The evening world., 1911-03-23
Federal Official Absolves Her
From Completely in Scheme
to Rob Kin of Dead.
COUNT GUlLTLESS, Toe.
Kallenberg, Also Arrested in
Mail Fraud Scheme, Makes
a Clean Breast.

Countess Anna Gustav Oxenticrna
and her noble husband, the Count Gus
tav, have been fully exonerated by AS
s!stant United states Attorney Blck OF
completely in the bible" swindle, for
which she. the Count and Bertel Kali
onberg were arralgned to-day before
Judge Chatneld IN the United States
Circuit Court in Brooklyn.
The Countess and her husband were
arrested yesterday at their handsome
home Mt Huntington. l.. l.. and Kallen-
berg was taken at the home OF Samuel
IL. Rowland OF No. a. East Forty-ninth
street, brother-In-law of August Bel
Jockey club.
k%ailenbcrg Confesses.
Kallenberg made n clean breast OF
the whole AFFAIR this afternoon. and
the story he told convinced the prose-
cutOr that neither the Countess nor
her husband were In any way involved.
k%allenberg. who will plead guilty.
claims that he was the victim OF mis-
placed confidence. lie entered into the
scheme, he says. on the advice OF a
friend. He anne TO this country only
a year ago from Sweden where. he says.
his father Is u court attendant In the
royal palace.
The bible" swindle Is being thor
oughiy exposed just AZ present In a
current Broadway melodrama.
Pretended Sale Of Bibles.
In this play extended reference is
mad by a SNUG old rascal to a system
which he has devised for preying upon
the religious sensibilities OF persons in
whose family a bereavement has re-
Gently occurred. by pretending to have
sold Bibles to their dead relatives and
| collecting the fictitious balance due on
the purchases.
ITS q wonderful scheme" he re-
marks suaveiy In one act, "a wonderful
scheme. Religion and death are clsoely
linked. That's the secret"
The postal authorities first got word
of the real life scheme from Mrs. Mar
tin j. Hynes OF Nc. ga Troy avenue,
Brooklyn. A few days after her hus-
band died she received a letter saving
that the lead man had paid 80 on a
Bible which he had arranged to buy
and that SO was still due. A request
for the balance vas made. The letter
was signed &C. w, Schmidt" which Is
alleged TO have been the name used by
Kallenberg.
Mrs. Hynes knew positively that her
husband had not purchased a Bible and
she sent the letter to the postal authori,
ties.
As fresh complaints continued to poul
in from half a dozen or more intended
victims the Post Office people were abb,
to Ak the period OF greatest activity al
Just before the Christmas holidays
time when the average persons sympa
thies are most easily aroused.
Sends Deeoy Letters.
Postal Inspector John n. Parsons be
gan a correspondence with Schmidt
using Mrs. Hynes's name. and dis
covered that the letters were being de
llvered at the home OF Mrs. Anna Oxen
stein at Huntington Terrace. two mile
from the Huntington railroad station.
A registered letter which was sent b
Parsons was receipted for In schmidt
name by Mrs. OXensteln. who was tour
II be the owner of the house In whic
she lived. Inspector Parsons QUESTION:
her yesterday. She insisted that sh
was a countess and protested her limo
cence. She would not go into detail
| concerning her right to Il title.
She soon admitted that Kallenber
was a servant in the home Of S.
= Rowland. She was taken to Brookly
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