The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-23
SEEKS TO ANNUL
Her MAR R IAGE
Tornler Miss Even Admits She
!, Gave Baron" $4,000 Before
/ He Was'Provcd I.x-Convict.
HIS TITLE A MERE FANCY
Honeymoon i'll Florida Disturbed
by Escapadcs and BY Auto
/ mobile She Paid For.

Now York, January 22.--Thc story OF
The blightcd romance OF Miss Louise
! Even, which began with Il dream OF
The title of baroness and n baronial
castle in Germany, and which In the
waning of the honeymoon was grad
ually transformed into the state IRIS
on at Trenton. y. j., was told yesterday
by Mrs. NJ. Louise Won Kocni,z. as she
now Is. before Justice Garrctson in
Long Island City Through her attor.
ncy. Arthur {. Train. she Is suing TO
Narc her recent marriage annulled.
GIFTS total!nG about $4,000 made by
the. plaintiffs testimony.
Mrs. Won kocnitz was ono Of three
Eanghtcrs Of the late General John
and Eliza Even, she inherited abou,
$i,0o000Q and I; is estimated that at
Inc time OF her marriage Mrs. Won
Jfocn!tz had s25D.o00 in her own .!ght
in bonds and negotiable securities.
The three sisters lived at % West
Eighty sixth street and Mrs. Won
Koenitz frs, met the supposed baron
al gathering OF tho Travel Club at
the Plh1a Hotel IN the spring Of 1903
After a somewhat stormy courtship
In which her sisters tried TO break
on the match. The couple were married
on SoNcmbcr IS. 1909, in the rcctory
OF ST. Marks Episcopal Church. Jersey
city. b- the Roy. Or. Frederick MORT !
inrr, who, called in two of his congre-
cation as witnesses and X MAS al thi3
point that Mrs Won kocnitzs troubles
ard testimony began us told on the
Witness stand YESTERDAY
Mrs Won koenitz was called TO the
witness stand. and her testimony was
confined to tho allegations set forth
81 her complaint.
by WAY OF proving The marriage,
dencc. and then the witness proceeded
70 tell OF her meeting with the bogus
baron She WAS taken With his dash
and tales Of mobility and wealth. An
siiurirs story OF tho ''Schloss I<ocnitz''
in HIS native city Of Thpringic. Ger
many, which had descended To him
from q ropu;ed uncle, Frcihcrr Alex
amber, 80 ron Won kocnitz, and n coi.
Regent OF bavaria, WAS part OF tho
loYcmaking. lie was about twenty
seven Years old, while she was more
than iifil- lie told stories about ;,reat
aiming properties IN Mexico ana Ills
valuable interests elsewhere, 50 that,
despite the opposition Of her sisters
md The warnings OF friends. She con
EcntcU TO become his vile.
"a Following the marriage. they plan
ned European trip, but instead they
went 70 st. Augustine. Fla. where.
according - stories told which didn't
get into the evidence yesterday, Won
ltocniiI proceeded 10 cu;..n "a sli
Emong the young women Of that re.
sort. quite forgetting his bride, who
EbDpIicu tUc money. 1901 ore. the mar
Rage she gave him $4,000. and fol !.
lowing II she obtained between siJ.0o0
and so GOO, which aided the bogus
baron materially In his cscapades at
FL Augustine. Hc bought Two antomo-
hiits orc for his personal use and
ono for his bride. ana frequently,
rncn ont driving. passed her without
sign Of recognition.
Later, so Mrs. Won kocni,z TESTIFIED,
ttic discovered that instead of belong !
ine ~ a noble family. Won Eocnitz was
simply an adyrnturcr. with n prison
record. She lca.ncd that he had served
year in the Essex county Jail. New
dorsey. for hlarkmail She testitiad
Ithathc had served 2 term OF two Years
| Tor grand larceny in the state prison
at Trenton. beginning in 1908, and that,
instead Of his portrait hanging on tho
walls OF his ancestral caste In Ger
many, his photograph Was in tho
Fogucg' Gallery OF New Jersey
While still In the south following
these and other discoveries n!.a left
linn when sic felt that she could safely
do SO. This was OH April 0 or last
Hcar.hand on her rcturnsto New York
Ehc learned the details Of the innposi-
Ion practiced on her ana the suit for
nnnnlmcnt or the marriage followed.
Irving c. Blcun1. clerk OF the Trent on.
\. T., prison. identified . photograph
of Won Noeni'z as That OF prisoner
larceny. MI. Train also introduced in
evidence an alleged agreement. dated
New York, May IL. 1909. In which Won
Eocritz had entered into a bargain
with DR.. Oliver cambridge. whereby DR..