THE DISAPPOINTED COUNT

Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 8

THE DISAPPOINTED COUNT

LETTERS TO TITLED WOMAN. SOCIETY SENSATION. LONDON, August 8, Scotland Yard’s request to the Spanish Count de Luzarraga to leave Britain clears up a mystery of tho mails. The count, who belongs to a wealthy Spanish family repeatedly addressed letters to a titled' woman, who was already married, asking her to marry him. Her friends intervened, with the result that tho count was ordered to leave for tho 'Continent. . , , , , However, tho count, although he booked a passage by steamer at tho last-minute, decided to ignore Scotland Yard's edict, and' to remain in London. Interviewed, ho said he had decided to tell tho true facts, and let Scotland Yard do its worst. ‘ l ßefore tho war,” ho eaid, “I was engaved to a famous titled London society beauty. I had to return to Spain. When I again visited England I found 1 sho had married. I communicated with her. She reproached me. “It is quite true that lovo letters did pass between us, but it is not now an affair of love. I gather s'le resents my presence in England. I’ve been treated! disgracefully.” The newspapers state that the woman in tho caso is well known in England and on the Continent, and that if her name was disclosed it would create a sensation.