Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-08-19
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AR. George GiieAen, alias O.. Glirpit.. M n
df'ds ksnasd, ALIAS Count De GlicA,n r.,'
sonage bearing the above stock of aliases has
oeen nourishing about In high society in a num-
oer OF cines ana places Of fashionable resort for
some tlme past, and has lately paid visit 10 ,hi
cl'y he turned up first In Baltjmore ss ,
p d,n, as unc late travelling companion of the
rr'nce Oh Wurternburg;" made the acousipt,nce
OF number OF the first families In tb.t o;.
Whefe ne so far won the confidence ~ = a,..sy'
guIsneu gentleman there, formerly memhs, -,
oongress from MARYLAND, and now high govern.
ent oIclai In that State, to be the recinent Of
certain loans of money from him mi, PEN .,
promise To pay on his arrival i'm Washinatnn
wnete ne mad credit, he said, with the CHEZ ~
e ,ussIdh Legation. We next hear OF him
III AhnaPohs, Md, where he represented him
sell as a Prussian Count of extepsiv. ,.,aI.t In
SORT OF Sir Charles Coldstream who bavinn e.
.. %oG 'ne pleasures of the world and found
nothlng In Them had come IN SOL h.r 1911
IN solitude with the Redemntioni.t n pIness
Sathollc Institution. He rapidly became nonnI.,
ner,j spent money like a prince and beca,pe in
uUuo,e quick TINE intimate with the most ipfII-
ehtdl families, in whose society he seems IN hav,
repCnted OF his rash vow To become = h,otbsr e,,
ne became snitten with beautiful and accom-
phsheo Young lady, and rurnor said thew were
tdss s 70 De married A number of costly pres
ells OF JeweITy which he made her seems TO have
confirmed this idea. when some deyelopmepts
,hhechd with the loss of property at the Insti-
aute OF hedemPtionist Brothers caused him to be
suspected. HIS creditors began to look up their
balances against him, and soon learned to their
cost that his drifts were worthless He was wait
ed upon by number Of young men who rave
using. = NV s An
lie Then turns UP in Washington where he
stayed at Willard s Hotel as the Count DE C;IicL
en, ahG probably with view TO using his auto
&ldph IN his schemes, wrote polite note to
Representative here Of Foreign nation, request
never caea o 1pd time Ssey1d Telf re S s
his appearance" at varions Virginia watering
places, the travelling companion of a celebrated
basso pr0fundo opera singer. In this trip he
writes his name on the books as plain G Cir
witt; but on his visiting cards he writes George
Glirwitz, Nj. ID. At the White sulphur and
sweet Springs, he cut gallant figure and moved
In the very best society. lie next turned up
among the good citizen, of Iuthersville Md
about nj ne miles from Baltimore city, where he
expressed Lutheran proclivites and talked OF
studying for the Lutheran ministry. This idea he
also carried with him to Gettysburg and present.
ing himself at the THEOLOGICAL Seminary there,
protfercd letters Of Introduction from number Of
highly respectable Lutheran ministers describing
him as Lutheran by birth, education, and con-
viction. At Gettysburg, he remained until ID was
ascertaned that he had been quite recently an in
mate OF the Redemptionists Institution near An
napolls, where he got another ticket Of leave
From 6ettysburg he writes an affecting letter to
his honorable friend at Baltimore, assuring him
that he will make that little bill all right in the
fall, and announcing that he is going to start
tomorrow for Europe. This letter he en-
this city, signing himself - Kenaudr =, and re-
quests him to mail il to its address from Wash
ington, Is he desires il to bear Washington
postmark.
His honorable friend in Baltimore makes ipoui-
ries Of the Count, and learns too late that he has
been sold. He teIegrapbs to Capt. Goddard chief
Of police. to look for, and, when found, 10 keep
the noble Prussian. Armed with the necessary
documents, Captain Goddard OH Tuesday last dis
covered the illustrious Count on his arrival here
and conveyed him to Jail for safe keeping, where
he kept him until yesterday afternoon On ina king
the capture the captain tclegraphed To Baltimore
that he had him all right, and desired his accuscr
to come and prefer charges. The victimizcd func-
lonary did not appear, but sent an excuse that he
was sick, and could not come. Count GIichen
was therefore discharged from custody Yesterday
afternoon as there was no operation charged
against him in this city. His weakness through
out seems to have been To correspond with distih-
guished Personages, and, once having obtained
their autographs, to borrow all the cash he could
from willing gulls on the strength of them His
arrest mere at the start has probably spared tt
purses of those Of our citizens who are eve ready
To do homage to foreign title accompanied with
the requisite amount of brass