The evening world., 1913-09-08
BARON" FRIENDS
100000 HOARD
FOUND MYTHICAL
Cost Mrs. Heggie and Her Rel
atives $4,000 to Learn
This, She Says.
BANK DOESN'T EXIST.
DISTRESSED" Nobleman Whom
Pair Aided in Will Fight
Goes to a Cell.
BANK DOESN'T EXIST.

Baron" william J. schepherd. who II
charged with having beggared Mrs.
Florence May Hcggic and her husband.
obtaining about $1,000 from them and
upward OF 5000 from relatives, through
the couple. was to-day held for the
Grand Jury by Magistrate Freschi. In
jefferson Market Court
The specific charge upon which
Schepherd was arrested was the lar
ceny Of SclO. The warrant was sworn
20 by Mrs Hesgle, who declared Schep-
herd had obtained the money by false
pretenses. lie told her and her hus-
band. she said. that he had an estate
In litigation In Washington. Involving
$4,000 He needed money to conduct
the litigation, the woman said. and she
gave him all she could raise. then got
the rest from her relatives. who had
faith In the Washington estate story.
HEIR TO 100000 ESTATE SHE
SAYS HE CLAIMED.
Schepherd Is forty-six years old and
has been q rug salesman In depart
ment store. lilo Is married. About
a year ago the Hegsies met the Schep-
herds through mutual friends and tho
man made himself very agreeable, so
Mrs. Heggie said. lie also became con.
fidential az to his personal affairs. He
told them. she says. that he was "A Ger
man baron. but he was n poor man and
could not afford to carry on the fight
for his estate. United States Senator
Eiihu Root. he said. was his chief coun.
sci.
lie was an heir. the woman says he
told her. to an estate Of more than
35.0OO.00O controlled by his uncle. Gus
fave Schephersi, Of Tubingen. a suburb
Of Stuttgart. Germany. The will had
been contested by u sister OF Schep-
herd In Philadelphia, and the entire
matter had been transferred to the
United states.
Mrs. Heg9le says that the baron"
was . most plausible talker. He used
good language and used It to the best
Of advantage. lie talked her into
into mortEaEing her home In Ithaca, and
then she talked to her relatives, In
ducing them to pu, up $4,000 for the
poor and deserving man. sShe finally
grow suspicious, after she had given
him S?lO on July III.
Mrs HeEEie had her lawyers inves.i-
gate the story OF the Washington es-
tate. and they found 1t was a fiction.
He had told her. according to her story.
that the 35.Oo0.OoO had been deposited in
| the FourM National Bank, They found
that there was no such bank.
"TELEPHoNED TO SENAToR
ROOT" HE SAID.
A warrant was sworn out for his ar
rest. lie was away from his store for n
wcek and was taken into custody upon
his return. Tho baron was indigna mt
at his arrest. and demanded that he be
permitted to telephone to Washington to
his attorney. Senator Root. lie went
into a telephone booth but the detectives
do not know whether he telcphoned or
not.
WIN Schepherd was hrst arraigned
he told his attorney to tell tho reporters
20 meet iLm at 2 o'clock In the Tombs
and that he was going to distribute
Si32, 900. Tho District-Attorney told
Mrs Heggie that he had developed
acute insanity. She smiled grimly and
said she guessed II was cute insanity.
The salesman's attorney tried To have
the bail reduced to $500. but Magis-
trate Freschi declared that the cir
| cumstances warranted the fixing OF the
higher sum since his arrest Schepherd
| has filed a petition In bankruptcy. In
his private memorandum book were
showings that he had won 100000 in
four years from the "bookies."