A BOGUS PRINCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3049, 20 November 1908, Page 3

A BOGUS PRINCE.

The "Journal" (Paris) prints a remarkable account of the exploits of an adventurer, a young Spaniard, who gives the name of San \ Pedro. He posed at Gibraltar as a son of the hero of Santiago, and courted the daughter of an English officer. His masquerade was discovered. He was arrested and imprisoned at Cadiz, but was afterwards liberated, on the intervention of another British officer. The next seen of him was in London, where he managed to be received in fashionable circles. He left England for Cherbourg, but before going on to Paris he telegraphed to the Spanish Ambassador that a brother of the Queen of Spain would arrive in Paris at two o'clock in the morning of the day mentioned. It is asserted that both the British and Spanish Ambassadors, with members of their staffs, waited on him on the station platform, and that a detachment of infantry was also sent in his honour. The "Prince." was duly received, and with the greatest self-possession greeted the diplomats and inspected the soldiers, and then continued his journey to Spain. At Saragossa the self-styled Prince and his aide-de-camp, a butler, lunched with the Governor, the mayor, and the captain-general, and at Toledo, Cardinal Sancha, Primate of Spain, insisted upon his acceptance of £2OO, in order to save him the trouble of sending to Lon'on for the money. He was finally unmasked, however, and is now in prison.