The Washington times., 1922-08-07
BOGUS prince
| W|TH4 WIVES
/. BEING SOUGHT
New England Washerwoman':
Son Duped New York for
4 Two Years.
BY Cosmopolitan News Service.

NEW YORK, Aug. 7'-dow the
part of a prince of royel blood,
heir apparent to the throne of
France, was played by the ro-
mantle son of a Yankee washer
woman is revealed today in police
records following the disappear
ance suddenly Of his royal high
ness, Prince Louis Henri de Cha
toroux de Boussigny.
Duped N. Y. Two Years.
The man who for two years
duped exclusive social circles and
Fifth avenue establishments into
accepting him a Bourbon prince
and former major general OF Rus.
sia, who had saved the life Of the
czar once, according to the police,
is just plain Harold Schwarm.
twenty.one.year-old factory hand,
Of New Britain, Conn.
With the prince is gone the
princess and their dog, Prince.
named, so his highness claimed.
by the late Pope Benedict. who
he called a bosom friend.
IeIL Denlnu btNCIal
fuls of royal uniforms and a gold
plated four.foot sword, a present
from the late car.
Also, left behind, the police say,
are three wives, somewhere in the
country. Among these is said to
be Mrs. Everett Worthington, Of
California, formerly Miss Emily
Abetz, and later, according to the
police, the first wife Of the un.
masked royal heir.
Another Takes His Place.
Meanwhile. the vanishing Of the
Bourbon prince is not to leave the
French throne without a claimant.
In the royal suite-a furnished
room-there is today a military.
looking gentleman who says that
Prince Louis is an imposter, and
that he himself is Napoleon de
Remont, graduate OF st. Cyr,
Frances military academy. former
officer in French and Russian
armies, and only living relative
bf Prince Louis, who, he said,
was dead. Therefore, he alone
was their heir apparent to the
throne of France.
Back in New Britain. Mrs. Emily
Bchwarm, sixty-two-year-old mother
Of Harold, the "imposter prince"
sighed and said she hoped Harold
wasn't in any serious trouble.
But IL he is" she finished, "he's
my SON, for all that, and I'll stick
BY him as a mother should. I'll
20 to New York il its necessary,
though / do dread such a trip. And
I don't know where I'll get the
money"
From Joseph Terry, the Terrible
Secretary" to the vanished prince.
details regarding his life were OBJ
tained today.
Terry met the prince one day
shortly after his discharge from the
navy and became his secretary.
81 returned few weeks ago
from a trip on a battleship, the
Illinois," he said. where 1 was a
waiter. They gave me S42. and of
this / gave the prince 81 toward
the SIS he owed the landlord for
back rent. He was just short Of
change. he said. but expected to
borrow money from some Of his
wealthy friends"
Gives Princes Daily Routine.
Terry gave the following vivid
picture Of the princes daily sched-
ule:
Z a. m-Princess gets up and
goes to work in Wall street brokers'
office.
10 a. m.-Prince breakfasts in
bed, Terry serving. His crippled
arm, received saving the car from
an assassin, and silver plate in his
head, needed to heal a wound re.
eeived in war, prevent his royal
hishness from getting up earlier.
10 a. m. to 5 p. m.-Prince and
his wolfhound take strolls on River
blde Drive, occasionally resting on
b shady bench.
At o'clock he would meet the
princess coming home, and Terry
would serve dinner.
THE princess is good girl"
Terry continued. "She believed
saving the CZar and his fourteen
wounds, and his being a major gen.
eral. If she only knew"
Prince Louis, or Harold Schwarm,
showed his first taste for a kindly
station back in the days when he
went to work In New Britain,
Conn, screw factory to help support
his mother, who took In laundry.
His slim pay went for spats and
canes and gloves, making him the
town dandy.
Bossed Hospital Dining Room.
When he came to New York. he
became overseer Of the dining room
at the Metropolitan Hospital on
Blackwelrs island. Here he wore a
monocle, and in talking to the
foreigners from whom he gathered
a knowledge Of several languages,
he made 1t plain that he was a
gentleman. He developed hauteur
as he worked alongside scullery
maids. He called himself Reginald
Van Der We're.
But the scene was not big enough
for real triumphs, and he came to
New York with his wife who had
been employed on the island.
Not long afterwards, a prince Of
polished manners and dashing APP
pearance, with a pink hued wolf
hound and a monkey, with tales of
wild adventures and intimate
anecdotes of the worlds notables,
appeared on Broadway and in fash
ionable clubs. Harold's lifelong
ambition was fulfilled. He had New
York society at his feet as foreign