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Show STRANGE AND ERRATIC Doings of a Man Who ig Known In Salt Lake. Sr. Paul, Minn., April 14. Walter Lorraine's (alias Thomas H. Lithgow-late, Lithgow-late, who was arrested for failure to pay his bill at the Ryan) real name is Thomas L. Sate, and outside of his excellent ex-cellent family connection, his many swindling schemes have made him famous. fa-mous. His father was a Yankee, whose adventurous spirit, when young,' led him to foreign climes and he amassed a largo fortune in shipping. He met a beautiful Spanish girl of pure Castiliau blood, and married her after a romantic series of adventures to outwit the family and church. This lady was Sale's mother and from her he obtained his Spanish address and appearance. He inherited from his father considerable con-siderable means, but quickly went through it. He was then thrown on his own resources, for his dead parent, knowing his failing, had left most of his fortune to his eldest son. Thomas fell in love shortly after his father's death with a Boston girl,, not his equal, socially, aud the family uever reeog-nized reeog-nized her. This wife he took to New York and has had three children by her. Finally his elder brother, who was in San Domingo in tho sugar business, sent for Sate and offered him nn intir. est in the business, which was accepted gladly, for it gave him a chance to get away from his wife, whom he was tiring tir-ing of. It appears that he and his brother subsequently quarreled, aud Sate returned to the United States, whore ho resumed his sensational and erratic career. |