Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-07
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
 IDENTIFY SUICIDE
 AS BARON POLENz
of Missing German N0bleman Received from
 Los Angeles
WHAT UNDERTAKER SAYS

Another step was. made in the iden- tiilcation or the Gefman who commit ted suicide in Bisbee last week, when Robert Henessy. or the Q. K under takers. declared that picture ol Baron George F.. von POlenz. pub was a good likeness of the dead Ger. man who lies in Evergreen cemetery.
 The letter from the father in law of Baron Polenz. Dr. Daniel Cave. of Los Angeles. did not give a description of the baron. and no photograph was enclosed. and the picture published in the Examiner was the first seen in Bisbee The undertaken was shown the Examiner picture and asked if it resembled anyone he had seen.
 By George. that is a good likeness of the man who killed himself" the undertaken exclaimed.
 NIT. Hennessy declared that the facial contour. expression and figure were that of the man who killed him self here. The picture published in the los Angeles paper showed the
 
 first lieutenant of the German army
 The partial identification of the pie. ture as that of the dead German is regarded as the most important step yet made in the mytery surrounding the young German who hung himself from box car about a week ago.
 Regarding the similar cireumstane. es in the desth of the. young baron and the death of the ex-soldier of tho German army. the los Angeles Examiner has the following to say:
 That the body Of an unidentified young German who committed suicide at Bisbee. Ariz., several days gao, is that of Baron George F. von Polenz a lieutenant in the Kaisers imper. ial army. and that his death brings tO a close a whirlwind career, was the belief expressed last night by Mrs. von Polenz of Los Angeles. the wife whom he deserted six years ago
 Because of the many incidents that surrounded the mysterious suicide, the wife's mother, Mrs. Daniel Cave, of 5l1 South Cahuenga street. has instituted an investigation that may fix the identity of the suicide as the long missing baron.
 The man hanged himself by a rope 10 the brake wheel of a freight car in Bisbee several days ago. Tn his pockets were found several articles. one a diary that described in pure German two transatlantic trips from Hamburg, the point where the trail of the missing baron was lost two years ago. At that time his father in law, Dr. Daniel Cave, a dentist with offices in the Lankershim build ing, was prosecuting an investigation to locate the missing baron.
 For two years came only an oc. casional word about the baron to his deserted wife, Miss Perie Cave. He had been seen in Alaskan mining camps, GOIdfeld gambling halls, New York clubs and continental hotels of Europe.
 The trail Of the Baron von Polenz scion of a proud German family. first neuteHant in the German imperial army. veteran of the Boxer campaign in China in 1900 and a prominent fig ure in European society. ends where the trail of the unidentified suicide starts. The events in the lives of the baron dovetail with the few known events in the life of the sui eide.
 Returning from China, where he served under General Wsldersee, who commanded the imperial German troops, von Polenz squandered two years in Japan, Honolulu and San Francisco before arriving in Los An geles in 1902.
 The tag on the suitcase of the sui eide was labeled TT. Derby" and on the back of a German silver watch was engraved the name TT. Borrow. ski His laundry was marked IL O.. These markings are regarded as efforts to conceal his identity.
 Only the diary indicated that he was Baron won Polenz, for it spoke of events in Germany, of the Boxer uprising. of being a lieutenant in the German army, of his wife, and of a meteoric career about the world.