"BARON VON KRUPP"

Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 15

"BARON VON KRUPP"

FORD AND EDISON TRICKED. < Baron C. Frederick E. Krupp ” was deported on Uio While Star l iuer Majestic from New York after lie had completed a sentence of nine months in the Wilmington, Deld., goal on a charge of cashing bad cheques in iho sura of £6O. The “Baron’s” real name is George A. Gabor, but to certain industrial heads and social leaders ho was “Baron von Krupp,” son of the German munition manufacturer, for months. Ho arrived in New York two years ago bearing impressive letters of introduction. He was dined everywhere, and Henry Ford made him a present of a special automobile. Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone entertained him. His bad cheques caught up with him at Alborquequc, Now Mexico, after a dispatch from Germany said he was no scion of the Krupps. Thsi dispatch came after he staled in Los Angeles that the Krupp works would bo turned into a peace-time occupation. After his arrest in New Mexico he attempted suioido by eating the heads of hundreds of matches. He pater waived _ extradition and pleaded guilty in Wilmington. Before he sailed he showed immigration officials a document he had written, entitled ‘How I Fooled Ford. Edison, Firestone, Four Governors, and New York’s Four Hundred.’ Before it was read it was caught by a breeze and landed in the North River. There was no dejection evident in the deportee's manner. Ho was well dressed and cheerful. His destination is the Continental Hotel in Paris. _ He would not discuss his future occupations.