COUSIN OF AN EMPRESS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3883, 28 October 1899, Page 2

COUSIN OF AN EMPRESS.

TaFtee Many- vicissitudes :>uc-c'Eeds-As a, miner. k , \ 7 XnGOUVUE (8.C.), September 11. Sre'ifep it story-going tiie rounds of Ike c Ccasf'-'Prefeyihat a cousin of the ox*Empress Eugtuie has just returned to civilisation after having passed. JL&een imm i'n' Mir~liTm —UT'-niiiiTi ii 'in in minr'l'iir -gold. 1 r-Csmilo Espinoza fled from .Madrid ip;lB3A At tbMtlfiio he wasfap''(ftheer of (he Royal Guard, and one night resented, in.B, deadly—'way, an ii'ault:offered to.him : ’by--a*Ttfdn6" ftnbd' officer, who chanced to be a relative of or-Quecn Isabella. He killed his man- ■; “•Despite my family connections,” Camilo Espinoza.-is reported, as saying, “a large sum of money was offered tor.jiiy-ur-reat.f • Hr family 'succeeded 'in smuggling me aboarii an-East Indian, end from that time till tins I have not revealed my identity. I would not"' do so now. hut, for this anfli he 1 Showed' a!' letter written -in French by the' ex-Eir.prees Eugenie, assuring him that she had obtained an unconditional partldh from the Queen; Regent, •H»u added■ that after reaching Bombny he grubbed for his living.' In 1834 he met three fellow-countrymen, alb down on their luck,” and they agreed to go to Alaska “Gin; adventures would‘read like incredible tales. More than were in the region now known as The KJpndyke. I have -disposed of a valuable location iO arteproeentative of Hie Baroness Bardelv Courts for • Her name did not, however, figure. 1 in the. transaction. -’ 1 * niyutellow. travellers are- as" rich now as -myself.” c. - ' •■-' - " ' \i, ■' Despite his strange story, honor '-Espinoza has impressed the Portland,' Oregon, jouriiialisls as'a trustwofthv man who has no reason to misrepresent himself. • ~ ,