The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-03
NO FICTION IN THIS.
The True Story of an Oft.AIIeged
Countess.
IT Begins With a Baby and Winds Up at
the Court Of st. Petersburg-A Ro-
nance Of Real Life.

"The child will be called Grace Green
wood till further orders"
1t is small matter in itself. but in the
near future ii may mean something consid-
cradle.
San Francisco has furnished two heir
esses already. Florence Blythe and Ida
Green, otherwise the Baroness ven Barne-
kow.
Yesterday CALL reporter encountered
man who was evidently greatly exercised in
his mind. The man was Peter John Ruloh-
vosbask who claims to be the father of
'GIace Greenwood" and also claims that
she is countess of Roly Russia, by proxy
of course. Meanwhile Grace Greenwood is
an inmate of the Infants Shelter at 5l2
Minna street, wherein she has been boarder
since September !, about which date she
was transferred from the City Prison Hos
ptal.
On September 4 Rulohvosbaski appeared
In person at the hospital and delivered to
Prison Matron Gilmore. with many tears. a
girl baby, claiming that the latter had been
deserted by her mother and that he was no
longer able to take care Of her. The child
was promptly transferred to the Infants
Shelter on Minna street. where she has since
remained. The matron does not hesitate to
n
the little one has but recently and imper-
feetly recovered from an attack of whOoping
cough, she has already childleSs LADY friends
who are willing to adopt her.
THE CHILD.
Rulohyosbaski saws that the child is his.
and that he put IN the claim against Secre-
tary Holbrook of the Society for the Pre-
yention OF Cruelty to Children, because OF
an-powe rful paternal impulses. In support
of this Rulohvosbaski urges that he is the
victim Of circumstances. and that no one
knows how dear one Jenny Lind was to him
and how false one Sarah Clarke has been to
him.
In this connection there appear sundry
court records which throw iurid light ON
the case.
1t is admitted that Rulohvosbaskl ap-
peared on September at the City Prison
Hospital and declared to the matron that
the girl child left in her charge would be
countess some day, though he was then I'M
able TO care for her.
1t is also of record that RuIohyoshash
turned up in Los Angeles in connection
with the suit against Lawyer Hunsbaeke
of that city. Among the charges was that
Bunsbacker had drawn $500 from a GER
tain bank TO establish saloon on Spring
street Los Angeles, which was being run
In a benevolent connection with a Mrs.
Clarke
Rulohvosbaski does not exactly know
whether Mrs. Clarke is his wife or not. He
and in partnership in restaurant business
on Third street He admits that lie lived
with her at 200 California street "as his
wife" but says she is not the mother of his
child. The real mother, he says. is Jenny
Lind. in no way related to the sweet singer
of that ilk. His Jenny Lind died at Para.
Brazil, in the early part of last year.
This Jennie Lind business has gotten
Rulohy0ebaski into considerable trouble in
directly. because II is claimed by the Clarke
contingent that he was married to her. The
Russian says he is not bgamist; that
though he was actually married TO Mrs.
Clarke he was never married TO Jennie
Lind. though they lived together fer great
number of years.
RULOHvOsBARKIs RELATIONS.
Tie court records before referred to show
that Mrs. Sarah J. Clarke was formerly tile
wife of Charles Clarke Of this city and was
married to him in Manchester, England.
On June T. 1891, she instituted divorce
suit against Clarke, which terminated in
her favor in July. By the terms of the
decision she received $4,000 and attorneys
fees.
Shortly after the divorce proceedings
Rulohv0sbaski was arrested for trying to
shoot the woman on the street. He was
held to answer on a charge Of assault with
deadly weapon, with bail set at $1,000. 1t
was alleged, among other things, that be
was trying &c get some eff the woman's
money. He was heldiuntil August u, when
jury IN Judge Heobard's court returned
verdict of not guilty ii the absence of the
prosecuting witness.
1t is also unofficially Cd record that
Rulohyosbaski attempted to commit suicide
on the Oakland ferry boat in August of last
year.
AS to the statement that ''the Count is
not known to be on the roll of the Russian
nobility. he himself claims that this is be-
cause his nobility comes from the mothers
side, and she has been absent from Russia
for a number of years. He exhibited let
ter TO CALL reporter, dated Hanover,
Germany, from his mother, Paulina Botus.
as follows: concerning your name, Count
Peter John Rulobyasbaski, we will gladly
state herewith that your uncle on the
mothers side has adopted you as his son,
and left you in his testament 40, eco marks
$4,000 because he Is childIess and he does
not wish that his name shall die out. The
only consideration is that you will take up
his name. At the same time the parents and
uncles have been very dissatisfied that you
have gone to America, and will furnish you
no assistance as long as you stay there"
Rulohv0sbaski conducts a small watch
repairing business on the corner Of Wash
ington and Montgomery streets.
The child Is a delicate-looking little thing
but the matron at the Infants Shelter
claims that il will thrive and startIe the
world some day. Rulohyasbaski says his
mother Is a eous n OF one of the DolgOroukis,
a noble Russian family, close to royalty.