A Peculiar Swindle

Southland Times, Issue 11362, 21 January 1890, Page 3

A Peculiar Swindle

An extraorrtinary stor* comes from Hungary. A yonng nun, calling himeelf Count Sander Vay, who protended to have i alien out with hi* f mi y in Hungary, numed last Augum a uacne-r at' Kla^eufi.n, aged 27, daughter of an inspector of woo is and forests there. The marr>age took place on a lonely firm in Hungary, a cer'.a.n father Imre oftic »'ing at the wedding ceremony. The newly mtrricd couple lived t fur some lime, an • af'erward* visited the gin's paren's in Kl genfur , where the fa her in-law w<s co.iantJy fl-eced by tbe all' eed (Jouat. Qj->ire s aru*e. aud ultima'eiy it tun el out tbat the young Count's tales of himse f were all inventions. Tbe pertons he retired to W6re imagii ary, and the inspector w^s c n, vimed h" dti a aw niler. S>ine<hing at > 1 1 stranger, acd indeed unparaliele l, scon came to ngtjr. Kre loDg it w»» found that th-- socaJed Count was, n reality, a woman of '66, the Counters tiarlta Vav, daughter of trie Uie Oolonel of H .mve is, Couut Ladi»lnus \ av, oue of whos* dmnh'.eri, aatnel Sarolia, hi i oe^n eilu-»tej .-.s a hoy Ail her iite she h .d worn ma t at ere, and recently bad appeared in ihe uniform uf tr.e Honvedn Bbe publihid a collect .on of poems under tbe name of San do i, and associated with young men, who were no' in the secret, in maniy iLoV«mtnt«. From Pesih, where eccen ricities of that son arc barui) a rarity, she disappeared about a year ago, t-.fier which sb« WA« not again beard of im'il bt-r arrest, on the demand of her nominal fa'her-in-iaw, at ELagenfurt. It is probable hat Fa hf-r Imrt: wax not a prief, and 'Bat the girl, in going through tbe form of mairiage, only executed ano'her eccentrici'y in order to procure muney, of wbich cha wan in great uted. The mjstery ha* been solved by the confession of the ' bridegroom,' Countess •urolta. She had arranged, she says, the staam marriage with the girl Konelhirf, who knew of ter sex ; their object was to obtain money from tbe girl's father, which the two damsels had cpent to^f tuer in amusements. Tbe Countess is su'l under arrest, and the forester means to prosecute her for fraud, although bis own daughter must be charged as an tocompiir .