Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-06
SEARCH FOR WINNER OF
FAMED NOBEL Prize
Strange Romance OF War I'm
covered BY Former Ambas-
sador Penheld
SCIENTIST WORKS IN MINE

I'm the history of American diplo-
macy doubtless there has been no
more puzzling and altogether extra
ordinary case than that which involved
the discovery of the winner of the
celebrated Nobel prize for scientific
achievements of the year 1915" said
Frederic CORTLAND Penfield, former
Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, at
the Hotel Traymore recently. 1T was
unfolded in the successful efforts of
the American embassy in Vienna to
find and rescue the winner of the
world-coveted prize bearing with it un-
dying fame as well as cash to the
i fling were the difficulties that it
seemed despite the entire resources of
the embassy. the efforts to discover the
winner must prove unsuccessful after
search through almost the entire do
main of Russia and Siberia.
when the Russian forces in 1915
oyerran Galicia and captured the fort
ress of Prezymsl more than 10000
persons of the purely civilian popula-
ton were made prisoners and march
ed into Russia. Among these was Pro-
fessor DIR. Baronyi, of the University
of Vienna, expert in diseases of the
eye, nose and ear, and who had pub
lished certain theses that attracted
professional notice everywhere and
who at that time was working as a
volunteer in one of the hospitals.
Shortly after the professor was car
ried away by the Russians with other
prisoners there came the notice of the
award in Sweden of the famous Nobel
prize for his most distinguished ser
vices in surgical research, an i'm
portant discovery
THE American embassy had achieved
reputation for successful diplomatic
effort in the location and release of inn
periled and detained prisoners. l was
promptly appealed to as was done in
hundreds of other cases, and such inn
preston did the case make that was
determined at all costs to find the
missing scientist.
ut was indeed most difficult task.
sian government the injustice of de-
tanning a civilian of such notable at
tainments l was met with the reply
from Petrograd after months of wait-
ing that it seemed utterly impossible
to locate DR.. Baronyl, as there were
more than 5000 places in Russia and
Siberia to which prisoners of war had
been sent and that some of these
places were more than three months
travel from the nearest railroad and
further that prisoners of war were
known only by number and there was
Baronyi.
II used all pressure possible and after
almost year had transpired / was
greeted at the embassy by DR.. Baronyi
himself, attired in a spick and span
brapd-new suit of clothes, high hat
and patent leather shoes, who. called
in person to thank me for his rescue.
DR.. Baronyi had been carried away
to most distant point in far-oif ST.
IBERIA, and at the time he was notified
of his great fortune was working as a
common laborer with pick at the bot
tom of bne of the deepest Siberian
mines. The location and rescue were
indeed miraculous.
Fate again turned against him even
in his good fortune, for the very as
sociates who had urged me on to res
cue the doctor became jealous of his
fame, and DR.. Baronyi finally accepted
a place of great distinction in the
University of Upsal, near Stockholm,
a seat OF. great learning, and in fact
the oxford of the NORTH"