Untitled

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1095, 24 February 1893, Page 26

It appears that Dr Cornelius Herz, who ha 3 gained considerable notoriety in connection with the Panama Canal scandal, is no novice in fraudulent arts. The San Francisco correspondent of the Otago Daily Times writes as follows :—‘ For a considerable period subsequent to the Franco-German war Dr Herz lived and practised in this city. He had offices upon Kearney street. He did an enormous business. His rooms were thronged. Carriages waited at his door. He was all the rage. Of course society welcomed him, and the great man patronised society, borrowed large sums of its members, obtained signatures to his many bills, fleeoed and cheated and lied like the thorough-paced rascal that he was, and—disappeared. When, therefore, his name was flashed across oceans and continents, many recalled, with a peculiar look in their eye and an unconscious tightening of the fingers, their once fellow-citizen. They stood, many of them, amid wrecked homes and blighted lives ; but he stood and lived and had his being among dukes and princes and statesmen and deputies and financiers, holding his own magn’ficentiy. And now the whirligig of time has brought other changes, and Herz is once again a vagabond upon the face of the earth. His whereabouts is a mystery. Some say London, some Vienna, and some America. The last, I think, is an error. I do not believe hs will try America—at all events this aide of it.’