The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Feb. 21.

MARL BOROUGH-STREE I'.—THE EXTRAOR-
DINARY CASE.—The case of conspiracy, fraud, and
perjury was resumed before Mr. Beadon, against
Eliza Von Welzenstein, of 56, Greek-street, Soho,

milliner, Herman Freick, of the same address, ca•
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binet-maker, Magdalena Jordan, of 40, Mount-
street, Grosvenor-square, and the husband of the
first-named prisoner, Edward Von Welzenstein,
subsequently apprehended, for conspiracy with
another not in custody, by divers, unlawful, and
fraudulent ways, means, stratagems, devices,
threats, menaces, and false pretences to obtain of
.and from one Joseph Stohwasser, of Conduit-
street, about £3OO of his moneys, with the intent
to cheat and defraud him of the same.

The same learned gentlemen attended as before.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Edward Lewis, of
Marlborough-street, for the prosecution ; and Mr.
Lewis, of Ely-place, for the defence of Jordan, with
Mr. Evans, John•street, Bedford-row, for the
others.

The facts of the evidence on the prcvions exami-
nations have been already fully reported, and so

recently that it is not considered necessary to re-
trace them.

Mr. Sleigh, in a brief speech, having :e-opened
the case, the depositions of the first hearing, affect-
ing the man Welzenstein, was re•sworn to and read
over for his guidance and information. This done,
the prosecutor resumed as follows :
Madame Welzenstein, lived in Charlotte-street.
She had said the child I saw, and which she on one

occasion brought to my shop, was hers. After the
redemption of the pledged articles she fell ill, up
to which time I had not seen the husband. She in-

,roduced him as Sternfeldt, and she sent him to me
o consider what was best to be done for her affairs.

He came to my house. He is the prisoner now at
the bar. He said he was a friend of Madame's
husband, and had served in the army with him in
the same regiment, and took great interest in her
welfare, and he himself lived out of town, allowing
her the use of the apartments in Charlotte-street.
That this was through the illness of his o•wn wife.
He said her husband went in the May previous to
America, to find or look up his uncle, and he was
surprised he had not returned, for they had had no
communication from him since he had been away.
He told me he had himself relieved her as far as his
circumstances weed permit, but that was insuffi-
cient—that she was very clever in needlework and
such like, and if she were aided by means could get
her living. He said he himself was a refugee, and
could not go home. He would give her a good
character, and he said that her husband was a most
excellent man. At that time she was ill, and I
sent at my own expense Dr. Love, my own physi-
cian, I called very often on her. I saw him on one
occasion at Charlotte-street when I called on her,
and it was early in December. That time I had
some information from others that Sternfeldt was
her husband. That in formation was from Capt. Korn.
On seeing her I told her what I had heard ; this was
in a cab iu which I had gone because it was wet. She
said Korn was a disreputable character, and I ought
not to listen to him, denying strongly there was any
foundation for the assertion. I requested Freick to
come to the German club, and he said" why you ought
to have known Korn was a liar," and he regretted
his sister was Korn's wife, and said the statement
of Korn was altogether untrue, for Sternfeldt and
Madame Welzenstein!were not man and wife. The
following day I saw Korn again and had a conver-
sation with him on the subject. Two or three
weeks after I spoke to the defendant Jordan, whom
I had first seen at Charlotte-street, while Madame
was ill. She was in her apartment. She was then
calling herself Madame Poulouska. I told her what
I had been informed, and she requested me to tell
her who had informed me Madame and Sternfeldt
were married. It had been told me the child was
a borrowed child, and this Madame Jordan said was
not true. I told her who had informed me, and
she said he was a disreputable person. Two or
three days after she called and requested me to go
to Madame's, and test the story of the child. I did
so, and found Madame Bordfeldt in the room with
Madame ; the child was playing about the floor,
and had been sent into an adjoining room for
MadamoWelzenstein, and then Madame Jordan said
" I hope you are now satisfied." The child had
been told to fetch her mother, and said in German
" That," pointing to Madame Bordfeldt, " is my
aunt Bord feldt." It was between eight and nine in
the evening Madame Welzenstein expressed much
gratitude to me, when alone in the room, bending
over me rather low, and taking my hands and kiss-
ing them, calling me her " saviour.' While evinc-
ing her feeling this way, the door opened, and she
ran towards it. I saw no one else for five minutes.
I said, " Who is that ?" She said "It is Sternfeldt,"
and she went into the adjoining room, where I
heard his voice, saying he would not permit such
familiar intercourses. I waited some time longer,
and no one coming in I left the room, and the house.
I heard the defendant, Madame Welzenstein swear
in the Court of Queen's Bench, that in effect I en-
deavoured to take liberties with her on that occa-
sion by trying to get her on my knee.
Mr. Beadon said if Mr. Sleigh intended to go into
the case of perjury, distinct evidence must be given
for that, but if he stated he intended to indict for
that, he must be asked to bind over for that speci-
fic offence. It would be better to take that which
he considered the strongest case, and keep to it.
Prosecutor continuing—The evidence she gave
on oath was utterly false. The male defendant
Welzenstein's evidence on this subject was also
false.
The shorthand writers of the Court of Queen's
Bench, Messrs. Bennett and Ibbett, here put in a

copy of the proceedings front 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 sae 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 Sternfeldt. (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 Sternfeldt'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 Eccleston-
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 far:
niture for the lower part of the primises; and rod—
ceived from her the I 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 suspect 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 Embassy, 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 Mav, in
which he asks for £22 to pay a little bill, and let
him have it. I continued to receive letters from
him, and soma 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 male
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 evilenee, being a quarter
past five, it was suggested that another remand
should be granted, and a week hence was fixed on.

THE F :7.4L ACCIDENT ON TIIE
EASTERN. COUNTIES RAILWAY

The accident on the Eastern Counties Railway
has, we regret to say, produced far more disastrois
results than was at first imagined. Not only has
another name been added to the killed, but the

list of wounded has been augmented, and in nearly

every instance the injuries have been ascertained Co
be more than usually serious.
Yesterday we stated that the engine-driver, Wm.
Rowell, was lying at the station in a very precarious
condition, and that it was probable he would not
live through the night. This anticipation, unfor-
nately, proved too well-grounded, for the poor fel-
low expired during the evening. From the moment
he was taken from beneath the engine he never
for a single instant recovered his consciousness,
and almost imperceptibly ceased to breathe.
After his death the full extent of his injuries