COUNTESS AS "SANDWICHMAN."

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12480, 5 March 1909, Page 1

COUNTESS AS "SANDWICHMAN."

Loungers on the Paris boulevards were recently treated to the spectacle of an extraordinary trio tramping along the muddy pavements. Two men and a woman, all dressed in long black "Levitical" robes, were carrying sandwich boards'advertising a weekly publication. To a reporter the-woman made the following statement: "I » am the Countess of Rosemond, 'nee Chabot de Lussay, so that I was by no means born to the trade. I need not go into ■ the circumetances which have forced me to earn my own bread. I should certainly prefer to be a millionairess, but when I receive my 3s 6d at the end of the day lam content. . I have suffered so much in my-life that I can appreciate this humble independr ence, and the money earned by by own efforts gives me greater pleasure than my pride than my title and my old vanities." The countess in her charae--ter — as one of the elusive Steinheil murderers — wore a flaming red wig.