POLES

Stefan . b. Poland 1847; educ. at Vitzburgh in Bavaria; took part in an outbreak of the Poles against Ru ia, condemned to death, fled from Poland 1864; a newspaper correspondent in America; a isted in raising a regiment of Poles at Bordeaux to fight against the Pru ians 1870; intimate with the Communists in Paris 1871, imprisoned at Versailles May to Dec. 1871, when he escaped to England; brought an action against The Times for accusing him of stealing documents from M. Thiers’ residence in Paris and obtained £50 damages 10 Feb. 1874; author of Polska expeditionen, Malmö, Köpenhamm 1863; Tio Dagar i Warschau, Stockholm 1864; Zwei Regie run gen in Warschau, Wien 1866; S. Poles v. The Times, action for libel in reference to papers of M. A. Thiers 1874; The actual condition of the British Museum, a literary expostulation by Stefan Poles, London H. S. Warr 63 High Holborn 1875. d. Middle sex hospital, London about 22 Nov. 1875. Times 26 Nov. 1875 p. 7. Note. —The World of 24 Nov. 1875 p. 14 insinuates that his real name was Tugenhold, a converted Jew and Ru ian spy, son to the chief Rabbi of Warsaw, who was censor of the pre there previous to the last uprising. His pamphlet on the British Museum was sold in Ru ell st. in front of the building by a sandwich man, but it is now very scarce. In this work John Winter Jones the secretary and chief librarian with a clique of his friends are denounced in strong language. Some of the Museum officials furnished information for the compilation of the pamphlet.