Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-14
THE USUAL LESSON.
A Baltimore Girl Whe Married a Bogus
Count.

A London special to the New York World,
MAY IL. says On one of the homeward-bound
ships. which left Liverpool this week. is an
American girl, who married a man for his title
and who came abroad TO learn the usual bitter
lesson. Her story as she told it to the World
correspondent within an hour Of her departure
for New York is substantially as follows
Two years ago she was known as Miss Con-
stable, living at Baltimore, well connected and
with enough to enable her to go to New York
TO study music. She went to a boarding house
ON East 18th street near the American school
OF opera. and there met Baron +. E. Won Su-
crow, who was introduced to her by an Eng
iIshman, fellow boarder. NJ. Won Sucrow was
good-looklng. plausible talker. and claimed
70 De an oiBcer IN the German army with an es-
tate and big income. At the clearinghouse
III question Miss Constable was believed to have
a fortune of her own.
THE BARON MADE LOVE,
proposed, was accepted. and was married with
very little inquiry on Miss Constable's part as
TO the truth about his alleged connections
abroad. The wedding took place. so Mrs. Won
Sucrow says. on September Is lsst at st. Pauls
church, Baltimore, and was performed by the
Rev. DIR. Hedges. There was also civil cere-
mony at the city hail. Philadelphia. performed
By Mayor Filter. After brief tour NJ de
SucrOw ana his wife went back to the nth
street clearinghouse. The baron soon discOv-
cred that he had married a poor girl. and she.
on her side. was brought to realize that If he
had large fortune Ill Germany, he had at any
rate very little ready money with him. He
told her a long yarn about the anger of his
parents at his marriage, in consequence of
which he declared his remittances had not
come to hand. His wife believed him. He
made her borrow enough from her friends to
get along with, Finally he started for Europe
a few weeks ago. ostensibly to look after his
fortune and estate.
In a very short time his wife became con-
WINGED that be did not mean to come back
She therefore started after him. and on her
arrival here put up at the Langham hotel
SHE HAD TO PAWN HER WEDDING RING
and other jewelry to pay her bill during the
first weeks. Last Tuesday she had no money
left to pay the account due, and was told that
she would have to leave. In dire distress she
went to the American legation and told the
charge daffaires, Mr.. Henry White, practically
the same story as she told the World CORE
spOndent, except that she mentioned the name
OF one OF her cousins, who is the wife of Mr.
John Kinnard, OF APO north 4th street st. Louis
and that she mentioned friends several
people in Baltimore and Washington whom Mr.
White knew. She said that she knew LAWYER
Hornbiower. OF New York, and declared that
she should put the case in his hands when she
got home.
The woman's appearance and refined man.
ners impressed Mr.. White, and he wired to
Berlin to find out just who Baron Won Sucrow
was. The answer came promptly to the effect
that no such man was connected with the Ger
man army, and that there was no such man
owning any estate in Germany. SO far as can
be ascertained his inquiries at the German
embassy here have been equally fruitless The
men in Berlin and London whom the bogus
baron claimed his intimate friends have de-
clared that they never knew him.
no Tant han, h,,tn tbo
ent was told that a man giving that name used
to call there for letters, but never stopped
there. Finally the woman became convinced
that she had been duped by une-hunter
and then deserted. Mir White exerted him
self among a few friends and raised money
enough to pay hotel bills to get the wedding
ring out Of pawn and to buy ticket back to
America.