New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-03
THE MYSTERIOUS CORNELIUS HERR.
NOT A GERMAN--BoHS IN FRANCE. he Is AN
AMERICAS CrIIZEN-nIS FINANCIAL
RELATIONS WITH EFINACU

RELATIONS WITH RFINACI.
There have been published IN Europe recently some
things concerning Cornelius Herr. whose name has
figured so prominently io the Panama scandal. He
was considered the evil genius Of Baron de Rcinach
NJ Eouv!cr. ". Frytnct. VI. Clcncncean and some
other nnanciTs. Ministers or Deputies. lie was
represented as being German Iorn and PGiissian
spy 80 smart as have gained The confidence Ct tho
French Government, which made him grand onccr
Of tie Legion OF Honor only eight years after he had
obiaacd The Knights cross. All this may be true ana
sce weight is evidently 70 be attached 70 these storie,
from the fact that Cornelius Herr has returned to
paris nd plsce1 himself at tie sposon OF the Judge
OR tho eating committee. etll II may be proper
TO give the other side Of The story, as presented Ds
Mr. Herr himself, In an interview N London with a
representative OF FL Echo de Paris H. the presence
Of a personagc Of some importance. whose nafnc IL IS
said will be furnished by the newspaper III case tue
cenuiness Of the Interview should be doubted
Mr. Herr first declared that he IS not OF German
ro,ionality Those he said, =" who speak OF me ~
a Ravarlan have never PIT their noses III my "'''
ccrtIGcate was born at Besancon. In Eastern
France from German parents II Is Flc' bht you sec
tAls nationality had not been for long "ie 'h' q
my family Nv father and mother established them
clves In the United sates forty years ago. and
,ore naturalizcd American citizens. became there
forc an American, and my children being born III
France arc French for the law IS positive. IL SN'
that children born In France. from foreign ther VINO
was himself born there, are French
II NAV be remarked. that. according 10 some Ger
man papers. Cornelius IIcrz's father was brought up
t the Orphanare OF Worms ana was taught the trade
| ., , boorhjnder by a Hebrew benevolent ASSOCIATION.
lie wen, n Besarcon failed in business, dsapprari
! and IN 1850 thc French Government as"c' ~"
| authorities OF Worms to arrest him, II lie ever "P
| peared there. This has not been dohe' however i'
| the same German papers say that Mr. iieH i'''V
! returned TO Worms in 1ooI and lived there as a
drntfi lat
| lncyality Of his Cornelius
As 10 his alleged participation In The Panama
| affair Cornelius Herr declared that such was h''
| ,be case At the time when attempts at corruption
| were made he living at Frankfort, and he h'1
ot set hi, foot on q I'm the paals Bourbon, VII re
the French Clambef Of Deputies holds It's sittn65'
j.. IN Jnly 1855" he said, Il received at Frankfort
from, norcn de Reinach checks OF 1OOOOJo francs
each They hal nothing TO do with the Panama ahnir /
vos NJ Eeinach's creditor for II considerable s'iiI a.
| ,he result of several enterprises and financial com
naons relative 10 the telephone tie Marcel DcSpres
| transmission OF power ard o'hcr inventions. haa
made frequent requests Of u. Reinach In regard t.
,nys reimbursement and at last received the Two
| rI"c.e atoye mentioned. The origin Of that money
| T., ea~,Ir traced NJ Renach had first pocketed from
! the Panama Company large sum destined u i
su.cied use and he had appropriated from thnt sum
| o 600 900 francs whcrcwith to pay me portion VI
! hi, indebtedness. ,.., .,,.
| Wien ] got thc tWo 'h''rN' "'f'
with the Eothschds of Frankfort who were 10 nave
| ,, co.b.I u, fine Rothschllds OF Paris which was
HDo II IL easy for the judge or the INVESTIGATING
cp,mmittee 10 ascertain that ti',r 2OP;:oo' ; na @ .c
lam an nlovcl for my private Affairs ans tha' every
idr"rYaI of any part Of that money cor SPonu'
viii INV purchase Of some real estate ~ rai'S @
! Lrcks Of The Rothscdhs and those oi hS notary
| A., rontonu viii prove II sa'i iacoily" -, ,, .
it will bc remembered IN c9nncc'om rd wo,n ''' Isd f.
lion of NJ Hers story that II was rumorcd 49, ~
| In that n Rcinacis sucid" was 10 be al!rln
n"t 20 much 10 the fact that hr lad nu"inpui !,
norriut Iccislators and Ministers Us TO ms ielrs :"
Ioin" condemned for having appropriated TO his own
vsn ono of the funds int:rsted to nm ny ,hc ia,
! 1,eor,o W. comunnv II. IIorz ends nis story by
t,ainr that he did not leave Paris hnr'iedy a,
reported on hearing OF ~ RcnaShs u@ a 1" occmr
renee before proceeding 10 London, where he geheraiS
| sncnds the winter season