The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-27
WAS ROBBED OF MILLIONS
Former Wife of Mr.. Percy Proc.
ter Tells Sensational Story.

Ter lellS sensational Story.
Recently there appeared in Chicago
daily newspaper cablegram from
bucharest dealing with a sensational
story related by Mrs. Nadine be Klei.
russ Proctor. former wife of Mr.. Percy
Proctor, until few years ago q resi-
dent OF Oakland, but who now lives IN
CINCINNATI, Ohio, and from whom Mr..
Procter was divorced after a year of
married life. The cablegram was as
follows. and being of local interest to
the readers of The Republican is re-
produced:
Mrs. Nadine de Kleifuss Proctor. nee
Wengeroff. whose former husband. the
soap man. lives in Cincinnati. has lust
passed through Bucharest with her
daughter, Leonie, enroute from Russia
to Switzerland. She caused a stir
among Americans here by telling how
in her brothers house in Kiev seven
bolshevik bandits robbed her of 375,O
rubies belonging to the American Red
Cross, besides nearly ZOO, 900 rubles of
her own.
In signed statement made by Mrs.
Proctor at the American legation in
Bucharest she said the same bandits
got away with 1000. 900 rubles belong
ing to her brother, Vladimir Wengerotf.
factory director and tinancler
Mrs. Proctor left the United States
for Russia in 1916, she told the Ameri-
can minister here. She had worked tor
the American Red Cross in Belgium and
England as well as in Russia. She
managed a sanatorium for Russian
soldiers at Mustomiaky in Finland.
where she owned an estate of 220, 900
acres, according to her story, but when
the bolsheviks took power they turned
her out OF the sanatorium and confis-
Gated the entire estate, she says.
In March, 1918. Mrs. Proctor reached
kieY, carrying about 1000, 900 rubles,
of which 375, 900 belonged to the Ameri-
can Red Cross. She says she continued
Red Cross work at Kiev, hand in hand
with other Americans, some of whom
later went to Jassay.
Later she went to Moscow. She said
three American officers were held in
prison there by the bolsheyiks under a
sentence of death. Through her inter-
vention the officers were released and
allowed to go to the frontier.
In kiev Mrs. Proctor was permitted
to change the Red Cross money into
Romanotf rubles, which she did on the
morning of Jan. 18th this year. She
placed the money in the belt she wore
around her body.
The next day she went to say good
bye to her brother, Vladimir. Seven
men she says, one of whom put a revolt
yer to her head met her and her daugh-
ter as the two women stepped into the
front room of her brothers house. An
other man grabbed the mother by the
throat and pushed her into an adj dining
room, where she found her brother
bound to the chair and gagged. All
the maids lay helpless on the floor with
pettlcoats tied around their heads
Miss Proctor also was pulled into the
room. Some of the men began TO force
rings and bracelets off her hands TIE
mother begged them to stop torturing
1er daughter. but the bandits, after
finishing with the daughter, performed
The same operation On Mrs Proctor, de-
at the same time where the
money had gone which she had drawn
rom the bank.
when | told them | had left the
money with the foreign minister"
Mrs. Proctor told the American minis
er in her statement, They took all my
clothes off and found the money in my
oelt, Having taken it they searched
.or the key to my brothers. safe. They
found it and opened the safe and took
|, 600, 600 rubies belonging to my broth
ar, besides many valuable papers.
Later | came to Bucharest to put my
Ease before the American minister and
beg him. to help me.
Mrs. Nadine Proctor is the divorced
wife of Percy Proctor, aged soap man
lfacturlng millionaire AS claimed
russian baroness she was married to
'roctOr some wears ago, through the
Medium of a firm OF European marriage
as the Young and attractive
widow of Baron de KIeifuss The aged
Millionaire gave the young widow pre-
lupital present of $50, 600 worth of stock
n the Proctor & Gamble corporation,
lpon her plea that chateau in France,
he inherited from her husband was
Ibout to be sold for debt.
On the witness stand she sWore that
re Mister Proctor was 50 old and so
odd that she could not love him as
young wife should. Divorce was grant
d and an effort made by Proctor to Sc
ure the return of his love gift. Finally
was effected out of court
" which it was stated the ex-wlfe re-
eived cash for the stock returned.
later she denied getting the agreed
ash. Recently, it is said, she had been
in revolutionary propaganda
n Russia, 'maderate, F" not bolshe.
Xix.
Cemetery Committee Asks Aid