WEDDED TO A BOGUS BARON.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 383, 10 July 1889, Page 4

WEDDED TO A BOGUS BARON.

A Baltimore Girl Lured Into Marriage jjy a Si'Ußious Title.

o>r one of the homeward-bound ships which left Liverpool lately was an American girl who married a man for his title, and who went abroad to learn the usual bitter lesson. Her story as she told it to " The World " correspondent within an hour of her departuie for New- York is substantially as follows : Two yeai's ago she was known as Miss Constable, living at Baltimore, well connected and with enough money to enable her to go to New York to study music. She went to a boarding-houoe on East Seventeenth street, near the American School of Opera, and there met Baron F. E. yon Sucrow, who was introduced to her by an Englishman, a fellow-boardei*. M. yon Sucrow was a good-looking, plausible talker, and claimed to be an officer in the German army with an estate and a big income. At the boarding-house in question Miss Constable was believed to have a fortune of her own. The Baron made love, proposed, Avas> accepted and was married with very little inquiry on Miss Constable's part as to the truth about his alleged connections abroad. The wedding took place, so Mrs 'yon Sucrow says, on September 18th last, at St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, and was performed by the Rev, Dr. Hedges. There was also a civil ceremony at the City Hall, Philadelphia, performed by Mayor JTifcler. After a brief tour M. de Sucrow and his wife went back to the Seventeenth-street boarding-house. The Baron soon discovered that he had married a poor girl, and she on her side was brought to realise that if he had a large fortune in Germany he had at any rate very little ready money with him. He told her a long yarn about the anger of his parents at his marriage, in consequence of which he declared his remittances had not come to hand. His wife believed him. He made her borrow enough from her friends to get along with. Finally he started for Europe a few weeks ago, ostensibly to look after his fortune and estate, In a very short time his wife became convinced that he did not mean to come back. She therefore started after him, and on her arrival here put up at the Langham Hotel. She had to pawn her wedding ring and other jewellery to pay her bill during the first weeks. Last Tuesday she had no money left to pay the account duo, and was told that she would have to leave. In dire distress she went to the American Legation and told the Charge d' Affaires her story. The woman's appearance and refined manners impressed Mr White, and he wired to Berlin to find out just who Baron yon Sucrow was.., The answer came promptly to the effect that no such man was connected with the German Army, and that there was no such man owning any estate in Germany. So far as can be ascertained his inquiries at the German Embassy here have been equally fruitless. The men in Berlin and London whom the bogus Baron claimed as his intimate friends have declared that they never knew him. At the Langham Hotel "The World" corresponienb was told that a man giving that name used to call there for letters but never stopped there. Finally the'womari became convinced that she had been duped by a fortune- hunter and then deserted. Mr White. exerted himself among a few friends and raised money enough to pay hotel bills, > to get the wedding ring out pawn and to. 1 buy a tioket back to America *