Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-07
BLUE BLOOD ROMANCE.
A Count whs wss Buried q The Pet.
teris Field.

NEW YoRr, March 6-The body Of Joseph
Msngersdorf, q wealthy German cosnt wsa
died at Rosevelt Hospital, May %, 1880, Is
resting at Potter's field, while his claimants,
who have just succeeded in tracing him up,
are about contesting their respective titles
to his fortune on the grounds Of legal mar.
risge. The aristocratic family Of the Count,
at the same time, turn Q deaf ear to both
claimants, and will probably interpose all
obstacles possible to prevent q speedy set
tlement of the estate. The young Counts
parents placed him at Heidelberg for the
purpose of fitting him for professional ca
reer, but before receiving all his degrees he
became addicted TO fast living, and, like
most gay young bloodS, he was soon deeply
involved in love intrigues.
Among His Fair Eaalavers
was one in PARTICULAR pretty peasant
girl, who lived beside the Secksr under the
shades Of the Geisberg. He took her TO
the old baronial mansion and asked the
consent and blessing OF his parents, but
they opposed the match to the bitter end,
and the discounted young man gathered
up his available funds and left home to
wander over the continent, After few
years Of extreme unhappiness he rejoinsd
his Heidelberg lass and sailed for America
They arrived In New York early in 1877.
and were soon after married by the Rev.
Dr. Reagner at the Lutheran church In
Sixth street. They went to housekeeping
in Nineteenth street snd lived in hrst-class
style moving in
rbe Best German Society
and making many warm friends. With all
the characteristics OF the industrious. Ger.
al..N l. -sV... IA.N I.s.k kAN
about for business, and with his recon.
mendations he had no trouble In securing
position. He was employed some months
at wholesale chemical house, and at an
other time he was the American agent for
large German cloth house. He did good
business and added TO his bank account.
His taste for fast life returned to him, how.
ever, and he left his steady, thrifty peasant
wife and rented rooms in West Thirtieth
street and boarded at the Gilsey House. He
entertained his new acquaintances in fine
style and was reticent about his past life
1t is said that he run through s, 900 In
thee months. As be was now moving In
an entirely different class OF society, his old
friends were eflectually cut of, and acci-
dent never threw them in his way. They
thought he had fed the country or com.
mited suicide under temporary insanity.
He Fell In Love
with Washington lady, who was prom
Using candidate for STAGE honors. They
were married before Notary Public In
New York, and the certificate was sent TO
the Board Of Health for record. II was
submitted to the counsel for the Board OF
Health and respectfully returned, with the
memorandum that the statutes did not
recognize a marriage bya Notary. After.
several months the Count turned Hp at
Roosevelt Hospital, Fifty-ninth street and
Central Park, without trace as to his
identity, and died May 20, 1850, AMI was
sent 70 the morgue May % His photo
graph was taken by Mr.. @. G. Mason, pho
togrspher OF the morgue, and the body of
tie Count was
buried In the POtteP'a Field.
His first wife employed man 70 look for
him. The second wife had detective out
on the same mission. About two weeks
since several parties applied TO Mr.. White,
Keeper of the Morgue, and identified pho
toeraph as that OF the missing Count His
effects and the record OF the case were in
cabinet locked up and the key had been
lost. A locksmith was brought last week,
and the rusty lock forced. The Morgue
photograph showed a face perhaps fifty
years old, while the friends claimed that
the Count was only thirty eight. The
other evidence however. Tailed with the
statement of the claimants, and the body
and effects were placed subject to their
order. Mrs Mangersdoir has retained
lawyer to present her case before the Sur
rogate. Wife No. 2 will be presented by
another lawyer. The counts fortune Is
estimated at $4,000.