AMOROUS COUNT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 194, 17 August 1922, Page 5

AMOROUS COUNT.

LETTERS TO MARRIED WOMAN DISAPPOINTED SPANIARD. LONDON, August 8. Scotland Yard's request to the Sfbmisli Count ile Luzarraga to leave Britain clears up a mystery of the mails. Tho count, who belongs to a wealthy Spanish family, repeatedly addressed letters to a titled woman, who was already murried. 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 ho hooked a passage by steamer at the last minute, decided to ignore Scotland | Yard* edict and to remain in London. Interviewed, he said he had decided to tell the true facts and let Scotland Yard do their worst. "Before the war. ,- lie said. "T was engaged to a famous titled London society beauty. I had to return to Spain. When 1 again visited England T found s. c had married. I communicated with ho. She reproached mc. '•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 sensation.