The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-31
CAESAR And HUCKI LETTERS
voc ARE IMPOSSIBLE OVER
HERE, WROTE THE kRONPRINZ.

To whIch Ven Boeh0egw 1eUllea mat q
was GloraO4s ana PaeAsans to No q
Saan q the PeoUle-wOulanT Dpop ths
Family Name Ter SIS = AaSath.
Further eorreapondsnce between -Aly
Dear Cesar" the Crown Prince Frederick
William % Germany. his friend -Mucl<i.
Count Ferdinand Won Hochberg. aon ol
Count Bolko Won Hochberg OF Rohnstock
and superintendent % the Royal opsrl
in Berlin came out yesterday before
Justice Col in the Criminal Branch 81 th~
Supreme Court. where Won Hochberg u
the chief witness aGainst his former
business associate and patron. Noah =.
Barnes. Who 10 on trial for walking olI
with $4,000 of tho assets Of the Cotton
wood Greek Copper Company. % which
Barnes was president and IN which Won
Hochberg got his friends in Germany To-
invest $3.50. OOO.
The letters between the two friends
related chiefly to the anger ~ the head
81 the house OF Hochb~rg because Hans
Ferdinand married Louise Carow. Berlin
shopgirl. u was reading q newspaper
account Of the young Counts Drawing the
parental wrath that brought him 10
Barnes . attention.
A letter Of tho Crown Prince IN which
he had suggested that the young Count
change his name and which resulted later
IN Won Hochbcrg calling himself Hans
Ferdinand Barnes said:
NV DEAR MucKI: Your father still
loves you very much. Your mother. ] am
sorry to tell you. has completely given
Won up. II the thing comes out a. u
su you are impossible over here and lost
On Decemb~r 70. looo. Won Hochbsrr
wrote 20 the Crown Prince:
MT DEAR CGsAR: The r@csot action oI
my parents IN trying to turn you. my dear
e-t friend. agains' me IL not very nohle
artioc by the heads OF the Hochberg family
Whatever the cOndi,ions have been under
whtrh : married my wife. nobody can aud
will look upon them a. dishonest. and that
nobody may play With my honor With i'm
punity will night until the last drop Of
blond leaves nv veins II I have violated
the traditions Of my family have gone
abroad for that. and nobody can ask more
] WI never change nv name because
married the lady ~ my choics
Of course II n true my father acquired
those old and ancient IDEAS 81 the arts
iocrary - to what - right and wrong. but
then he 10 no, tn he blamed for this. because
he does not know what q glorious and
pleasant thing IL II to be a man Of the people.
the same a. ! am. free and independent.
The true way TO test metal 70 by putting n
In tho IRE in the same way that you put
an army IN the battlefield.
The elder Count Won Bochberg has
offered his son through q lawyer t7S a
month II h. would change his name.
CONCERNING this proposal the son wrote
hts father an follows:
am living m a modern world and have
adopted modern idear. which our children :
children Will love. honor and respect Ny
child could not respect me n ! sold my
htrthrighi or name for greed ~ gold
vas Wiling to do anything for YOU PRO-
vtding Sou personally would have requested
u. but when an attorney sfsp~ In suppose
tho blood Of the HochberE family rias- IN
nv veins and re- enis such an insult and in
teTfeTence by the man Nho - paid 10 Try
- take from me all that You have left ne
my name II b not money that ! want
Il - love. honor and respect
In another letter Won Hochberg told his
father that In ancient times In China =
mans ears were cut on II hs married a
woman who was not endowed with as
many worldly blessings az he was. and
said You cannot nov aak me- TO cut on
my ears becauss I married a woman
endowed by God with His blessings which
are above worldly ones
The trial was continued until late last
night because Justice Col said he wanted
10 finish thu case to-day.