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Show "COUNT" LOSES HIS CITIZENSHIP Chicago, April 8. Naturalization papers of "Count" Nicholas Erasmo Savlno dc Toulous Laurtcc, alias "Prince" Nicholas Savine, were cancelled can-celled yesterday by Judge K. M Lau-dis Lau-dis In the X'nited States district court. As a consequence, f be "count'' will no longer be heeded by American ambassadors in Europe should he appeal ap-peal to them as an American citizen for protection against the European police. Tho naturalization papers were Issued on April. 27, 189$, by Judge Gibbons in the circuit court. Lautree renounced tho Czar of Russia Rus-sia and swore he had been in tho United States five years, as required by the naturalization laws. Tho government gov-ernment charges he had been here less than five years and that nearly everything ho swore to was untrue. The "count'" new j3 n custody at Antwerp, Belgium, pending extradition extradi-tion proceedings on behalf of the government gov-ernment of Denmark, where he Is wanted for obtaining money on fraud ulent checks. Only a few months ago ho finished serving a term In prison at Antwerp on a charge of passing worthless checks. Lautree was sent to Siberia once by the Russian authorities, but escaped and got out of the country on an "emergncy passport' obtained from the American embassy at St. Petersburg Peters-burg on the strength of his American citizenship papers. Starabouloff, the Bulgarian dictator, dictat-or, was on tho point of placing him on tho throne of Bulgaria, but discovered dis-covered his mistake in time. |