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Show BY ORDER OF CZAR ' -x Nicholas Savin, Adventurer, Released Re-leased From Riga Prison. International Swindler, "Man of the Hour" In Russia, Now Earns Honest Hon-est Living Was Street Car Conductor In Chicago. Moscow. Nicholas Savin, the notorious no-torious Russian adventurer who -calls himself Count Nicholas de Toulouse-Lautrec, Toulouse-Lautrec, has been released from prison pris-on in Riga by the czar's manifesto of March 5. When the count came out of prison he had only three rubles in his pocket. He has earned 5,000 rubles ru-bles so far. A Moscow newspaper is publishing his diary and a cinematograph cinemato-graph firm has paid him $1,500 for films illustrating his life. In Russia he Is the man of the hour. He is known to the police all over Europe and America as an exceedingly exceeding-ly accomplished swindler, who speaks half a dozen languages and whose specialty is the passing off on the guileless of forged bonds and securities. securi-ties. He accounts for all the records of charges and convictions against him In various parts ot the globe In two Ingenious ways. Either they were crimes committed is a cousin who Is remarkably like him or he says they were charges trumped, up agaiast him by the Russian Rus-sian secret police in order to get rid of a dangerous nihilist. According to his own story, he took part in the Russo-Turkish war of 1S77 ! wonderful stories of escapes from Si- beria and is, in fact, the most brilliant artist in modern fiction. WAR WHEN THE WHALE COMES So Think the Superstitious Ones Who Watch Over the Dela-ware Dela-ware Bay. Chester, Pa. Superstitious people of this city believe that the whale which was recently seen in Dalaware bay is a precurser of war. They re fer to past omens of a similar charar ter, reciting that the whale whict came up the Delaware river in 181. was a precurser of the War of 1812, and that in I860, one year before the outbreak of the Civil war, a whale came up these waters to Philadelphia. This latter whale Edward Culen, a veteran vet-eran fisherman of this city, avers he saw. He says: "It was just this way. It was during dur-ing the summer of 1860. Horace Davis and I were out in a boat fishing. It was a little dark, and we had a lantern. lan-tern. T was drawing in the net and Savis was banking it. All of a sudden sud-den Davis said: 'Ned, there's vessel upside down out there.' I looked and saw a thing that had the appearance of the hull of a craft upset. 'See how swift the tide speeds by It,' said Davis. "We'd got pretty close to it then, and I lifted the lantern to take a good look. Just then there was a terrible splash and the water went clear up Into the air out of that thing, just as though a powder magazine had busted. "I dropped the lantern, and Davis and I grabbed the oars, and we didn't stop until we got ashore. There wasn't any steamboat on the river that could have beaten us that trip. When Czar of Russia. and was severely wounded at Plevna. There Is some ground for doubting this account, for he received no medal and no wound pension. All that ia known is that in 1878 he gave up his commission. When Savin was on trial at Pau in 190S for swindling lie told the same story of being wounded at Plevna as well as at Santiago de Cuba. The French court ordered the prison doctor doc-tor to examine his "wounds." The doctor reported that there certainly were scars visible, but they were received re-ceived in battles other than those of war. After a thrilling escape from the j French gendarmerie he fled to the I Haitians, where he enlivened proceed- ' Inss by presenting himself ns a cau- didate for the Huigarian throne. His schemes, however, were frustrated frus-trated by a Moscow barber, to who. a ne owed money, and who. happening ' to be in Constantinople at the same ' time, gave information to the Russian embassy as to Savin's identity. The luckless adventurer was sent j to Narim, a desolate convict settle- j meat in Siberia, but within three j months he succeeded in escaping. Afterward he lived in Chicago, j where he worked as a car conductor ' and was naturalized as an American j citizen. He was married in Canada and arrested and sentenced there for dealing in forged bonds in 11)00 and bias since been arrested in New York, Lisbon, Finland and Pau. He tells |