New-York tribune., 1910-07-30
rQFR VETERAN IN Tolls
Arrested Quietly in Boston After
Daring Exploits as Scout.
IS CHARGED WITH FORGER1
Alleged to Have Used Spurious
Theatrical Contracts to
Obtain Money.

Tho hero of a hundred battles. VINO laceu
English bullets in the Boer War III 49,
Africa and for whose capture ueao
alive the British offered re"aro' ia'
been captured-and in Boston
Although he escaped a score OF tiihes' 'ii''
prisoner. whose name is julius fraiiAen
hers tamely submitted to arrest oi'
Wednesday by Detective Flood, OF 'he &c"
trail Office, who found him at MS holhe' w.
1776 Washington street. Boston. frahhe"-
herg was wanted on a charge OF 1orseiS, :,
ureferred by Jules Ruby, or the Ciii.eo
Booking Offices, in the Long Acre oio
ing who alleged that the young man hou
forged contracts pUrporting TO De lssueu
by his Office.
Rack of Frankenberg's arrest is taie
of heroic deeds hairbreadth escapes anu
wanderings amid the pitfalls OF the the-
atrical world. The prisoner told his stoiy
so we'll at Police Headquarters last hish'
that the impassive detectives were inter
ested despite themselves.
Frankenberg said that in the Boer war
he entered the service of the IransVdai
and was detailed to duty as a scout. DO
daring were his deeds and SO troublesome
was he to the English that the Britlsh so'-
ernment caused posters to be placed all
over South Africa offering reward Tor MS
capture They were worded in this fash-
ion: Capture, At all costs, dead or anVe'
the Little German Scout on Big Nnlte
Horse.
His Career in Germany.
DESPITE the efforts to capture him, Frank
enberg escaped and sailed for Germany.
There, he told the police. Emperor Wllilam
gave him a medal for bravery in the Ger
man service in one of that nation nl'le
wars in Southwest Africa. After being en-
tertained on all sides in the land OF the
Kaiser, Frankenberg came to the uniteo
States where he was seized with the desire
to he g. playwright He found this to be a
harder task than fighting British troops,
and 1t eventually caused his downfall
About a month ago Frankenberg, who
had taken up quarters at the boarding house
OF Mrs Mime Won Wulssin, at No. PA East
10th street, finished a play which he called
"a Dutch Mix-Up' and set about having
it produced. He engaged, he said, seven
persons to play the different parts In the
play. One of these, and the one VINO was
to be the leading woman, was Miss Marga
Won Wulssin. daughter of MS landIady.
Having thus acquired his play and MS
company, Frankenbers changed his name
TO FRANK Sldi lcu ICiiOolS
ais. Money was need to finance the under
taking and Frankenberg is alleged to
have drawn up forged contracts with the
United Booking Offices and shown them to
his leading womans mother as proof of
the fact that his play was success. So
touched was Mrs. Won Wulssn by her
boarder's ability, it is said, that she turned
over 500 to him.
Told Girl His True Story.
Il fell in love with Marga," Franken-
burg said, land 1 felt that l ought to tell
her the truth-that I had no chance to
produce the play. that 1 had no booking
and that the $500 was all that 1 had to
my name She felt sorry for me. poor
girl. and when I finally proposed to her
that we e1ope she consented.
I'VE went to boarding house at No. 1776
Washington street, Boston, and there we
lived for a while quite happily. But
Marga became homesick. and began writ
ing letters home to her mother asking
her to forgive her. Meantime we were
using UP the 5000 I had obtained from
Mrs. Won Wulssin, and the miserable pit
tance of IS month which the German
government allows me as a pension did
not help matters very much.
Early this week Mrs. Won Wu1ssin,
touched by her daughters heartbroken
letters came to Boston. She came to the
boarding house while I was out, and she
persuaded her daughter to come back to
New York with her.
when 7 came back to the boa riding
house and found that Marga had left I
did not care what became of me I felt
sure that Mrs. Won Wulssin would have
me arrested on account of that 5000, so,
without waiting for her to make the first
move. I went to the Boston police and Of
fered TO surrender myself. I told them
the whole story, and they notified New
York"