Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-17
VENGEANCE IN DEATH.
Slain Hotel Clerk Was a Cast OFF
German Count

SAH't tiSh~i SIGi SNoS SGSk VII
German Count.
Did the long arm Of vengeance
reach out the other day to claim its
victim in the person of Count Helm
rich Won Picker at Atlantic City, N.
j.? Was the German fatherland visit
ing it's justice upon a recreant son
who refused to help in the late war
when Won Pickler, better known to
friends and acquaintances as Henry
Buelow, or Henry Ruehler, shy, SEN
sitive German with clubfoot, was
done to death in a lonely meadow near
the fashionable seaside resort?
More than twenty-five years ago,
Won Pickler because of his deformity,
which made him the ugly duckling OF
the warlike Won Buelow family, was
cast out to shift for himself in Amer
lea. The Won Buelows. who gave to
the fatherland Prince Bearnhard Won
Buelow, former imperial chancellor
and ambassador to Italy, and Field
Marshal Won Buelow, commander Of
the second German army I'M the late
war, is said to have had no place for
the club footed one who could not
play the part of soldier.
A Remittance Man.
Shamed and humiliated when he was
cast off, Won Pickler came to this
country and worked as an employee at
various resort hotels along the Allan
tic coast. Until the entrance Of the
United States into the war he was
known as a remittance man, receiving
periodically through the German am
bassador at Washington check from
the Countess yon Buelow at WurtZ-
burg, Bavaria, who was Won Pickler's
aunt.
To his friends he was known as a
quiet, inoffensive man reluctant to
talk of his past life in Germany, and
when he did speak of his relatives 1t
was with bitterness. It was known
that he expected to share 90 in the es-
tate of an uncle, and for that reason
he never became a citizen of the Unit
ed States, believing that II he did be-
come naturalized it would injure his
claim to the estate.
Robbery Blind.
During the wartime he was reg
istered alien enemy, but was permit
ted to go unmolested about his duties,
which were those Of supply clerk in a
resort hotel; apparently he was un-
concerned with the struggle between
his country and his native land. His
German friends are known to have
dropped him because of his indiffer-
ence to the struggle One German in
particular, for whom the police are
now seeking, who bore an unsaVory
reputation for many years for his pro-
German activities, is known to have
quarreled with Won Pickler because
the latter refused to take any part in
the war because he would not identi-
fy himself with the German secret
seSvice in this country. This man,
now suspected Of the crime, threaten
ed at the time to "get even" with Won
Picltler, who had interrupted his acti-
vities among other German subjects.
He is said to have been seen in Allan
tic City within the last month.
Does the solution of the mystery
surrounding Won Pickler's death lie in
these circumstances? The crew of an
interurban car early in the MOI ming
discovered the body in the meadow.
The dead mans pockets had been
rifed, blue and gray cap, presum-
ably dropped by the slayer. was near
by, indications were that the man had
been murdered elsewhere and the
body brought to the spot in motor
car. Notwithstanding the fact that
Won Picl;ler was known to carry con-
siderable sums Of money, detectives
scout the theory that robbery was the
motive behind the crime believing
that the theft of Won Pickler's mon
ey was merely q blind to conceal the
real motive behind the crime.
Did the Fatherland Remember?
For four days after the discovery of
the body the case aroused no particu-
lar attention; it was only Henry
Buehler, hotel clerk, who had been
killed for his money. The trial was
allowed to grow cold. Then little by
little the facts in the strange life Of
Won Pckler come to the surface-a
German university graduate, member
of the nobility of his home land, a
cast-off who had aroused the ire of
the military powers because he de-
MED them when they asked him to
help
Was it then the personal grudge ',t
former friend settling an old score
Was it crime committed simply for
the sake of his money, Or did the faith
land remember the ugly duckling and
his treason and reach out the long
arm of vengeance to cut him down?