AMOROUS COUNT.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1922, Page 5

AMOROUS COUNT.

LETTERS TO MARRIED WOMAN. DISAPPOINTED SPANIARD. London, August f.O. Scotland Yard’s request to the Spanish Count de Luzarraga to leave Britain clears up a mystery of the mails. The count, who belongs to a wealthy Spanish family, repeatedly addressed letters to a titled woman, who was already married, asking her to marry him. Her friends intervened, with the result that the Count was ordered to leave for the Continent. However, the count, although he booked a? passage by steamer, at the last minute decided to ignore Scotland Yard’s edict and remain in London. Interviewed, he said he had decided to tell the true facts and let Scotland Yard do their worst. “Before the war,” he said, “I was engaged to a famous titled London society beauty. I had to return to Spain. When I again visited England I found she had married. I communicated with her. She reproached me. “It is quite‘true that love-letters did pass between us/ but it is not now an , affair of love. I gather she resents my presence in England. I’ve been treated [disgracefully.” The newspapers state that the woman 'in the case is well known in England and on the Continent, and that if her name was disclosed it would create a I sensation.