THE CHINESE BANK SCHEME.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1683, 7 January 1888, Page 3

THE CHINESE BANK SCHEME.

. Count Milkiewiez, who is now at Washington, and claims to have from the Chinese Government important franchises, including a concession for an international hank in China, is believed to he a professional swindler, who .under the same name has been caught in several impostures. A sketch of his career was published several years ago in a book entitled u The iNew Tork Tombs Prison: It»

Secreta and its Mysteries.’’ In this '/ •n account is given of Count Milkier, wiez, who claimed to belong to the I Russian nobility. He came to New. , York in 1863, was greatly courted by . society, and was finally arrested for stealing diamonds from a young lady’a nog, Which he borrowed, returning it; with paste diamonds in place of real ■ ones. He was released from prison | on agreeing to enlist for the war, and. reappeared ten years later at Amherst, Massachusetts, under the same name. He made court to, and succeeded in marrying her against her parents’ wishes, the daughter of a prominent - citizen, who was disinherited by her ' - father. The couple went to California, , and then to Europe, where they, suffered great poverty, the Count be-; coming a professional {. ambler, and brutally treating his wife, who four J rears ago returned home and died, eating several children. The revelations of this record are likely to pub an end to the various reports so long circulated about establishing a Chinese International Bank with American l«pital.