Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-09-23
''PRINCE" Barred
AS AN IMPOSTOR
Duped New York Society for Two
Years With His Stories
About Royalty.
NOW HE HAS TAKEN FLIGHT
Son Of Connecticut Washerwoman
Posed az Heir Apparent to Throne
of Franee-Police Say He Has
Three Wives in This Country.


New York.-How the part Of
prince Of royal blood, heir apparent to
the throne of France, was played by
the romantic son of Yankee washer
woman is revealed in police records
following the disappearance of his
royal highness, Prince Louis Henri de
Chateroux de Bussigny de Bourbon.
The man, who for two years duped
exclusive social circles and Fifth ave
nue. establishments into accepting him
as Bourbon prince and former major
general of Russia who had saved the
life of the car once, on the blotter
OF the police, is entered as just plain
Harold Schwarm, twenty-One, 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, whom he called a bosom
friend
Left behind are several trunkfuls
of royal uniforms and gold-plated
four foot sword, present from the
late car.
Also, the police say, left behind are
three wives somewhere in the country.
Among these is said to be Mrs. Everett
WOrthingtOn Of California, formerly
Miss Emily Abets, and later, accord
ing to the police, the first wife Of the
unmasked royal heir.
Mother Still Loyal.
Back in New Britain, Mrs. Emily
Schwarm, sixty-two, mother Of Harold,
the "lmpostor prince" sighed and
said she hoped Harold wasn't in any
serious trouble.
But if he Is" she finished, she's
my son, for all that, and I'll stick by
him as q mother should. I'll go to
New York if it is necessary, though I
dread such a trip. And 1 don't know
where I'd get the money"
From Joseph Terry, the "Terrible
Secretary" to the vanished prince,
details regarding his life were OBJ
tanned.
Terry met the prince one day short
ly after his discharge from the navy,
and admiration of the princes
monkey led to friendship that re-
suited in his becoming secretary.
II returned a few weeks ago from
a trip on a battleship, the Illinois,"
he said, "where l was waiter. They
prince 81 toward the SIS he owed the
landlord for back rent. He was just
short Of change he said, but expect
ed to borrow money from some Of his
wealthy friends"
Terry gave the following vivid pic
ture of the princes daily schedule:
Z q. m.-Princess gets up and goes
to work in Wall street brokers' Of
flee.
10 a. m.-Prince breakfasts In bed,
Terry serving. His crippled arm, re-
ceived saving the car from an as
sassination. and silver plate In his
head. needed to heal wound received
In war, prevent his royal highness
from getting up earlier.
10 a. m. to 5 p. m.-Prince and his
wolf hound take strolls on Riverside
drive. occasionally resting on a shady
bench.
Praises the "Princess."
At five o'clock he would meet the
princess coming home, and Terry
would serve dinner
"The princess is a good girl" Terry
continued. "She believed everything
the prince told her about saving the
ear and his IA wounds, and his be-
ing a major general. If she only
knew"
Prince Louis, or Harold Schwartz
showed his first taste for a knightly
station back in the days when he went
to work in New Britain Comm
screw factory to help his mother,
who took in laundry, make living
His slim pay went for spats and canes
and gloves, making him the town
dandy.
When he came to New York he be-
came Overseer Of the dining room at
the Metropolitan hospital on Black
wells 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 Reginal Van Der Vere
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 afterward prince Of pol
ished manners and dashing appear
ance with pink hued wolf hound
and monkey, with tales of wild ad-
ventures and intimate anecdotes Of
the worlds notables. appeared on
Broadway and in fashionable clubs
Harold's lifelong ambition was full
filled. He had New York society at
his feet as a foreign potentate.