The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-02
BARON With BRASS KNUCKLES
ION ARkOEIy. ARRESTED At
THE PLAZA. GIVES BAIL.

SNsS suV ~ ssOUVU WVVuNhS suV"' s'"'
various Other Things Accused Of
stealing and Pawning Two Platinum
lrucilDies - Broke Once: In cash Now.
A spruce young man who says he is the
Baron Richard Won Ark0vy of Hungary
and friend Of Lord Decies and Count
Szeche nyi was arrested last night in
front of the desk at the Plaza Hotel. He
is charged by Julio =. Jarron. Cuban Vice.
Consul in this city. with the larceny oil
one platinum cricible with a cover and
one platinum cricibe without a cover
At Police Headquarters he was charged
also with carrying concealed weapon.
as he had in an overcoat pocket pair OF
nickel plated brass knuckles provided with
spikes. The baron calls them Apache
knuckles and says that he always had them
about him in Europe, and gun too.
The Baron who is 81 years old. put
himself down as land owner. He was
arrested on q warrant issued by MagIs-.
trate Corrigan in the Jefferson Market
court on Wednesday.
According to Randolph Newman OF
70 Wall street. Jarron's lawyer, Jarron
showed his platinum cr,icibles to Won
ArkSvy on February 10. 1909 and told
the baron he was going to have the plati-
mum made into rings. The baron. so the
story goes admired the cricibes and asked
Jarron to let him take them to Hungarian
jeweller Of his acquaintance for examina-
ton.
In April. 1909. Jarron's lawyer says. the
baron pawned the crucibles at McAlee-
mans pawnshop. at Broadway and
Thirty fifth street. He got SIS on the
crucible without a cover and s25 on the
other one. Then, says the lawyer. he
sold both pawntickets to man outside
the pawnshop who represented himself
as an employee OF Honest John Kelly.
When Detective Walsh of Headquarters
told the baron yesterday that he was
under arrest Won Ark6vy drew back.
and the detective thinking he WAS going
to be punched closed in with both arms.
On the way down to Police Headquarters
the detective allowed his prisoner to stop
at the Night and Day Bank. There the
baron cashed his personal check for $1,000
He told the detective that the money
might come in handy for bail.
At Headquarters he gave the reporters
his version OF the crucible story.
He said that three years ago he had
card party at 26 West Twenty-seventf
street, where he had an apartment. One
OF the guests ne said. was Jarron. and
when the game was ended Jarron left
owing him $3.50. Later, he said. he mel
Jarron at the Waldorf and asked hin,
for the $3.50. a. the baron was broke
Jarron, said the baron let 1t be known
that he also was in need Of cash, but gave
Won Ark6vy $40 and the two crucible'
on account
The baron also told the reporters that
he came over from England on the Lusi'
tania when Lord Decies's party did He
said he tried his hand at cards in the
course Of the voyage and was a 81 i.oot
winner when the ship reached New York
He said he attended the Decies -GoulC
wedding
At this point in his story the prisoner
broke OF to telephone. He explained
that he had expected TO give dinner
party last night at the Plaza, where
he was living. and that he was going tc
call up Mrs. Macarthur, room 40S, at the
Plaza. and ask her to see that the proper
exclamation was made to his guests.
The prisoner also remarked that he
was a member of the Metropolitan and
Racquet clubs Of this city and that AT th'
universities of Budapest Munich ano
Oxford he had acquired the degrees o
bachelor of arts. doctor OF philosophy
doctor Of political economy and doctor
OF laws He had card OF the Wellington
Club OF London.
Richard Won Arkovy was found un
conscious in room al 73 West Eighty
eighth street on August Is. 1908 HI
had inhaled illuminating gas He sale
when he recovered that he was coun
and friend Of Count Sz6chenyi. thel
| in the public eye Yesterday he said tina
he was the same Won Arkovy and tina
| the gas incident was an accident,
The baron got bail and went right bacI
| to the Plaza He hurried TO his suite oil
the third floor and sent down word t.
inquirers that he would give the Dime
party after all II was said at the PLAY,
that he had had his suite there sine
February 8 and that on Washington
Birthday he gave a dinner party 70
Robert Beresford. Lord Deces's brother
Mrs G. W. Macarthur. to whom the barol
had telephoned, sent down word that tn
baron came from a very fine family il
Hungary