ADVENTURES OF AN EX-KING'S SON.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 3, 19 August 1911, Page 6

ADVENTURES OF AN EX-KING'S SON.

It; is not' ofteu that the Palis police are called upon to arrest' tiro son of a king, hut it happened .o.n. June 13, when the Italian Baron do Lord was given into .custodymon a> charge of petty pilfering from one' ofthe big

shops-. 1 ' Bimm de Ldrd' Is sio' natural sou of the .lute Duke of Aosta, who, under the title of Ainedo' L, at the beginning of the seventies reigned over Spain for if'few years. Driven fioin In's kingdom, the Prince of the House of Savoy returned to ids native country. Baron do Lord was boro at Turin in 1880, Ids mother being a very bountiful 1 1 enclnvoman who i ; J attracted the attention of the ex-King. The baron has had an adventurous career. ;-At' iur early age lie developed a proclivity for sports, travel, and regal living. When Ids father was dying he charged his brother, the late King Humber, to hand to the baron, his son, £IOOO and a dozen shirts hearing the father’s royal monogram. His mother afterwards contracted a wealthy marriage, but her wayward son continued to cause her much anxiety. At last, in despair, she shipped him as a cabin-boy on board an Italian tramp steamer. After four years nothing more was hoard of him. Then one day he returned to Italy, and made the acquaintance of the daughter of a wealthy Italian nobleman, and married her. His wife brought him a considerable fortune, hut within eighteen months lie had dissipated it all. The Italian Courts pronounced’ a decree of separation, granting the baron an allowance of £G per month, a For six months he has lived in Paris, putting up at the best hotels.; Overburdened with debt and in desperate straits for money, the baron resorted to potty thieving, and was caught red-handed. When questioned by tire jugo d’instruetion ho admitted his guilt, and pleaded that he had been driven to steal because he was penniless. The baron

is now in gaol awaiting his appearance hclore tiio Correctional Court. LViean'vhilo hosts ol tailors, jewellers, haticMs, mercers, rand bootmakers arc bombarding tho police with fresh complaints against the accused scion of royalty.—“. Daily Chronicle's” correspondent.