Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-07-27
COUNT Won ROSEN
Bobs Up Into Prominence With
His Claims Again,
STYLED MARTlNSBURG COUNT.
The Lawyers Hunting Evidence Say They
Have Proof Of His Noble Lineage
Mora Ahn.a u,n,
More About Him.

The following dispatch satont from
PhiiadelphIa brings into prominence
again Count Reinhold Won Rosen, the
Swedish claimant to noble fame who
has spent great deal of has time of
late in Martinshurg
Two New York lawyers were In
Philadelp hia as legal represen-
tatiyes of IRE man who says he is the
rightful Count Reinhold Won Rosen
and who formerly lived ut Marins-
burg w Va. and who now resides in
New York. They are making searches
relative 60 the wills of Countess Ella
Moore Won Rosen, Bloomfield H.
Moore and Clara Jessup Moore. They
SAID emphatically that they can prove
the Martinsburg man to be son of
Countess Ella Moore Won Rosen and
a grandson of Mrs. Bloomfield II
Moore. aud are preparing the case
for argument in the Federal courts
in order to establish his claims to his
share of the Bloomfield Moore estate.
| An effort will be made to have the
case tried in New York.
r. Nartinsburg man calls himself
Count Rinhold Gustaf Edward Moore
Won Rosen. Count Carl Won Rosen,
whom he says is his father, repudi-
ates him aud acknowledges a man
who resides in Stockholm AS Count
Reinhold Gustaf Edward Moore Won
Kosen. Both men pretend to be the
eldest son OF Count Carl. and despite
repeated denunciation OF the Martins
burg man as an lmpostor by the Won
Rosen family, and by Samuel Dick
son, counsel for the Won Rosens, he
has not relaxed his efforts to prove
the legitimacy Of his claim. Though
pennliess beyond what he is able to
earn by peddling and other kindred
forms OF labor, he has been successful
in enlisting the services of several
lawyers in his behalf
The Martinsbnrg count" is so
coarse and lacking in courtly
polish that ii is difficult to imagine
that he is other than what he appears
10 be In the absence OF the proof
which is so tardy in nanifesting IL
self. Two years ago his Gains were
the talk of two continents. He came
on to Philadelphia accompanied by
his counsel. H. Vernon Aler, of Mar
tinsburg, to present his claim before
the Orphans Court as the grandson
of Mrs. Bloomfield II. Moore and one
OF the devises under her will When
the case came up for hearing on
May 2, 1899, Judge Penrose ruled that
the question of the Martinsburg man s
identity naturalization of the will
of Countess Ella Won Rosen who is
said to have died in Sweden in 1898,
as under the will of Bloomfield.
More she had vested interest in the
estate and q power OF appointment
The Martinsburg man lawyers say
thcy have witness who Will con-
found the entire Won Rosen family if
he gets chance to meet them IN
open court. He resides in Chicago,
but at one time lived in Stockholm
and was inlimatel~ acquainted with
the Won Rosens He distinctly re-
members meeting the Martinsburg
palace. but even at that time, though
Count Carl recognized him as his son
he was treated with scant courtesy
on account of his rough appearance
and cringllng air OF seryity. Another
witness they say, is ready to testify
that he went 10 Sweden TO see Count
Carl relative TO getting him 10 invest
$1,000 in a newspaper for the benefit
of the Martinsburg count, and the
old man became ecxited finally saving
that if the man in America would
sign an absolute release of all claims
to relationship he would willingly
pay him $4,000 This the Martinbsurg
count refused to do, and the feel !
ing between the men was not sweet
ened thereby.
The Martinsburg count says that
ne attributes thewhole of his fathers
animostiy to the fact that has personal
appearance did not please him, one Of
his defects being cast in the left
eye. Then again he was inclined to
be wild Altogether he thinks that
he was born mistake and misfit as
regards the noble Won Rosen family.
He is being we'll taken care of by his