Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-24
INNOCENT Of CRIME.
Countess 0xenstierna Did Not
Know She Aided Fraud.
ILLEGAL USE OF THE MAILS
Bertil Kallenberg Of Sweden Held
for Obtaining Money by Cues
tionable Scheme.

NEW YORK, March c4.-Bertil kallen-
berg. son Of a member Of the household
of the King of Sweden, but for the last
two months second man" for Samuel S.
Rowland. president of the Washington
Jockey Club. pleaded guilty yesterday
before Judge Chatfield in the United
States circuit court. Brooklyn. to using
the mails with intent to defraud.
In his plea he exonerated Anna, Count
ess Oxenstierna. who had been indicted
with him, of having any possible knowl-
edge Of the Bible graft he was plying.
The countess was arraigned before Judge
Chatfield earlier in the afternoon, and
was paroled in her own custody. To-
morrow morning, when kallenberg is
called for sentence. the countess will be
formally discharged.
Two weeks before last Christmas Mrs.
Martin ]. Hynes of No. -224 Troy avenue,
Brooklyn. received letter signed Carl
M. Schmidt" telling her that her hus.
band, who had died a few days before,
had been buying Bible on the Install
ment plan. He had paid SO, the letter
said, and if Mrs. Hynes would pay
balance of Sc the book would be delivered
to her as the Christmas present it had
been intended to be.
Sure of His Innocence.
Mrs Hynes being sure that her hus-
band had done no such thing turned
the letter over to the postal authorities.
A registered letter was sent to Schmidt
at Huntington. l.. L., which was taken to
the home Of Count Gustaye Oxenstierna
on Huntington terrace.
Schmidt was not at the house when
the letter was first taken there. but two
days later the countess presented an au-
thoriZation signed with his name. The
next day. after Schmidt's signature had
been witnessed, the letter was given to
the countess. Eric Sundberg, a brother
of the countess, and Mrs. BERTH Kallen-
berg were the witnesses to the sigma
ture.
February typewriter post card was
Long Island. 1t read:
"Mr. S: has gone to Albany. but will
be back by the LIST Of March:
Post ONCE Inspector John N. Parsons
learned that two other Brooklyn wom-
en- recently widowed, had received "Bible
letters" from Schmidt. Schmidt was con-
clusively identified as Kallenberg, and
nesday Parsons and two federal officers
went to Huntington and examined the
countess. At first she would not take
the matter seriously. but after her hus-
band nad explained II to ner she agreed
to appear before Judge Chatfield in the
morning She was not taken into GUS
tody. kallenberg was arrested later at
the Rowland home, As East 10th street.
Story Told in Court.
The countess, q pretty Scandinavian
girl. who had been q masseuse In Stock
holm until she was married to Oxtens-
tierna, told her story frankly in court
yesterday.
"a year ago." she said, this young
man and his wife arrived in New York
almost penniless. My husband met them
at the Swedish Emigrant House at the
Battery, and because Kallenberg seemed
an unusually intelligent boy he brought
him and his wife out to Huntington to
stay until work could be found for them.
We didn't know them, but we wanted to
help them because they were from home
After while Kallenberg got a place
in q stamp house in New York. Last fall
he came back to us and pretty soon he
told us that he expected some letters that
would be addressed to Carl NJ. Schmidt.
We left q note about this for the mail
carrier in our box, but it wasn't until
about two months ago that any letters
came.
Said He Expected Money.
"Kallenberg had got place as a servant
then, and when he left he asked me IL