The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-15
sRINDLER M U. S. UNIFORM.
DeSerter From the Army Here Imposes on
Many PeOplO-in Germany.

Many PeOple.ln Germany.
The career Of col. schiemangk, u, S. A.
otherwise known as Macmillan, Count
do PaSsy, Lieutenant Colonel In the United
States Consulate General aud q few other
things, has just been out on abruptly by
IN unieeling Berlin tribunal which has
sentenced him 10 three years In the peni-
tertiary, 900 marks $3.50 fine, Ave year,
loas Of OWL rights and perpetual police
supervision, A confederate got on with
siX months in prison. The offence Of which
they were convicted was swindling, Incl
dSntaly the Colonel praOtised noar-
hgamy as q means Of livelihood, In their
usual thorough manner the German police
brought out a good deal Of his history.
He waS the son Of q hotel keeper In
Luokau, Germany, and was born In 1850.
He gained admission TO the school for non.
commissioned officers at Wellburg and
began his criminal career there, being
turned out for cheating. Then In 1850 his
relatives shipped him to America. de
eerved here a. waiter. cowboy and news
dealer, finally snlisting In an artillery
regiment, in which hs became a corporal
and from which he deserted in 1895, going
back 10 Germany, While here be acquired
a wife and 9 couple Of children.
Arriving In Germany he arrayed him
seli In the uniform Of q Captain In the
United States army and started TO look Tor
more wivee. He succeeded In swindling
4 number OF women and was finally trapped.
He got three years and three months In the
penitentiary at Hamburg. and when he
wal freed, once again came 10 America
and again enlisted In the army. He de-
serted again after a month or two, and
being In danger Of arrest again returned
TO Europe.
This time he promoted himself to Colonel,
but he had no luck. He vas caught almost
at once 10 Berlin and had TO serve three
years In the Sonnenborg penitentiary
from which he was liberated on September
IS last. With the aid Of an Acquaintance
made In prison he started to cut a wide
swAth. He vent to a good hotel on he
Pstersburgstrasse, and representing him
self a. a Major In the army. attached to
the United States Embassy in Berlin, he
hired a'suite Of roons Then he told the
proprietor that he was disappointed N
remittances, and by showing photographs
OF himself In uniform got loans Of several
hundred marks. He also showed letters
directed 10 himself a. col, Max Won
Sohiemangk, Corps Of Engineers, Fort
Hamilton, North America
At the same time he started writing letters
10 various rich men. His usua plan was
10 say he had met their IONS or daughters
somewhere on social occasions. He all
ways enclosed bis photograph In American
uniform az al evidence OF good faith,
though he signed himself Colonel Count de
Passy,7 Some Of those he addressed made
inquiries and found he was an tmpostor,
Several took the hook, however, and enter
tanned him and lent him money,
schiemAngk's next move was 10 register
With a marriage broker In Berlin named
PodoSas. He said he wanted a wife with
q million marks as dowry. In the books
Of The agency he described himself az Lieu
tenAnt-C Colonel In the United States consular
service, said he had property worth $3.50 o
in the United States, and added that he
could speak EngishL German, Spanish,
Arabic, Turkish and Russian and was an
inventor in the military line. He was in
troduced 10 numerous women and was In a
way 10 marry any or all Of them when n
Of the clients Of the establishment, whom
he had previously swindled and deceived,
recognized him. In spite OF this, however,
he became engaged to . young woman,
from whom he secured a large sum Of money
on pretsnce OF investing 1t Tor her,
He used his coniederate's Don a. head
quarters for his operations, and the latter,
10 q gorgeous livery, posed as his servant.
Dozens Of men and women were swndled
by the pair, and they had bills Of exchange
amounting 10 fifty thousand marks forged
when the police anne down on them Tor
o OF their minor operations. The police
believe that the two were on the point OF
oashinE the bills and skipping to America
but no banker could be got TO admit that
he had had them presented 10 him. The
lawyer for the accused declared that they
had no intention Of cashing them; they
we're only for a bluff. 10 be used in minor
swinding operations, and OF this plea the
pair escaped severer punishment.