A CHEQUERED CAREER.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3389, 8 October 1900, Page 4

A CHEQUERED CAREER.

Having run the gamut from the luxury of the millionaire to the boxcar of the hobo, with all the experiences between, Edward Leonard Dwyer, of Torrington, Conn., enlisted on August 1 m the service of the United Statea as a marine. Dwyer was at one time one of the biggest speculators m New York. He bought wheat by the hundred thousand bushels, and when he sold it lost heavily. In 1886 he astonished Chicago by trying to " corner " wheat with a miiliou-bußhel purchase, but again he lost. In 1-395 he married the Duchesse de Castellacia, an American girl who had married an Italian duke and returned to the States after tho duke died and left; her 1} millions sterling. The marriage toot place m Bock Ledge, Fla., and among the guests was Richard Croker, the Tammany. " Boss." Wh%n Dwyer's wife died she left him 4J75.000 and a group of islands off the coast of Maine, which he sold for a large sum. In a short time his money was gone, and h* was adjudged a bankrupt m New York m May, 1895*. Then his worst troubles began, for he lo3t his friendß. Last January he was active m promoting a scheme to opm giiver miaes m Mexico, where he had formerly bseu a prosperous railroad balder, and there was over a quarter of a nj;i]ion m sight but the scheme fell though. Than Dwyer wont to Portland, Ore,, but later decided to go East. He got as :.:r as Haritsburg, and was content to ge. ' ■*,.(. Th-B disgnsted him, and then he eaiiitsd m the marines. He was taken witis a i.iuail of recrnit? to League Island, Philadoipbia,, and is now serving Uncle Saw.