The morning call., 1894-09-08
A GERMAN BARON.
And Something of His
Very Bad Luck.
Recently He Has Been Making
Beds and Such Things for a
Living.

Edward Ludwig Won Egberts. German
nobleman, heir to rich es tates in Hanover,
across the seas, went into the restaurant
of Julius Kaiser last evening at Point Lo-
bos and First avenues and angrily
demanded to know if Julius would pay the
money due him.
For four months the German nobIeman
has been making tn beds and doing other
menial labor In the Kaiser restaurant and
lodging-house, and Kaiser owes him S54
which he refuses to pay.
Kaiser saw that the man meant trouble,
and he fed upstairs.
Won Egberts is in distress, and the
thought that he had done the work of a
cheated out of it had churned his noble
German blood to a frenzy. and selling a
chair he made wreck OF the es lishment l.,
smashing the large front windows end
the mirrors, and completely overturning
the bar
Policemen responded to call and he
was hauled away TO the lookup, wher e,
still laboring under great excitement. he
told his story. The name he regist cred in
the police hooks was Edward Lukes, by
which he is known. He is widower an d
lives at Poin: Lobos and Second avenues.
He is tall and stoutly built and
! his hair and short cropped beard are grav.
| huu DlS OlCSo IL eudl VI q lhODISIs oub Ills
features are strong and his eyes were
blazing with wrath as he said, "But am
a n0bleman."
| Then he went on and told this story
'My father was Henry Ludwig Won Eg-
berts, and he had large estate in the
when, in the time of Napoleon, it was un-
| der the jurisdiction OF the French. NV
! father was captain in Gr0uchy's army at
| Waterloo-the army that didn't come up-
| aud when Waterloo was finished nv father
was poor man. His estate was confs-
Gated. | entered the army as the son of a
nobleman, no wever, at Is years of age. /
didn't have to. but enlisted as private to
serve in and rise from the ranks. After
three months was made q SER
geant, and when | was about to
be commissioned as lieutenant
found that I had had enough
| of the army and resigned. / then went to
sea and have been all over the world. l
came to San Francisco in 1869 and have
| been here ever since, except during short
| trips | have made to Germany. Ihave
made money here, but latterly my luck
has been against me and have been COM
PEELED to do almost anything to make a
living.
''My family still lives in the old country,
| and my sisters and brothers have been
prosecuting suit to recover possession of
our ancestral estates and l only recently
received letEer SCaClng tnat the case had
been decided in our favor. am anxio us
to get back to Germany to look after my
interests there, and have been scrup1-
lously careful in money matters to that
end.
-Four months ago took service with his
man Julius Kaiser. made the beds in his
house and cleaned out the bar and did
other menial service. Finally | saw he
was not going TO pay ,me-that was a
month ago-and l asked him to come out
0lde and settle with me that way, but he
would not. Then l got a revolver, but I
thought better of that. Then l broke o pen
his till before his eyes and took what there
was-a couple of dollars. He had me ar
rested for that but made no charge. To-
night / went round again and demanded
the money and lost all control of myself,
and when he ran away like coward 1
smashed things"
Baron Egberts was discovered to have
81 in his trousers pocket, and well-known
Police Court barrister followed him back
into the inner recesses of the City Jail to
tell him of the immediate necessity OF his
securing legal counsel
Perhaps the ancestral home will be
mortgaged before he is free again.