Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — TAKE BOGUS COUNT OFF SHIP. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TAKE BOGUS COUNT OFF SHIP.

UftMtlTM roll Flu of “De Toulnoao Eoutree” at Mew York. The "Count De Toulouse” Lautree, a noted swindler with a record of crime committed 4n this country and in Europe, was > taken off the French line steamship Gascogne Thursday as it was about to Bail. The bogus count had walked aboard the ship and seated himself in the women’s cabin, with only |3B in his pocket and no ticket or baggage. Detectives who seized him are in doubt whether he went there to “turn a trick” or to try to get passage for Europe as a stowaway. The socalled count when interviewed a year ago said he was born of French parents In Foland, his family having fled during the French revolution and acquired large estates in Russia. He was educated in Vienna, where he took a degree of civil engineer. He served as captain of the horse guards in the Russian army for three years, then came to the United States. He returned to France and married. He said that his wife was the daughter of the Countess De Ingreville. In April, 1900, De Toulouse Lautree was arrested in Chicago

on a telegram from Toronto, which charged him with having passed forged bonds on the bank of Montreal. He was turned over to the United States authorities, and after a hard fight was extradited to Canada. He was once mixed up in a movement that had for its object his crowning as king of Bulgaria.

COUNT LAUTREC.