Show LESLIEBE LEDYILLE The Widow Will Not Marry the Gay Marquis HE CARRIED HER PET POODLE In New York His Attempt to Force Her toWed to-Wed Him In London She Prefers a Journalist LONDON July 13By cable to theN Y irbrtrfJ Just as the City of Rome was pulling up anchor to leave Liverpool for New York yesterday Mrs Frank Leslie sent ashore the following dispatch to the Worlds London correspondent in reply to a message wired to her I am not engaged but am starting for home to attend to my work and to prepare for my lecture season Do Luevillos attempt this time to force Mrs Leslie into marrying him was actually sensational The new superintendent of he registrar of bt Georges of Hanover square was ready with the license and waiting to marry them Yesterday morn ing at 10 oclock when Do Lueville went to Mrs Leslies apartments at the Burlington hotel to his chagrin the bogus marquis found that Mrs Leslies trunks were on the hotel omnibns and just starting for America Ho wanted to get into the omni bus with her but she would not let him so he followed her in a hansom to Euston station sta-tion and went on the same train to Liverpool Liver-pool Every time Mrs Leslie comes to London Do Leuville circulates the report that she has come across the water especially to marry him When she arrived a few weeks ago he started the same story Mrs Leslie promptly denied it but this time Do Leuville went a step further than usual by applying for a marriage licence sending preliminary notice to the London papers yesterday Thursday afternoon the registrar of marriages for the district in which De Leuville lives went to the house of the marquis by special appointment and received the notice now recorded in his vestry book Do Leuvillo asked the registrar regis-trar if he would be on hand to perform the ceremony yesterday morning as he intended in-tended to start with his wife for the continent conti-nent by the 11 oclock mail train Though it was before the usual hour the superintendent superin-tendent promised ho would be there and kept his word De Leuville has shown considerable nervousness and excitability for the past ten days he has seldom been homo except late at night to sleep Mrs Leslie did not know then that ho had procured a license giving publicity to it and announced the marriage through the newspapers when she bade De Leuville good bye at the doorstep door-step of the notch All this has much astonished Mrs Lei lies friends here Doors will bo open to her now as an energetic American woman which would be forever closed to her as the wife of such a notorious adventurer as De Leuville His shady record is too well known require repetition but the use of the name Oliver in the license requires an explanation De Leuville is the son of an obscure artist named Olliver who lived Scarborough He saw in a French newspaper one day that the race of the aristocratic Olliver family in France was extinct and that the title of Marquis do Leuville would lapse He proinp Jy claimed to be a lineal descendant of the Olliver family appropriated the title and came to London to trade on it but his name is found neither in Burkes peerage nor in the published lists of the noblesse of France For years De Leuvilles career in London has been full of discreditable adventures with women who became infatuated with him His first escapade was with a daughter daugh-ter of Mme Tussaud of museum fame whom he married and she is now living in respectable circumstances in Madrid Since his return home from New York the marquis mar-quis has been conspicuous for his open affiliations affil-iations with the wealthy widow of a car riage maker His persistent persecUtiOn perse-cution of Mrs Leslie this season sea-son has been more marked than ever A short time ago he cave a reception at his apartment and was In straits how to decorate them He sent to Liberty the celebrated art fabric dealer for specimens of decorations which he said he wanted to purchase These he spread over his apartments apart-ments in fine array Just as the guests had assembled Libertys man came along with an ordor to take tho goods away unless the marquis purchased 20 worth The baffled marquis purchased for cash and the goods were allowed to remain over night The marquis had previously worked this game with success but Liberty was too much for him a second time |