The Washington herald., 1909-03-19
Physician Declares He Is Not
Won Veltheim.
POLICE ADMIT THE ERROR
Held on Charges Preferred by At
torney Who Asks investigation of
Doctors Plans for Curing Young
Man of AffIictiOn without Aid of
MedicIne-Practieed in Berlin.

rested on cnargcS OF prdctlclng medicine
without a license and nonpayment Of
board bills. Is not Franz Won Velthelm.
the famous bigamist and blackmaiier. was
the admission Of the police last night
/ Or. Norden denies he Is Won Veltheim.
or is related TO the man. and attributes
the mistake OF the police 20 the fact
that he once assisted the mother OF a
woman who had married Won Veltheim,
and IN this way became identified with
the name OF the alleged bigamist
/ DR.. Norden Is held on charges preferred
/ by Charles c. Redwood. attorney, who
asks an investigation Of the doctors plans
10 cure a young man Of an affiiction.
without the aid OF medicine, FOR $1,000
DR.. Norden explained the facts 10 a
reporter for The Washington Herald last
night, as follows:
Made Discoveries.
I have made scientific investigations
Tor twenty-elght years and am confident
I have made discoveries which VIII revo-
Iutionlze the medical world. I came 10
/ Washington with the intention or making
my discoveries known 10 the world. be-
/
was suffering from serious afiiction- I
believed I could cure the young man In
forty months without the aid Of medicine.
and I approached the mother on TIE sub
! ject. told her that n did not make her
son a normal man at the expiration q
that time ] would accept no fee for my
/ services. II I succeeded she was 10 pay
ne Sl.OO0 when her son was well. provided
she was In a position 70 pay. Did 7 break
a law or commit a crime2"
Answering the question himself, Dr.
Norden said he did not and had no inten-
tons Of wrongdoing The physician de-
clared he intended defending himself in
court. but that when he learned the Do
lice believed he was Won Veltheim he de-
cided to enlist the aid OF attorneys
Cannot Understand.
II cannot understand why 7 was mis-
taken for Won Velthe!m," said DR.. Nor
den some years ago a newspaper clip
ping was sent me BY my sister. II con-
tanned an account OF the career Of Won
Yelthei.n, saying he had been married
eleven times and had obtained large sums
OF money from different women by prom
ises OF marriage and other misrep-esenta-
tions- In this way I became acquainted
with the name OF Won veItheim"
Some time after ] was In san Fran.
cisco. where 1 met Mrs. Hulse. mOthel
OF a woman who had been married u
Won Veltheim. The woman was in trou.
ble and assisted her. arranged fol
her trip across the continent 10 New Yorl
! City, and thence across the -atlantiC
Ocean 20 Italy.
Then I heard OF the arrest OF vor
| Neltheim In Paris. and his subsequent
release on some technically, followed
\ by his arrest in London. where he Z,
now serving a sentence Of twenty years
Won Veltheim is behind prison bars. How
can I be he?"
Visits Husband.
Mrs. Norden visited her husband al the
Eighth precinct police station last night
Their greeting through the bars or IN,
cell door was pathetic. The wife is ap
parently about forty-fve years old an,
retains the beauty OF a woman year
her junior. She carried a basket O.
lunch. several soft. warm blankets. a Pill
low. and clean linen 20 her husband VIII,
had complained OF the hard cot in I'll
cell
Dr- Norden told a reporter the stor,
OF his life in brief while eating the luncl
after Mrs NOrden left. He said he wa.
a native OF Stockholm. Sweden. and ha,
practiced medicine In Berlin for man,
years. ne said he began scientific I'm
vestgatons after being graduated from
university and attaining the degrees o
doctor OF medicine and doctor Of pailoso
ply. 7 came 10 the United States an,
Washington 10 interest men and womei
prominent among the workers OF tn
world in my discoveries" he said
II IS said Dr. Norden has become ac
quainted with several influential person,
in this city, including Rev Dr. [. G. B
Pierce. Senator Money, DR.. George N
Kober, Superintendent White. OF tn,
Government Hospital for the Insane
Commissioner Macfarland, and others.
Police Embarrassed.
The police are apparently much embar
rassed b. their mistake in the idenfIt,
Of Dr. Norden. When their attention
was called 20 the practice OF DR.. Norder
in Washington a telegram was sent Z,
Atlantic City for information concern
ing the physician. who came here from
the New Jersey resort. A letter was re
ceived in reply. saying a woman il
California declares Dr. Norden obtaines
/ several thousand dollars from her whicl
has not been repaid
The letter further stated that the vou1
an alleged DR.. Norden agreed 10 n1arr-
her as soon as ne obtained a divorce
II is said the marriage was never per
formed, and that DR.. Norden was mar
ried TO his present wife in Atlantic CITY
Mrs. NOrden told the Washington polio
that the efforts of the woman in Cal
ifornia to get the money she alleged wa
stolen from her was a blackmailin,
scheme.
Dr. Norden declined to talk Of III
charge Of not paying board bills, excep
10 say that the matter would be straight
ened out in court. The police alIege DR.
Norden IS indebted 70 the proprietors O
the boarding houses. owing bills aggre
eating $10o
ar. Norden viii probably be arralgne,
in Police Court this morning
DIR. McKim Gives Lecture.
"The land Of Egypt-Its wonder and II
mystery" was the subject Of an Hlustrat
ed lecture by Rev Randolph H. McKim
pastor OF the Church Of the Epiphany
al Rausehers last night The talk wa