A MILLIONAIRE IN PRISON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1601, 5 February 1884, Page 3

A MILLIONAIRE IN PRISON.

At Albany State Prison, on November 3, a telegram waa received, signed Ulrioh, Vanseller, and Ulrich, and addressed to " Baron Robert Herman, Albany Penitentiary": "Received cablegram informing us that you have fallen heir to tho estates of Baron Bernstein, valued „at ,2,000,000d0L Particulars when your sentence expires." The prisoner for whom tho despatch was intended was busy at tho time pegging shoes, He is short and stout, has light hairj blue eyes, and a pleasant face, and is a German. For uttering worthless cheques in Septembor, 1882, he was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. The Baron Bernstein, to whoso title and estates ho has succeeded, was his uncle, and the prisoner has a wife and children at Frankfort-on-thc-Maine, where ho was born. His career, as revealed by himself, is very romantic, He was graduated from Heidelberg University at the age of 24, as a surgeon, in which profession ho gained reputation. Coming to the Unitod Statc3 in 1861, ho enlisted in the army of the Union, and served professionally with success and honor throughout the war. At tho the rebellion ho was attached <sgtae staff of Bellevuo Hospital, New York, for some years. He says he never drank a glass of liquor in his .life, nor used tobacco, but tho passion for gambling caused his ruin, Somo years ago he fell heir to 65,000d015. Ho went to Germany and secured his legacy, and returning to America lost it all in a few months at faro. Ho speaks seven languages with fluency. He has been a New York Herald correspondent from Uhina, a court interpreter in San Francisco, Mid a successful politician in Chicago, where he served a term as coroner. Owing to the penalties awaiting him on the expiration of his sentence for various forgeries, he. wishes to deny that he is tho person for whom the abovo despatch is intended; but the Penitentiary officials know that his real namo is Bernstein, and that he is the man