New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-10-21
4 A Strange
" oman.
Fran Dr.. Prof. Elisabeth Greilich Turns up
in this City.
She Tells Strange Story and Surrounds
Herself with Mystery.
Her Visit Brought to q Sensational Close
on Friday.

The readers of the Minneapolis Times
will remember that in the Sunday issue
of October 4th there appeared an inter
estlng and mysterious story regarding
one Frau DR.. Prof. Elizabeth Grellich.
In this story, related by herself to the
city editor of the Times, Frau Greilich
represented that she was of distinguished
.parentage; that her mother was the cele-
Drated German novelist, Marlett; and that
Emporer William was her godfather. She
herself was the widow of DR.. Prof. Grei-
Itch and was to be married soon to no.
BILE and wealthy German count. She was
quite literary woman herself, she said,
and had written many novels, some of
which had been translated into English
by Dr.Steln of Newark, New Jersey. Her
two sisters were also of high rank in Ger
man society and with their husbands
were on their way to Minneapolis to
meet the subject of this strange story.
They were all possessed of great musical
talent, she claimed, and were giving con-
certs IN the larger cities for the cause of
charity. One OF these was to he present.
ed in Minneapolis and Frau Greilich saw
to it that the program of the concert was
printed in all of the daily papers. All
this happened while Frau Greilich was at
the home of the City Editor of the Times
as house-maid, claiming that she was
desirous of studying American servant
life by practicing it herself. She was
decidedly anxious that her story should
appear in the Times ,but that paper kept
it off for the sake of investigations When
it finally did appear, it was accompanied
by & complete expose in another column.
It was found that Marlett never had any
children, that DR.. Stem never existed,
that DR.. Prof. Greillch was a stranger to
fame and that all of her relatives, if she
really had any, were quietly Willing d.
way their time in Germany, for none of
any prominence were making concert
tour of America. About the time that
this expose appeared, Frau Greilich left
Minneapolis and the woman with whom
she had associated, Mrs. Wommer, was
at loss to explain her departure.
About the same time a strange woman
came to this city. She claimed to have
come direct from Chicago, but the fact
that she didn't seem to have any partic-
ular mission excep: to seek housework,
while being apparently cultured and un-
used to manual labor, caused the local
correspondent OF the Times tc start
quiet investigation. During her stay in
the city, she stopped at the leading ho-
tel. She hesitated at first about disclos-
ing her name, but finally gave it as Anna
Thielscher, Notwithstanding the fact that
she always wore scarf pin, bearing the
word Elizabeth. Thereafter from day
to day she told scraps of her story, fire.
quently conflicting, always mysterious,
but harmonizing in nearly every respect,
except as to the concert story, with that
given in the: Times. After time she
admitted having been in Minneapolis.
She also showed a photograph of her
late husbands DR.. Prof., she says
correspondingly exactly to the Times like
ness, She also accidentally showed col
lection of German poetry which she
claimed to have written, but all of which
was signed elizabeth Gre1llch'' When
confronted with the conflict between her
claim to authorship and the signature,
she hastily tried to explain by saying
that the signature was that Of a friend
of hers.
Her story and her actions were mys-
ferrous throughout. They would lead
one to believe thatshe was either deeply
worried over past troubles or. else
cleverly playing upon the credulity of
the few whom she met. She constant
~ said she wanted work, but made no
effort to secure it, She secretly watched
the Minneapolis papers closely. Every
thing she told she did cleverly and if it
.didn'tjib with some previous statement,
she was smooth enough to etaround It.
Saturday another striking chapter was
added to the strange. story Of this very
strange woman. When the hotel clerk
passed her room IN the Dakota House at
$ o'clock in the morning, he heard loud
moans, as if the inmate. was suffering
great pain. Later on doctor was called