The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-03-09
A LUCKY LocKsMITH.
From Abject Poverty to q Cor0net and Vast
F0rtnne-A Fathers Death bed Repentance.
IErort thQ NJ " Marcurv

FROM ApJecC fOVerU 10 COr0het ana vast
Fortuns-A Fathers Death bed Repentance.
From the N. Y. Mereury.1
One year ago Jacob Heydebrand was
a poor locksmith at No. 1l6 Hester street.
One day, while on Fulton ferryb boat,
he met an acquaintance, who asked MIN
il he was not Jacob Heydebrand whom
the Austrian Consulate was advertising
for. His friend had some difficulty in
persuading him to go to the Consulate
and ascertain whether ornot he was the
person wanted. At tho Consulate he
was asked IL he had beenin 1850 at Rock
enheim, near Frank ort-on-the Main.
He replied in the affirmative. "Did
you board there with fam ly named
Schoen, and did you ever meet at their
house an Austrian officerr' Heydebrandt
replied again in the affirmative. "What
was the name of that ofticer?" sTt was
Count Jacob Won HeydeDrand. He was
Captain in the Ninth Regiment Of Aus
trian Hussars," he answered. swell,
you are the man We want" So saying,
the Consul handed the astonished lock
smith bundle of documents, which he
said he had better have examined by
some German lawyer, and he also in
formed him that he was instructed to
pay him the sum Of $1,000.
The German lawyer to whom Heyde-
brand gave the papers was greatly sur
prtsed at their contents, which were to
the following effect: Couut Aloysius
Won Heydebrand, a wealthy noBleman,
had died in 1872, having confessed on
nis death-bed that the Austrian officer,
Colonel Jacob Won Heydebrand, who
mad hitherto passed as his only son, was
only an iilegitimate child, his real son
and heir, WHO had borne the same name
having been set adrift in the world after
his mother had died, by his mistress,
Berhardine Hveizel, who had borne him
!, son about that time.
That wicked woman had possessed
such q power over him that she had
wruBg from him the consent to substi-
Lutte her son in the place Of little Jacob,
whom she had taken to her relations in
Darmstadt. The old count employed his
illegltimate son, the Austrian Colonel.
10 leave nothing undone in order to
make amends for the great injustice
that had been done to his legitimate heir.
and TO restore to him, if ne should be
able to ascertain his Whereabouts, his
paternal estate.
1t was then the Colonel remembered
having met at BToekenheim, twenty-five
years before, a young locksmith, whose
acquaintance he had sought because the
latter had borne the same name. So he
applied to the Schoen family, who were
still living at Brockenheim, and from
them he obtained the information that
The young locksmith had left that place
many years ago for America. The Col
mel thereupon applied to the Austrian
legation in Washington, and Jacob Hey-
deprand was extensively advertised lor,
until found In New York.
Among the papers was an autograph
rom lis illegiLimate brother, the Colo
nei, ouering TO restore his paternai es-
.ates TO hiia, and expressing regrets at
tue Injustice that had been done To him
iur SO many years. Meanwhile ueyde-
lrand had married poor German
,eIyant girl, who had borne tv MIN
teverei ehiidren. The wife was
yerjcyed upon learning the unex-