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PEICE 4D. STAIvIPED, SD•

copy of the proceedings from their shorthand notes,
and deposed to the same being perfectly correct,
and taken from the evidence given before the Lord
Chief Justice.

The substance of the produced notes was that his
wife struggled very hard to get from him (Mr.
Stohwasser), and that he, coming in, tried to jump
on him, and he (Stohwasser) broke from him and
made his escape from the house ; that he (Stoh-
wasser) apologised to him after, and said he was an
old man and not dangerous.
Examination continued—Madame Welzenstein
and Freick came to see isle at the German Club the
same night. I was surprised, and she asked if I
would go back to tell her friend Sternfeldt that
nothing improper had occurred, as it might be im-
' portant to her. I refused, but wrote the next
day to that effect to Stern feldt. (That letter was
called for at the court on the trial, but not pro-
duced.) A fortnight after I saw Sternfeldt at
Madame Poninska's (Jordan's) apartments. I asked
if she knew what Stcrnfeldt's private means were;
and she said his wife had a great deal of jewellery
to dispose of, and that she had seen a duplicate for
a bracelet for £5O at her house ; that his name was
really not Sternfeldt ; but that she was a German
Princess. I forget the name of her alleged august
father—this was confided to me as a great secret.
He was looking out at the time for a house, and he
afterwards told me he had found one in Eceleston-
terrace, and I advised that he should take it in his
real name. He said then that he was Baron Edgar
de Schwannenfelt, and that he had left his native
country in consequence of a duel he had been engaged
in, in which he killed his opponent. He took the
house, and gave Madame Welzenstein £2O for fur-
niture for the lower part of the premises, and re-
ceived from her the 1 0 U produced, the signature
to which is in Sternfeldt's handwriting in the
assumed name of the baron. I advanced this be-
cause it was said money had not come from Vienna
for-him, and I let him have £45 and £3O more, and
received I 0 U's for the same. In the ensuing
March I began to suspoot from certain marks of
familiarity, that Madame Welzenstein was the wife
of Sternfeldt, and spoke to her about it, and she
said it was so, but begged I would not say anything
to him about it. On that occasion she furnished
me with a lengthy document of her life, and I wrote
to him upon the subject, and when subsequently I
saw him and her—it was together—he said as she
had done that, he had deceived the Emba,sy, but
must persist in it now, and that his name was
Welzenstein, of a respectable family; and 1 ageed
to look over the deception, frequently seeing them
afterwards. I produce a letter of the 13th May, in
which he asks for £22 to pay a little bill, and I let
him have it. I continued to receive letters from
him, and some time after he came, and said it was
no use trying to let lodgings, and then wrote to
say he was in difficulties, and I listened to his
prayer, and let him have more money, but sug-
gested that the furniture should be sold to pay his
rent, and he agreed to do so. He put the value of
£73 on his furniture, and it was sent to the sale-
rooms (Oxenham's), and I was handed over £52
4s. 6d., the money it realised, for what I had ad-
vanced altogether for the payment of his rent, by
which I lost a few pounds. After that they went
into lodgings in the neighbourhood of Manchester-
square; subsequently he talked about going to
America, and I gave him £2O, on condition that he
would take his wife with him. He wrote after-
wards to say he was setting out; and, as his wife ,
was ill he could not take her, and hoped I would
assist her. I found an execution had been put in
for rent by a person named Nash, and I paid him
by cheque to clear off the demand £3l, and I let
her have £l6 to take out some pledges. In
about January; 1859, 'Welzenstein again made
his appearance from America. He appealed to me
for further assistance, and I let him have £7 ; but
in March I declined to do anything more for them.
Directly after I was served with notice of action in
the Queen's Bench, for £3OO damages. So far
from this being the case, that I was indebted to
them, they owed money to that amount in sums
partly from charity, and partly from loans. I had
been particularly influenced in the advances by
Madame Poninska (Jordan).
At this stage of the evidence, being a quarter
past five, it was suggested that another remand
should be granted, and a week hence was fixed on.

THE F IAL ACCIDENT ON THE
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY

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