The evening world., 1911-05-11
OF TO-,
FAKE N0BLEMAN'S
/. vCT|M,ASU|C|DE
II Am Sick-Sick From the
Great Disappointment"
She Wrote Her Niece.

Mrs. Mary Kunuth Of No. 21s wy'iow
avenut' Hoboken, fopnd the body o. her
aunt. Miss Elizabeth Berlin, hanging
from the ransom over the door leading
tn the bedroom In her home, No. sac
East Eighteenth street, to-day. She had
hxed "A piece of new clothesline about
her neck. tied the other end to the tran
som bar and jumped from a chair. On
the table In the kitchen was a note
written in German which read:
Am tired of being sick, sick from
The great disappointment. Am going
before the great Judge"
Miss Berlin was seventy years old,
and had lived in the ncighborhood for
about forty OF these. She was known to
everybody in the locality. and each one
knows what she meant by the great
disappointment" The niece had re-
ceived a letter from her aunt yester-
day which told her to come over to-
day. She could not get into the flat un-
til the janitor had admitted her with a
pass-key.
Imposed On for Twenty Years.
After the police had been called she
told them the story OF her aunt's idol
atrous regard for a man who had i'm
posed on her for twenty years, taking
her money and promising that when he
died she would inherit a million marks
or more. The man was a fake noble
man who went under the name of Baron
Horst Won Kaltenborn. For this man
the woman had been a slave. To him
had she given bread and board. She
drudged and shaved that he might live
as IN exiled nobleman should. lie had
the best room In the flat. She slept on
a cot In the kitchen.
At his death, which occurred last
January, the woman learned OF the
deceit. Letters from Germany proved
that Won Kaltenborn really was Otto
Guilliame, and that $500 she had given
him to bank for her he had placed in
his own name.
Miss Berlin came to this country
with her father from a town in Hesse
th%irty-nine years ago. lie was a skilled
mechanic. and at his death, twenty
years later. he left her money enough
to have kept her In ease all her life.
She was then about fifty. One day a
young man came 10 her home with GER
tain letters which represented him to
be a nobleman. He told her that he
had been exiled on account OF political
troubles. She tool him In and was his
mental from that time forth.
Worked Hard to Support Him.
Soon her money was gone and then
she began n life OF hardship for IN.
young noblcman's support. She sewed
and worked for her neighbors that tn,
young Baron might not soil his hands,
Nothing that was told her could chang
her opinion of him. He had told her
that he would soon come into a large
fortune and at his death-she believed
he was consumptive- he would leave
her all.
on Jan. . the Uaron was brought
home. He had beer seized with a hemor.
rhage. He died tdat night. Then the
woman wrote the letters to Germany
which led to the discovery. She was
never well after that. She could not
get the $500 which he had put In bank.
The case Is still In the S~urrogate's
Court. She had tie Baron's body Gre
mated. On the uri she had the name
OF Baron Won kalteuborn engraved. The
urn and its contents are still in the
shop OF n Second avenue undertaken.
The body OF the spinster was viewed
by the Coroner late this afternoon. The
niece will arrange for the funeral.