The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-18
u. s. AGENTS DELYE
INTO COUNTS PAST
LOudOn Is to Be Arraigncd To-
day on a Charge Of
Bigamy.
DOUBLE LIFE Is CHARGED

While Count Max Lynar Ioudon,
bored and immaculate. read magazines
and politely refused to sec reporters
yesterday in his cell in the Tonbs,
agents OF the Department OF Justice and
detectives OF District Attorney Perkins's
star laborcd industriously TO prove that
he was Max Schicmangk. alias Count
Marcel dc Passy. regarded by the po-
lice OH both sides OF the Atlantic AS one
of the most ingenious criminals who ever
broke Jail.
That embarrassing times are ahead Of
the Count. who is awaiting trial o n a
charge Of bigamy. was strongly init
mated by Williab NJ. Ofiey, division
superintendent OF the New York bureau
OF the Department of Justice. I'VE are
working on the theory that the two men
| are Identical" Mr.. Ofiey said.
Assistant District Attorney Embree
said yesterday that the Count would be
arraigned to-day for pleading before
Judge Grain in General Sessions. The
bigainy case Is founded on his alleged
marriage to Rose O'Brien OF Albion.
y. V. in 1912. although he was married
on September IS. 1898. under the name
~ SchiemanRk to Mrs. Frederick Ar
mold of ~Poughkeepsie. The exploits of
the Count dc Passy closed abruptly
with his disappea in 1911.
The Count de Passy arrived here on
August %. 1911. and two days later
married in the City Hall IA woman who
described herself as Nine. Lila Allen
dorf. She was a passenger OF the sarne
transatlantic liner that brought in the
Count. The happy bridegroom. il is said
| took his new wife to Governors Island.
, where by posing as a General in the
German army he was feted by United
states army officers and enjoyed a short
trip on a Government yacht.
Two days later cable messages from
Berlin called the attention of the German
Consul, here to the possible identity Of
De Passv and S~chiemangk, for whom
a reward OF $500 had been offered. The
Count WAS gone.
Max ~Sch!emangk. for whose appre-
hension the German Government was
willing to pay so high a price. had
escaped from a Bsvarian Jail Two weeks
before the arrival of De Passy in this
country.
Tho military bearing OF S~chiemangk
served him In good stead many times.
for while oil German soil he assumed at
different times the title of General in
both the French and American armies.
Since 1911 SchismaTgk's career has
been veiled in mystery, but that OF Max
Lynar I.oudon has emerged gradually
from obsCuring mists. Count Loudon
last month successfully demonstrated
10 a number of army officers In Wash
ington a number of his own inventions.
including AN armored automobile. an
improved soldiers kit. "A long burning
lantern requiring no attention and a
unique pOntoon bridge. The devices
aroused enthusiasm in Washington. but
Federal agents who were investigating
the Count recalled that Max SchiemanIk
too had been of An inventive turn Of
mind.
Agents of the Department Of Justic.
denied Yesterday that l.oudon had any
connection with Eugene Tomory. be-
leved to ne an Austrian army officer.
whose activities IN this country are
being investigated 10y the Federal au-
,horiiics. The Department Of Justice
had received a vague hin that Tomory
lett this country on the Nieuw Amster-
dam on July - with plans of tho forti-
fcations Of New York harbor intended
for the German Government.
Alexander Nuber. the Austrian Con-
sul-ticnerai. said that Tomory had been
employed for three months In the con-
sulate as a clerk, but rldiculed the
idea that the young man had been en-
gagged to carry messages from Count
Won Bernstorf or nr. Dumba to their
Governments. Count I.oudon also, from
his cell in the Tombs. sent out word that
he had never heard OF Tomory.