The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-23
FAMOUS MEN HIS VICTIMS.
The Very Grand Stories This Foreign
Swindler Used to Defraud.
New York HeraIdl


DIR. ESon L. Borges. the memory of
whom under chat name or that Of DR..
Emil Blum is as Dead sea apples in the
mouths of several prominent New
Workers, and who is unesteemed in nu-
merOuS other cities. was arrested one
day last week as he alighted from
train IN the Grand Central station, and
now awaits eXtradiJiOn to England.
where he IS wanted on a charge of
grand larceny
Dr. Emil Blum. or DR.. Egon Emanuel
BorgeS, or DR.. Franz Won Berger. or
Baron EgOn Won Neiderndorf, or pos
Slbly, the Marquis de SannicOla, is q
man whose peculiar talents have won
MIN an unenViable recognition in Eu-
rope as well as in New York. Chicago.
cleveland and Cincinnati. Often he
mas been much sought by the police
OF the various municipalities. but he
mas generally succeeded in eVading
direct issue, and his present arrest
IS almost his first instance of the doc
tor, or perhaps his grace. lying in a
piebelan Jail 1t is his first arrest in
this city.
For more than a decade DR.. Borges,
or, as he is better known here, DR..
Blum, has been somewhat Of d thorn in
rhe side of the police of several Amer
lean cities. Only last April pUbHca-
ton of the fact that the doctor had re-
turned to New York caused surprise to
many New Workers, notably =. z. Lam
bert of the West Shore railroad, George
h Daniels Of the New York Central,
Senator Chauncey M Depew. Carl
Schurz and Harper Brothers. He then
said he was on his way to Japan to aC-
cept q position OF trust and responsible
ity under the mikado. He registered
at the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and, from his
arrival, was practically under surveiI-
lance.
When Blum, or Borges, left here in
1894. those mentioned did not think h
would venture here again. At that
time he went to the West Shore Of
nc1alS with q story that he represented
the Austrian government and was TO
arrange for the tranSpOrta ton 60 the
Pacific Of a detachment of soldiers
bound for China. He grandIy hired
trains, which were made ready and
held to await the coming Of the trans
port.
When Mr.. Lambert Of the road
thought the ship was about due he
bought a. large part of New YOrk's
chicken stock and had the poultry cut
into sandwiches to feed his prospective
passengers. The troops never arrived,
and chicken sandwiches were q, drug on
the market during the following fort
night The New York Central and the
Southern Pacific also had trains in
waiting to carry the troops, that never
existed. on duty never to be per
formed.
Soldier, essayist, journalist. aristOcrat
in bearing, and master Of four or five
languages, DR.. Blum created a good
impression wherever he went. At times
ne was embarrassed by the apparently
well authenticated report that he was
none other than EgOn B0rges, an Aus
TRAN officer who left his country after
q peculiar career in card playing.
This did not appreciably affect him
Then. in 1898, he visited Chicago and
the Worlds fair. There he announced
himself the herald Of his royal hiEhness
the ArchduHe Ferdinand Of Austria
Hungary Chicago OUtdid herself in
showing hospitality TO the fOrerunner
Of royalty. and there is no telling what
might not have happened had the
doctor not suddenly deserted Cnfca so,
cOincident with the arrival Of an Of
fetal denial of the talked Of visit.
In August. 1895, .'Dr." Borges was
introduced to Harper & Bros, publish
ers, by Carl Schurz. He was commits
stoned to go abroad to write for their
ma gazine. He drew heavily in ad-
vance, but never went YVOrnlser Bros,
bankers. and DrexeI, Morgan & Co.
Philadelphia, were two references he
gave.
For the last five weeks the prisoner
has had apartments IN a Fashionable
Madison avenue boarding house, where
he was known as DR. Egon Borgess.
a journalist.