The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-27
BARONESS WAS A
 FAVORITE HERE
WOMAN IN THE TOLLS OF LON DON POLICE HAD BEEN OWN
 ER OF POTASH sULPHER.
Came Here When the City Was Center of Famous Characters and Was Figure About the Hotels.

Iue mystery OI the lutHllY Ol Baroness May de Palandt, according to the Pinkerton Detective Agency, has been cleared up. The woman was here in the heydey of the resort, more than 12 years ago, and besides being a picturesque figure in the so- cial affairs of the hotels, became in- | fatuated with the Potash Sulpher Springs property east of this city, and her companion of that visit bought the property and gave it to her Later she sold the property and never re. turned to the city. Her brother and herself came here that time from
 Menominee, Michigan.
 A special from New York says:
 The sudden illness of the baroness, connected by marriage 10 the Astor family, interrupted her trial in Lon' don on a suit brought by Dr. Ernest | Villiers Appleby, formerly lecturer at the University of Minnesota, to recov- CT $200O0. This occurred when she
 looked upon a photograph of herself
 taken in San Francisco in 1889 when
 she was 20 years old. It was labeled with her police record after an arrest
 on a charge of grand larceny. According to the Pinkertons in this
 city, the baroness is the same Paulina
 Townsend who. after escaping from
 San Francisco with Fanny Lyle, gath
 cred in much money in the Orient. re- Turned to her former haunts in this country was accused of swindling a Gautemalan planter and fled to Ell
 rope.
 Soon the name of Baroness De Pal
 andt the wife of one of the oldest and nobIest of Dutch families, gained
 great repute through her associations
 with Mrs. Dan Hanna. The baroness succeeded in kidnapping" the three
 Hanna children, so that the father was unable to get possession of them.
 Some declared that there was no such family in the aristocracy of Hol- land but the contrary was proven and the baroness connection with it was made plain, when in 1902. she inherit ed a large estate from her sister-in- law, Baroness Greetings Van Zoellen
 of The Hague, for several years lady in-waiting to the dowager queen of Holland Whatever the romance be-
 tween her and the baron it has al ways been shrouded in mystery. She married him in 1892 and the divorce occurred ten years later
 Tn 1903 she was the soumate of John D. Fitzpatrick who immediately after a quarrel and her hasty depart ure for Europe, committed suicide. There was a romance of the round the-world type. They met in Tokio the year before when, declaring she was divorced from the baron, she was touring the Orient with Frenchman, Fitzpatrick became violently infatuat- ed and the two were seen together in many places. In 1903 they were in this city. she at the Waldorf and he at the Martinique. All the fashion able resorts knew them. Then came a sudden break She left Europe, ac- companed by the little Frenchman, who was her companion in the Orient, and Kllpatricks death quickly follow ed
 "Out in Menominee, Mich, there has been great concern over the baroness identity. but it now is ended She has brother there, Gene Dugas, she herself claiming to come from q wealthy Chicago family named Dugas.
 During that same year she lost a valuable black pearl at the Shake speare ball in London and when seek ing to recover insurance on it the name of a man well known in French society and among the English aris- tocracy was withheld The 'cwel pur chased by him at Molta Carlo from Baptiste Regnier was insured in his name and she was seeking to recover on 1t.
 Now the case in London. where pr. Appleby is suing her for $20.00O and she making counter-claim for s20.000, declaring that agreement up on which he is suing is founded on an immoral consideration, brings the baroness once more into public view. Her accuser says he can beat the bank at Monte Carlo.
 Her career, according to detec- lives. has been one of the most brilli- | antly deceptive in the world. From a girl of the street she has risen to a position in the highest families of Europe, linked by marriage with one Of the oldest families in this coun- try"