AN AMOROUS SPANIARD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16814, 17 August 1922, Page 7

AN AMOROUS SPANIARD.

LETTERS TO MARRIED WOMAN. LONDON, August 8. Scotland Yard’s request to the Spanish Count He Luzarraga to leave Britain clears up a mystery of tho mails. 'f'lie. Count, who belongs to a wealthy Spa n ish fa mi ly. repeatedly add ressed letters 1o a titled woman, who was already married, asking her to marry him. Her friends intervened, with tic result that the Count was ordered to leave for the Continent. However, the Count, although he hooked a passage by steamer at Hulast minute, decided to ignore Scotland Yard’s edict and to remain in London. Interviewed, he said he had decided to tell the true facts and lot Scotland Yard do their worst. “ Before the war.” he said. “ 1 was engaged to a famous titled London society beauty. I had to return to Spain. When I again visited England I found she had married. I communicated with her. She reproached me. “It i> quite true that love-letters did pass between us, but it is not now an affair of love. I gather she re sents my presence in England. I’ve been treated disgracefully.” The newspapers state that the woman in the case is well known in England and on the Continent, and that if her name was disclosed it would create a sensation.