOW.

The XUw Yprk correspondent of a contamporary relates tho fallowing :— A man turned up here about two yeara ago, who was christened at once the Count of Mont* Ohristo. He was a splendid lookIng fellow, spoke half a dczsn languages with the fluency of n native. He had Money, plenty ; ho paid hU bills like a Prince, and I*, was whispered that he wan * Prince, but whether be was a Russian or a Polt, a Hungarian or an Auitriap, an Italian or a Oermao, no fellow con d find out. He could box like Sullivan ard fence like D'Artagnan, ho could ride lii • • jockey, he oonld draw and paint, plf y on the piano and violin, m fact, It M*m*d tbera was nothing he could not do and do well. Ho was not p:otenti< t> or lou<?, he sought no one, and if p"op'« aonght him they found him n oopi'd fallow, and a royal enfert^in«T, whiott ■nairia him a desirable person to k>-.ow. ' Tha wiltarx at all 'ha "a'«s and hotels •dored him, for his lar»f«n va^ most cenerons, and it was his cost >ra to give ; littlt dinner* to a dcz>n or bo vt the Hoffman, Dalmooolo's, and the Biutu* - wlok, and fr«m tha Lvish mao. Er in 'vhfch thay w«re ajot np, it was pretty •vMaot that there must be a bonatz* tomowhera or the faantc would brent. Bat money never seemed soaroe. an I his i diamonds were the ad<nirntion of a!l is frlandf. Where he cams fr;m or wha: he was d ting, or where he wan going n-i. body koaw While living on tbe b-st; of. averythinuf h"» was no rov«t- r<*i. % •Imyi a gentleman, apparently sans ptur et sans reprochc. There was no wi man In tha om», nothing to hang a doubt on bat last week he disappeared as suddenly M a aomet, and no man know e where ! a bai gone ; bat to bis oredit, be it recorded, ha leaves no creditors behind him. I don't know exactly that it will do to pu thfa and that toga* her ; but just about twoyaarsago, a royal princess of Russia lost jewels wh'oh where valund at two millions of rooblai. Tha lady had been raokiass, and on a cartain ocoaslon nt Moscow, took off her diamond bracelets •nd naoklaoe, exchanged them for ohips, And gambled off a fortune bafore breakf Alt, Bat while m the Emperor's pal»ce •t St, Petersburg, her j i<wels disappeared, •nda valet disappeared at the same tinn 8om« Banian deteotives arrived last wtak, reiohlng New York on tha very - day that oar Ooant of Mont* Ohriste disappeared, The detectives hava nothing to aay— they are not looking for anybody—they are not detectives, bat merely Kuuian gentlemen anxioas to sob the eoantry. They are smart, but not much smarter th«n an average New York redorter. We will find out In a day or two, If It really was the distinguished foreigner '. who stole the Princess' jewels. If ever ho returns to New York the reporter la jait the boy to a»k him if he I* tho man.