GREAT MASTERS.
"COUNT" PROVES TO BE A TAILOR'S SON.
PICTURES ALL FORGERIES.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright, Received April 21, 10.27 a.m. LONDON, April 20.
The police have been making enquiries regarding the antecedents of the Uount and Countess Aulby Deglatngy, stated to be well-known French Aristocrats, who were rscently arrested at Tours on a charge of having sold forged paintings of Great masters to Mrs Paine, an American lady living in Paris.
It has been discovered that the "Count" is reallv the son of a London tailor named Daulby. He had been living in extravagant style at Tours.
(The portraits sold to , Mrs Paine included pictures described as works of Murillo, Coreggio, Titian, and Corot the four costing £40,000 sterling. Experts declare the pictures to be all forgeries.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10025, 22 April 1910, Page 5
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130GREAT MASTERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10025, 22 April 1910, Page 5
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