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Show I rrs FOR MONEY. i A SENSATIONAL CASE IN A LONDON ' COURT. . the Countess dl Rossi to be Yanked up Uc- fore the Court Owing to Her Extreme Ketlssnce la Llqudatiug her Legally Contracted Debts. London, Doo.10 SpepiaTcablograrti f TnE Times. A animation was cro ' aled (Qday by an elderly lady namrd I Jiliss Kate Loiiin., niatitij; au applira- I tiou in the pollen court for a warrant for the arrest of tho Countess do Rossi. The complainant tirst met the countess about eight years ago, and soon after lent the countess ou the representation that sho was expecting a remittance from her uncle, a millionaire in Hra7.il, a large sum of money which has never been paid. Last March tho countess secured another $10,000 froni the complainant com-plainant ofteriiifr as security tho furniture furni-ture in hor house at Paris, which she valued at (1,23,000. Later she borrowed bonds from Mis Loiuax to tho amount f $30,000, at the same time tho countess count-ess stated that her friend tho wealthy Count lie liocbfoucald. would when culled upon, refund the bonds or tlmir oquivaleut. The magistrate magis-trate refused to issue tho warrant as it bad not been shown to him that tho alleged al-leged rich uncle in Brazil was a myth, and that, the furniture was found in Paris, although heavily mortgaged, and tho accused was acquainted with Count de llochfnueald. Tho evidence, in his opinion, merely showed that Miss Lo-max Lo-max lent her money upon very little security, and that there was nothing to convict tho countess of committing a fraud. The case is the sensation of the day. Tho countess is at present in Paris. After this exposure it is doubtful doubt-ful if she will return to London. Here sho lived in the fashlonablo quarter and moved in the society t f tho nobility nlthough she had never been reoeived at court. |