A FORGER'S INTERESTING STORY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1800, 27 March 1888, Page 3

A FORGER'S INTERESTING STORY.

New Yobk, Feb 9 —A young man who calls himself Ritchie, and who says he la the son of a member of the English Parliament, a graduate of Oxford and the holder of an English army commieaion, la locked np m Yorkviile on a charge of stealing $10 from his landlady. When arraigned In court the young man modeßtly diecußßed himself and family thuß: "Nearly all the males m our family have been eoldlers. Five of my brothers died on the battlefield. My grandfather was a Colonel and killed at Waterloo. I went through the Egyptian war and came back a Second Lleu'enant m a company of the Li f e Guards. JJhad a hard time of it m Egypt, and have & dozon scara from eabra cuts. I had the brightest prospects In life and my family waß very proud of me, when an incident occurred whloh compelled me to flee to this country to avoid disgraco

I was a suitor for the band of Lady Adelaide Coecampse, eldest daughter of Lord Lawrence of Lawrence. The Captain of my company, Sir Oharleo Lookhact — now a colonel of the regiment — wps my rival. I was the one moat favored by the lady aad Sir Charles tried to avenge himself and bring ma into disgraco by blackmailing my character among my frtendß and military companions. I learned of thla and went directly to Sir Charles'B headquarters In tho barracks and accused him of lying about me. Hot worda ensued, and at last I struck him. Fur that I. was court-mar ialhd, and my father gave me £5000 and sont mo to this country. Hero I met D. G Crouche, the man whose name I forged to a cheque. I became quite intimate with him, and 1 folliahly turned nearly all my cash over to him to invest for mo. lie gave me bonda m return, but I learned soon aftor that he was a clever swindler, and that tho honda were bogua. I lost about £23,000.

" My father scnda tno an allowance, bat as the last quarter's money did uot come I did tho3eeontemptibledeeda to get enough moDey to keep mo until ray allowance arrived, when I intended to rqaare them up with bi# Interest. I own eight Bharea m the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railroad, which are worth several thousand pounds, and I have diamonds worth £2000 In pawn here In Chicago." The assuoaei glibnoss with whigh RltohSe rattled off names from Barke's and De Brette'a staggered Ilia arUtooratlc attaches of the court, but whan the latter gained tholr braalh they diacoverad that there were several manifaat discrepancies In the glittering narrative. Ritchie was accordingly held over to fag further investigated. Meau while oeveral other ohargea have developed against him.