Don Juan Outclassed!

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 702, 29 June 1929, Page 18

Don Juan Outclassed!

Ardent Letter-Writer Courts 200 Women at the One Time

cees” he collected many thousands of pounds in cash and jewellery. In other cases he told stories of the dangers run from the depredations of hotel thieves in the South of France, and

urged his “fiancees” to have imitation jewellery and place the real ones in safe deposits. He offered to undertake this precautionary measure, but instead of putting the real jewellery in a safe deposit he sold it and pocketed the proceeds. One of his victims was a young American widow who had just come into a modest fortune left by her hu? band, and was making holiday in the South of France. She was persuaded to take the advice of her ugly lover regarding suitable investments for her money, and was trusting enough to hand the w hole of her capital over to him to be invested in securities ne declared the safest in the world. He vanished, leaving his victi® stranded, but such is the weakness o. women where scoundrels of this sort are concerned that though the victiff has had to seek charitable assistance to get back to the United States ant will now have to work for her living she refuses to prosecute Novotny, nodaring that she loves him in spite 0 everything, and wqjild be glad to for give if only he would return to her. It is almost incredible that a 3’o and attractive woman should & aT ’ developed such an infatuation for man who is described as absolutely repulsive in features, form and manner' as well as being uncouth and uncles in his habits. When he was arrested he malight of the charges against daring that all he had obtained rro his “fiancees” was in the nature> ; freewill offerings. “I am no Lanaruhe said. “They gave me their mo ° ’ because they loved me, and I ? them hours of happiness in return

HOUGH Pierre Novotny is a Don Juan who has had amazing success in his many love affairs '"’omen of all ages, UsIA some of them undoubtedly wealthy and beautiful as well as being of good family, he is far from being an Adonis. It is astounding to find young and impressionable society women pouring out to this man with coarse features and coarser manners the tender* est love effusions that ever emanated from the heart of infatuated and frail women.

Novotny seems to have put up a new world’s record for the number of “fiancees” any man can have at the same time, for he was corresponding with no fewer than 207, and each one of these was under the impression that she was the only woman in the world for him.

Though a good many of the v,c T, t are in good positions in the • sense, Novotny was not above for others among the servant class he knew they had savings that could get hold of, and his victim- * elude chambermaids and other © bers of the personnel of hotels v he was staying. toJ While at Cannes he made love pretty chambermaid who was a ness of his many visits to the l . apartment of the widow, an suaded her that it was her turn . the widow he came to see. Fro J~ widow and chambermaid he od . as much cash as they could rats then vanished. Novotny kept up correspond®*, with most of the women at the . time and duplicated the P n pages of his love letters, som

He had fixed dates for weddings to them all, some of them being booked for the same day, but Pierre was too clever to get himself deeper into the mire by going through ceremonies with any of the women. He was already married, and had a family. He seems to have spent considerable time wandering about Europe having a good time, and in the South of France he found a happy hunting ground among the English and American visitors, some of his victims being quite young girls, and some of them connected with good families.

One of his stories was that he was temporarily embarrassed owing to the delay in paying over to him a legacy left by his uncle, and therefore he was obliged to ask his “fiancee” to come to his aid by finding enough money to enable him to take E.dvantage of an attractive business proposition that would ensure a comfortable future for them both when they were married.

duplicating the whole. ,^-jj To avoid any chance of coniusiu referring to details of the life tractions of a particular “fiance* had carefully classified in a & * which he could easily refer tn ticulars about each woman in noting also the story he ad 1 v > he B: of himself so that there coni * blunder calculated to give him

The story never failed to catch the victims, and from his numerous “fian-