The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11
HOMER WILSON NOT LOST
A Berlin Sensation Of the Disap.
pearance of Two Men
Exploded.
Count NovoSsiltzoff Not a NihiliSt, but
Claims to Be a Wealthy
Nobleman.

In a cable dispatch from Berlin yester-
day it was stated that quite sensation
had been created in that city by the mys-
terious disappearance of two American
gentlemen named Homer Wilson and Pro-
fessor Novi.
This item of sensation lacked somewhat
of the full force of dark and deadly mys-
terry by the locating of one of the dis
appearing persons in the Mills building in
this City by CALL reporter yesterday,
who met and conversed with Homer
Wilson, and from whom the following
account of the disappearance of himself
and the Russian Count from the German
capital was obtained:
There was nothing mysterious about
our appearance in or disappearance from
Berlin" said Mr.. Wilson.
''My acquaintance and trip with Profess
sor Novi occurred in this wise: l had
been well acquainted with Count Novos-
siltzoff, or Alexis Nowy, the name by
which be IS known as an American citi-
zen. | had business in Europe, and know
ing that Nowy was about to go to Russia,
we travelled together as far as Berlin.
Here Mr.. Nowy became Count A. Novos-
siltzoff, and here he met his nephew, Gen
eral TrotZky, who is the military general
many. with the capital at Wilma. Here
by the aid OF General Trotzky the Count
was to obtain passport to visit st. Peters
burg, where he claimed to have sufficient
influence to enable him to recover his
estate, valued at So 600 900, which had been
confiscated by the Car over twenty years
ago.
"Before Count Novossiltzoff left Beclin
he left his daughters in my charge. These
| placed N an American boarding-School,
where they will be properly looked after
until the return of their father from Rus
sia or the arrival OF their mother, who has
suddenly disappeared from this City.
$50 far as my sudden disappearance
from Berlin goes this can hardly be mys-
terious, because I left in company with
Colonel Hovarth and Lieutenant Garfield,
of the Russian army, and we all arrived in
this City on December u, 1895.
"At the present time do not know the
whereabouts of Count NovossiltZoff. Prob
ably he is in Russia. He carries with him
gilt-edge credentials signed by the Secre-
tary of State and the Judges OF the Su-
preme Court at Washington.
THE last saw of him was on Novem-
Der 10, when he left me in Berlin. and |
have no reason to believe that any thing
serious has befallen him. | am at a loss to
understand to what the Berlin correspond
ent could attribute our mysterious disap-
pearance. Ihere IS nOInlng mysterious
about our movements.
''As regards what has been said about
the Count being an impostor, | know OF
my own knowledge that his wife drew
from the Olympia bank, in the State OF
Washington, the sum of $4,000 coming
from the estate of her husband.
This and other matters connected with
him have impressed me with the belief
that what he says about himself and fam
lily is the truth. He is not n1hilist and
has never been charged with any crime
against the Russian Government. His
punishment from Russia was of personal
nature with the Gar. The late Car
Alexander /, fully restored him to favor
but died before the confscated estate had
| been returned to him. 1t is to get this
property that he is now in Russia"