The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-19
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD, MONDAY, NovEMBER 1y. 1928
BROKE NOBLEMAN
 |S MARRIAGE LURE
Love Brokers Use Him As Bait To Capture Wealthy
 Young Women

PARIS, Nov. 1s.--Central Europe's marriage mart is doing a thriving business.
 All the brokers need is a scion of an erstwhile noble house, preferably from Germany, and an heiress who would like a title, albeit tarnished. There are millions in the game, mil- lions of Hungarian crowns, Ruman- ian leis, quantillions of German marks and countless millions of rou- bles. Perhaps they don't amount to much on the theory of present ex- change, but they provide basis of negotiations fruitful in pounds and dollars, if well directed.
 Revelations of the methods en1- ployed come from Vienna, where the Prince von Hohenlohe-Oehringen Chcvalier Won Gabelstein. relative of the head of the princely house of Hohenlohe, which regards the Ho henzollerns s upstarts, appeared in the prisoners bench of the Schoeff engericht, or municipal court. He was charged with forgery, obtain ing money under false pretense and deceiving prospective fiances.s Judges Almost Apologize.
 The prince, dressed according to fashions very latest decree, calmly surveyed through his monocle the three Viennese judges in threadbare morning suits who consistently ad- dressed him as your eXcellency," al- most apologizing for being forced to question him.
 The story told by the chief wit neses laid bare the Donjuanesque his tory of this German prince, forced to become an Uhlan officer because he daughter of noble Spanish house, squandering her fortune of about a million real gold pesos. having the marriage annulled when the fortune had vanished in the cabarets of Ser lin, Munich and Vienna, and then be- ing launched on the intricate and dangerous career of professional bridegroom by band of Austrian marriage brokers.
 Between 1915 and 1919 he was en- gagged seven times. Each time the family of the bride-to be paid his bills. In dune 1918, he was affianced to the daughter of German banker those days the mark was worth four to the dollar-but he quit after hay ing spent 100000, or about s1,750,- 900. Thereupon he chose Vienna as his special field of operations and became engaged to young girl of excellent family.
 Question His Intentions.
 "Excellency." queried the presiding judge, did you really intend mar riage;"
 ironic smile. T may say I did in that case, but really, how could I present her to my cousin, the Princess Won Coburg?"
 That little adventure cost the girls family 5,000,000 Austrian crowns, or. in those days, about half million dollars
 Afterwards, the brokers, who in- cluded an x-policeman named Ko- zisek; an ex-officer, Won Kallina. and a jewish banker named Abrahams. shipped the prince to Bucharest and mad him engaged to a daughter Of one of the Rumanian Rothschild family. The promised dowry was 50,- 000,000 leis. or $2,000,O00. of which the prince was to get one quarter.
 The brokers didn't want to ad- vance the money needed for the trip to Bucharest and the entertaining necessary for the successful prose- cution of the suit, whereupon Herr Abrahams concocted a series of false drafts in the princes name and had them cashed by various banks In Vienna.
 But the. trio counted without their principal actor. Hohenlohe took the money advanced, spent it all in the nabarets of the Balkan xcity and dashed over to Budapest, where he had been told there was a chance to marry Hungarian girl with dowry of 52,000,000 million Hungarian crowns.
 Her-s Abrahams, Kozisek and Won Kallina thought this was going too far, so they denounced the German princeling to the Vienna police. He in turn denounced them. Abrahams brought suit for the restitution of the advances made.
 The Prince Won Hohenlohe smiled scornfully during. the short court session. The judges were impressed They acquitted him. as well as Ko- zisek and Von Kallna. They, more over. decided that the suit of Ab- rahams hadn't leg to stand on.