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Show VAGRANT! OF ROYAL BLOOD ; Arrested for Begging, Col. Musgrove Tells a Romantic Story. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 2. Wearing a Victorian Cross, which he says was presented to him by tho late Queen or England and laying claim to royal birth and fabulous wealth, a man glv- j ing the namo of Colonel Richard Mus- j grove, a poorly clad, but withal pos- j sesslng an air of extreme gentility, j yesterday faced a charge of solicit , ing alm6 in the city police court. "Reneath thi& frayed flock Hows the blood of English nobility and. In the vaults of England a fortune1 ot j SS7.000.000 awaits the careworn lndl-1 vidual who stands before you, hu- j millated by a ride In a coach of ordl- nary criminals, an American patrol i wagon.' Waxing eloquent under plainly evident evi-dent chagrin at his misfortune, Colonel Col-onel Musgrove thus addressed the court Mayor Sebrlng -was sent for and after hearing the romantic, story o( the prisoner, he was released and to cheer him on the advent of the n?Y-. year, several city hall employes slipped slip-ped a few coins in his hands. Musgrove. who gives his age as 51, says his mother was a queen of a province in India, Queen Zeleka, and that his father was an English nobleman noble-man He claims that tho Victorian Cioss was presented to him for services ser-vices rendered in the English cavalry caval-ry in New Zealand, when he was a. colonel. About his waist is a belc aged with wear, which he claims held a swora wnen iwo norses were snui beneath him during a battle. Ealng claim to American citizenship, which be places higher than English nobility, nobil-ity, Musgrove says: "In recompense for the honors conferred con-ferred upon me in Amerlcau citizenship, citizen-ship, which I assumed in North Dakota Da-kota 1G years ago, I may be compelled compell-ed to give up a seat in the house ot lords when I come into my estate. Before this assemblage of English noblemen, I may some day proudly state that I have foresworn the allegiance alleg-iance to the English crown for the dis- I tinction of wearing the toga of an j American citizen." Musgrove declines to give his correct cor-rect name, but asserts that his elder i brother is now an English duke and j that upon his death the title will fall (o him, and with it the millions which, he claims were left by his mother.' I |