A Millionaire in Prison.
At Albany State Prison, on November 3, a telegram Avas received, signed Ulrich, Vanseller, and Ulrich, and addressed to "Baron Robert Herman, Albany Penitentiary": — "Received cablegram informing us that you have fallen heir to the estates of Baron Bernstein, valued at 2,000,000dols[) Particulars when your sentence expires.' The prisoner for whom the despach was intended was busy at the time pegging shoes He is a German. For uttering worthless cheques he was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. The Baron Bernstein, to whose title and estates ho has succeeded, was his uncle ; and the prisoner has a wife and children at Frankfort-on-the Main, where he was born. Some years ago he fell heir to $65,000. He went to Germany and secured his legacy, and returning to America lost it all in a few months at faro He speakß seven languages with fluency.
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 38, 23 February 1884, Page 3
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147A Millionaire in Prison. Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 38, 23 February 1884, Page 3
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