Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-24
BARON MAY BE
KNOWN TO men
OF THE Service
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fnorIty. to be the guest of friends VINO
would shield the man from a chance
mcC ting win his accusers.
The prediction is now made taat
Won Noellwarth will fall into the
clutches of the police before many
days have elapsed. IL
Among several interesting obserYa-
tions which have followed the d-sap-
pearance OF the muchly wanted Won
Woellwarth is a story to the effect
that while the alleged member CT con-
tlnental baronetcv was an inmate at
Queens Hospital he extended All inyi-
tation to several officials and phys
icians to attend banquet. which at
a later date was given at one of the
/ prominent hotels of the city, and was
an altogether sumptuous affair.
J The baron was obliged 10 undergo a
slight operation at the institution
there for some days
Officers of the 25th infantry here
who were stationed at Fort George
Wright, Washington. two years ago,
i ere inclined to connect Won Woell-
warth with a certain Captain Gustav
/ Won Meyer, alias Schmidt, who pur-
sued similar operations on the coast
end who made an unsuccessful at
tempt to mulet officers of that regi-
ment.
Captain Won Meyer" presented him
self at Fort George Wright attired in
smart riding togs of quite the correct
a. So.
, handing officer. offered his card
printed-and introduced himself as al
officer of Uhlan regiment Of the
I German army on leave of absence
under Bpecia3 permission from the
emperor The Captain" was offered
! the hospitality of the club. his call
was returned by the commanding Off
Ger and being of very pleasant address
and a glib conversationalist he made
quite an impression.
He stated that his rather was gen.
eral officer and that at that time he
was military governor of the city of
Berlin. He rode frequently to the post
and was unquestionably a fine horse
man; he handled a sabre with skill
and exhibited several scars, the. relies
Of student duels in his college days
at Bonn, he said.
He talked much of having partici-
rated in military rides from Vienna
TO Berlin, from Moscow to Berlin and
claimed that while serving with the
German force in China, at the close
of the Boxer campaign he had made
ride from the Taku forts to Berlin
accompanied by a single soldier ser
want
This latter statement having been
made about the time he fell into dis
favor, 1t was suggested that there
we're no mounted troops with the Ger
man forces in China, but the doughty
captain was not phased for minute
and replied that he was attached for
staff duty. A visit to the target range
however developed the startling dis
closure that he knew nothing about
military rifle and that he could barely
hit the surrounding landscape. On his
return to the club from the range he
announced that he had dropped his
letter of credit amounting to several
thousand dollars either on his ride to
the post or on the range and careful
search of the range was unsuccessful.
He invited party of officers to dine
with him in town that evening, but
when the hour for dining arrived the
assembled guests had no host. The
suspicious of his intended guests were
aroused and upon comparing notes it
developed that many of his statements
Gid not gibe so that when he called
tie following day, profuse with apollo
-giss at his absence, the exhibition of
n tissue copy Of telegram to his
bankers in New York to stop pay
trent on the lest letter of credit, was
received with no more warmth than
lis carefully worded request for
small loan to tide over his affairs I'M
iii his bankers could reply. The Spo
kane papers the following morning
uncovered his tracks and announced
that the German captain had left town
between suns, with trail of unpaid
bills and leans behind him, the Ger
lcan consul being the heaviest loser. |
Ii was learned later that his real cog
noTed was Schmidt, that he was want
ca for similar financial transgressions
in several American cities, and that !
he was also known in China and the !,
far east. Several weeks after his hur- I
ried departure from Spokane he was
playing at the same old game in Port.
land, Oregon, and from there disap I
peared, not to be heard of again until
the recent disclosures in Honolulu.
The description of the riding mas
ter's appearance, his methods of pro-
cedure and his manner of living all |
point to the return of the late guest !
Of tho 9th infantry - /