The morning call., 1892-10-22
HE LIVED LIKE 4 LORD.
E. Schroeder Turns Out to
Be a Count.
DISOWNED BY HIS FAMILY
Regulated for Marrying an Actress He
Comes to This Country and Lives
on Diamonds.

1t now transpires that E. Schroeder, who
conducted a tourists guide Office UP to
within few weeks ago. is an exiled Rus
sian nobleman. In his efforts to make
money without labor he succumbed to the
Inevitable and hastily left the city. as also
a few mourning creditors. few weeks
ago.
He came to this city from New York on
| July %, accompanied by woman whom he
| claimed to be his wife. The pair registered
at the American Exchange on Sansome
street. where he gave the name OF "E.
! Schroeder"
They we're assigned TO room In that
hostelry, where they conducted themselves
with all due propriety.
Schroeder is described as being a hand
some specimen Of manhood. He is tall.
dignifed in his bearing and spOrted fine
blonde moustache and goatee.
His wife was a beauty" so those say
who saw her. She was above the ordinary
height, of voiuptuous build and blonde.
The pair were given the best accommoda-
tions in the house, which were promptly
paid for week in advance.
About September l a cablegram was de-
livered to the day clerk which called for
charges amounting to S23. The clerk was
10th To pay such an amount out for strange
guest, SO the bearer was directed TO return
when Schroeder was in.
During the early part of the evening the
cablegram was redelivered and Schroeder
promptly paid the charges. He opened the
missive with considerable show of mis-
giving, but when he had PARTIALLY read it
he gave every evidence that it contained
good news by hurrahlDg and shouting Ike
q madman.
He dashed out of the hotel Office and
rushed upstairs TO his wife with all due
celebrity. The next day he appeared in the
Office flushed with excitement and invited
everybody who would go with him to
neiGhboring resort.
There he astonished his guests by order
ing champagne in cargo lots. He kept up
this lavish display of generosity all the
afternoon and until way into the night.
The places of those who went away unable
to stand tho strain of the unexpected hos
pitelity Schroeder filled with new recruits.
After the champagne had filled every
available nook and Granny in his head
Schroeder returned 10 the hotel office. He
was far from being subdued. however. for
he invited }. +. Wiseman, one of the pro-
prietOrs of the place, to seat beside him.
He electrified him by venturing the informa-
tion that his name was not Schroeder, but
that he was Russian Count.
He fortified his statements by exhibiting
a package of pawn tickets for jewelrY that
he had hypOthecated while in New York.
Wiseman states that the tickets showed that
Schroeder had at least got in the neighbor-
hood Of $4,000 on his diamonds. Not con-
tent with this the lOGuaeiOus Russian pulled
a handful of diamonds from his pocket
which were set in rings, pins and other
fancies.
| After all this exhibition of his property
| in posse and in escrow Schroeder began to
/ tell The story of his life. He said he was
/ Count ana came of a high and wealthy
! Russian family. He was exiled from home
| on account of his marriage which angered
! his parents.
HIS wife, he said, was German actress,
| and he became infatuated with her in Ber-
lin, where he saw her first on The stage. He
sought an acquaintance, and, after few
DAYS Of love-lnaking, he became legally mar
ried TO her.
Then his family got wind of his mis-
| alliance, and being proud ana naughty they
disdaned receiving an actress Into their
| home, and the son was cut adrft with the
| injunction never to enter their doors.
He soon ran through what cash he had,
| and appealing TO some of his relatives he
| received a considerable sum. This he ex-
| pended on high living. He then went TO
! New York, where he landed almost penni-
! less. He had $4,000 worth of diamonds
with him, which he soon placed in the
| pawnsh0ps and came to this city.
| On August he left the American Ex-
change and took up his residence at S67
Mission street. He opened an office to
supply tourists with guides and delYed into
detective work.
He borrowed heavily, and suddenly left
the city about month ago without leaving
the least bit of information as to where his
destination was.