The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-13
King Ludwig's Grandson Work
Ing in a Jersey City store.
MIKES CLAIM FOR MILLIONS
HIS Mother Was a Daughter of the
Mad Ruler a d AN TX IL d Coz ne -.
Count de Uociisteiten-d oc hstedt
Demands the RestoratiOn of Her
CoBIiscated Estate.

son, even in these extraordinary times but
there is in Jersey City a fioorwalker who
is even grateful for the employment. The
knowledge that he is OF blood that for
centuries ruled European nations. Goes
not deter him from doing his best TO
wIn the favor of his employers, and earn
! the stipend that rewards his lalors.
This modest offspring of royalty Is
Charles de Hochstedt, OF bernstein &
! Co, Jersey City. 10 his friends be is
known as Count Hochstedten- HochsteGt.
he holds papers showing that he is soh
of tl,e Countess Diane Marie Iiochstedten
fiocns cot, natural daughter OF hing Luz
wig, OF bavaria, ana ms rshs To "A IOrtuEe
or 100000 German thalers, the estate
real and personal, OF his mother.
lie has filed d claim TO this property with
the Bavarian governnen
Through his lawyer, Count Iloci.ste'lten-
Hochstedt renewed his effort two weeks
ago in a formal application for the
restoration of the lands, jewels ana money
that were arbitrarily confiscated alter
the upheAVal whicn hurled King Ludwig
from mis- throne ana Swallow ed up tile prop
erty held in her own right 10y the coun.
mother, and which, therefore, under the
Bayarian laws, shoald revert to him.
In Bernstein & Co.'s store may be seen
near the door a slender, mild nhered
man, who VIII attend to your wants with
polite consideration that might once
have belonged TO royal courts, but winch
now is expected in good salesman. lie
isCount HochStedter-Hoc itstedt. The count
is below the average height, and his gray
ish blue eyes dimmed by poTing over
poor manuscripts. give him tie appear
ance Of a student.
In stating his case TO a reporter, he said:
II nave atHaA> been uuIuItGEate.' said
he. But one has been mole unfortunate lie,
and that is my brother, Alexander, WaOse
misfouunes proved more than lie could
bear"
Then he Teciied the history Of the down
fall OF h ing Lud wig. the exile of his beaut,-
ful daughter, aud the convulsIon Of the
kingdom, which resulted in the oonfiscat:on
of the property he seeks TO recover.
Ills mother created Countess de Hoch-
stedtcyl- Hoch.tedt 10y her royal father.
vas born in e33, near Riga, Russia, in a
mothers name does not appear, nor has
it any hearing on the case. for Ludwig
openly accepted the child his da ughter
and in after yea rs made heTa great favorite
at court.
She spent her childhood in a royal sum
mer castle a NynphenbuTg. and was edu-
Gated ia the home OF Duke Max, of Ba yaIia,
! where she grew up with the dukes five
| ola lighters She became beautiful young
wousn ana wa Sadnittedatcourt. Among
the incidents OF those Troublesome times for
royalty in Bavar ria were the expulsion of
Lola Montez and the Sudden curtailment of
the Kings privileges.
Countess TCthst etiten- HoChstedt had Ia re-
iy passed her twentieth birthday when,
her fathers protection being withdraw n,
she fell under the displeasuIe of those in
power. her half-brot her having taken the
reinsof government END She as sUmmaTily
banished. She might have lost her head, but
she lost only her property.
After the decree OF Punishment the count
ess was never readnitted'to the country,
and il was from distance, with difficulty
and danger, that she obt aimed the following
affidavit, legali2ed and recorded at InCoI-
stadt on March 81, 1857, and now in the
possession OF her son:
I'VE, the undersigned, Babette Won Tein
widow, al lngostadt, and Dir. Frederick
BUchner, counsellor at law, OF the same
city, certify at the pressing request of the
Cow css Marie de Hochstedt, that the
latter has resided during the summer OF
1883 with the undersigned, Babette Won
1ein: during that time a police descent
was made on the Countess de Hochstedt
and that time her papers Were demanded
OF fiber, ana he Countess Marie de Hochstedt
was made 10 leave Bavaria; afterward an
other police descent was made, her effects
being looked up aud all her effects taken
away by the police officers in command.
"BABETTE VON TEN.
''FREDERiCK BUCHNER. LAWYER
The countess fled to Switzerland, and
after vainly trying to secure permission to
re ur1 to Bavaria, proceeded to Paris, where
the count was born ia S56. She secured
the protection of the French government
and was admitted TO citizenship.
According to the counts story, il was
while in Washington, where he W as coca
sonally employed as a translator by rep
reSeutativeS Of foreign governments, that
he wasinfouned byhis foster mother, Nine
DeSTeLi W no was responsible for him in
his school days, after the countess and Ber-
nier ceased to visit him, that his mother
had committed suicide by jumping into
the Seine. Then h g lea rned of the estate to
which he is entitled.
There is a law in Bavaria under which
an illeeitimate child may Inherit, and act
ing on that, Count de HochStedten- Hoche-
tedt made his first formal claim.
The Marquis de Chafnbrun and the Count
d'Arco, minister from Germany, and Count
Alexander Gregor, minister from Russia.
acting under instructions from their horne
offices, Intercepted him concerning his
history.
Count de Hochstedten Hochstcdt firmly
believes he Will come into possession of his
mothers estate, worth S3,315,o0o.
In Washington he learned from repre-
sentatiyes of the German government that
his existence and history We're already
known TO the Bavarian officials.
Marriage Licenses.