The New York herald., 1922-08-08
PRINCE VANISHES
WITH HIS MANS $50
Bespangled Louis de Bourbon
No Longer Dazzles River
side Drive.
WIFE GOES TO MOTHER
Police Seek Former Black
wells Island Cook i'm Rus
sian Uniform.
WIFE GOES TO MOTHER

Somewhere in this city. his where
abouts unknown to the police who seek
to question him about his adventures
and stripped of the gaudy uniform OF
the Russian General Staff. Prince
Louis Henri de Cateroux de Bussigny
de Bourbon" otherwise known as Har-
old Schwarm. is playing different role
from that of the dashing IL some what
supplemented officer who dazzled River
side drive with his spangles and tinsel.
Further information regarding his ac-
tivities here and at several OF the penal
institutions was disclosed by the au-
thorities.
If Harold. or Louis, or whatever he
may call himself now, mad only stuck
to his vocation OF cook he would have
been able to become anything else he
liked, doctors and attendants at the
Metropolitan Hospital on Blackwels
Island said yesterday. For he cooked
there. and he cooked at Randalls Island
and at several other p.aces after he left
Boston. which he did. according to the
authorities. at the request of the Boston
police. But at Blackwells the terms of
cook and steward were too menial
for Prince Louis" so he termed him
self doctor" and hired a secretary"
the doctors said yesterday. laughing
merrily over his latest adventures.
Eludes Friend on Street.
And His Highness" has not left. the
city. according to one of his friends.
who saw him from a distance yesterday
walking along Fifth avenue. When the
friend tried tn overtake him Louis
darted down a side street
His girl wife has left him and gone
away with an unknown woman, It IS
said. and runor has her at the home
OF her parents, somewhere in The Bronx
The theory that she was the daughter
of a wealthy Brooklyn lawyer was ex-
pioded yesterday at ''the island, I" where
1t was said she had been stenographer
and had not much money.
The rumored rift In the lutte between
the girl and her husband, to whom she
was married In Connecticut under his
fun title" was caused by the publicity
given the escapades of the man in Bos-
ton. Bridgeport New Britain and other
places where, the authorities say. he
has police and matrimonial record
At the island the girl was known as
Lillian Wilkomerson. but when she was
married to the Prince" her name was
given as Lillian Van de vere.' This
was the name used by Harold or Louis
OF Henri when he cooked on the island
After cooking hours there he would
promenade the reservation in a Tuxedo
coat, dirty white shirt, spats. monocle
and cane.
Calls Nobility Impossible.
That Louis could not possibly be anv
relative OF the Bourbon family was
stated yesterday by Napoleon de Remont
an artist, who put In an appearance
sunday. NJ de Remont said he had
appeared In the matter 20 see why the
Prince had not answered a letter
De Remont wrote to him. offering tc
help him out OF his difficulty. To be a
Bourbon Louis would have TO be at least
forty-five years OF age NJ de Remont
said. as the last Bourbon fought in the
Algerian campaign in 1894. According
to De Remont. who claims to be really
French descendent from the nobility,
the Prince is 'all the bunk"
And through Il all Terrible Terry"
the Princes" amanuensis and general
man or all work, sits sorrowfully on the
steps of the royal suite. looking down
toward the Riverside coal yards be-
moaning the luck that his idol should
have busted 80 soon. and mourning the
loss of $50 he advanced.