The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-01
POLICE RECALL SCHlEMANCK
TIE RAN AN EAST SIDE EN-.
PLOYNENT AGENCY IN 1896.

Alderman smith and License Clerk Are
Sure That Picture Of German jail.
breaker Il That Of Count de Passy''
Consulate sends to Poughk eepsie.
detective at Police Headquarters
yesterday added new chapter to the
record of Max Schiemangk. the German
of military bearing who is believed by
the German Consulate here to be the same
Count Albert Marcel de Passy" who
was married on Tuesday to a Swedish
girl at City Hall. This sleuth rcmem.
bered after he read the story in THE Sun
that about fifteen years ago Max Schie.
mangk opened an employment bureau
on Second avenue between Fourth and
Fifth streets. He was a tall. distinguished
looking man with military mustache
waxed up at the ends and resembled very
much the pictures Of Max Schiemangk
the elusive Jail breaker. which have been
printed in a German newspaper Of this
city
The military employment agent. the
detective said. got much money from his
unemployed counfrymen. but failed to
keep his end Of the bargain. When COM
plants began to come to Police Head
quarters Schiemanek engaged passage
on a steamer and was on his way to Cor
many before the detectives could lay
hands on him.
Several years before this sudden de-
parture the detectives learned he had
married a German girl on the East Side
and when she died n year later he took
second wife. She went with him to
Germany and lived with him there for
some time Several of her relatives in
the empire were we'll to do. the detective
continued. and Max persuaded them to
invest q large part Of their savings in
an enterprise of which he was the author
The promised returns from the invest
ment failed to arrive. though. and Schie-
mangk one day disappeared. His bride
afterward returned to America and the
detective believes that she still is living
not far from New York He has written
to her and hopes soon to receive an
answer. Whether or not he got divorce
from her isn't known.
The police are quite certain that this
WAS the same Max Schiemangk who later
was apprehended by the authorities in
Germany and who received a long jail
sentence. They heard that he was
arrested a second time abroad just a.
he was about to leave for America. That
was in 1905.
The German consulate has not asked
the police to help them in their seai Oh
for Count de Passy because they are not
Max Schiemangk. Nor do they believe
that he could be extradited. They are
doing some detective work on their own
account, however. and il they find the
Count and can prove that he 10 Schiemangk
they will attempt 70 have him deported.
One of the stan at the consulate won't to
PPoughkeepsie Pc 81 t on Wednesday sd, to look for
had seen them. He found some reason
to believe that Max Schiemangk or Count
de Passy may be the Max de Chimang
who made his appearance there sixteen
years ago and assumed a prominent part
in the Affairs OF the German colony.
Two OF the young men at the consulate
office. at IL Broadway. went further into
the record Of Schiemangk yesterday. and
the longer they delved into the memo
randa and newspaper clippings that they
had collected years ago the more certain
did they become that he and De Passy
are the same.
When De Passy was married on Tuesday
oy aim uc keNS lie
occupation as an army engineer and said
that he was member OF the stah OF the
Governor Of Michigan. A telegram sent
to the Governor by German newspaper
ELECTED the reply that De Passy never
had been heard OF there.
A picture Of the Max Schiemangk who
ran the employment agency here some
ten years ago was placed before Alderman
Smith by German reporter on Wednes-
day.
certainly" said the Alderman. That
is the Count who stood before me yester-
day. He was a handsome fellow and
condu himself throughout. like a
claimed didn't suspect him"
Then the photograph was taken to
the clerk in the marriage license bureau
who issued the license to the Count and
Miss Laila Allendorf on Tuesday.
That's the man." was the clerks
comment. His mustache was exactly
like that in the picture"
Dispatches from Germany eay that
there is considerable excitement among
police circles over the second escape Of
Schemangk. or Count de Passy." a.
he then called himself. on August H.
The jaier at Heilbronn is suspected OF
aiding the delivery and it is believed
known to the police simply as Franz
was the man who accomplished tho
escape. The police believe that this same
Franz sawed De Passy from the Jail
from which he took French leave late in
April. and they also have reason to think
that on August II he went to Heilbronn
with saws and KEYS and 1000 marks,
which ne gave to the turnkey with the
request that he be not too inquisitive
A painter s apprentice who was plying
his brush at the top Of high ladder
at the Heilbronn prison on August IL
remembers that as he looked down at the
cell windows between I and o'clock in
the afternoon he saw a hand thrust in
and out OF the bars of the cell in which
De Passy was locked. He heard grating
noise too. but said nothing about it at
the time. The police think that this must
have heen either Franz or De Passy
cutting away the bars of the window
preparatory to the flight which was
accomplished that night.
Mrs Belmont ForeciOses on Hempste cad