Show KN ll11S CREATED A GREAT SENSATION Caught by Fag Out with His Partner SEVERAL SPORTS WEEE VICTIMIZED Career of an Alleged Agent of American Heiresses Dorllng Carried on a Very Flourishing Flourish-ing Business in Berlin and Other German Cities Greshams statement State-ment of Our Relations to Samoa Has Given Great Satisfaction to Our American < Cousins The Entanglements En-tanglements of the Late Emi Pasha I Berlin May Copyrighted 1SOJ by the Associated PressThc charges of fraudulent practices brought against the American trotting horse owner Robert F Kneebes has been the sensation of the sporting world during the past week and they have naturally aroused great interest inter-est among the members of the American colony in this city The chief witness against Mr Kneebes who i one of the best known trotting men in the western portion of the United States was strange to say a American named Heffner who accompanied him here as a partner in the trotting business Kneebes and Heff ner ran the mare Nellie Kneebes Jointly in England up to March 22 when they separated In eWnMah In this city the two horsemen had a dispute dis-pute about money matters which eventually eventu-ally resulted in the explosion which caused the charges of eJpoSlon be made against Kneebes HefEner w not the only person with whom Kneebes quarreled while in Berlin his whie Beln On the day following Ils amicable relations with Heffner Kneebes while drinking at the American bar this i II lg1m i city quarreled with Mr Prince ti a well known owner of trotting horses This dispute nearly ended in a personal encounter en-counter between the two horsemen but they were separated by mutual friends Smith was evidently very much angered at certain remarks made to him by Kneebes and it seems Smith was suspicious suspi-cious of the methods of Kneebes in trotting trot-ting his horses for shortly afterwards ho commenced an inquiry into the recent c reer of Kneebes upon the turf and readily obtained from Heffner who was also very much against Kneebes Information hi regard re-gard t the mare Bethol which eventually led t the prosecution of the latter Dr Schnieder who is acting counsel for Mr Kneebes 1 is naturally making the most of the fact that the chief witness against his client was formerly the latters partner part-ner and that they were good friends until they had a dispute in regard t money matters Counsel for the accused turf man also lays great stress upon Heff nets alleged unreliability arguing that Mr Kneebes is the victim of revenge upon the i part of his personal enemies upn During Kneebes imprisonment he has fn to a certain 11 Hall at Wake field who replied saying that Bethel was now on a farm in Minnesota The court however wants better proof than this of the whereabouts of the mare Mr Kneebes has not asked for the assistance of the United States embassy here which L is regarded in some Quarters the Weakness I of the cae The amount of money which Mr Kneebes is alleged to have obtained by fraud 5 far a the charges actually be fore the court are concerned does not exceed 6000 marks Of this amount 2500 marks were prize money given by the Berlin Trotting club and 3500 marks wore given by the Hamburg Trotting club as prizes It u added however < there are a number of other alleged victims who claim to have been defrauded out of money in various betting transactions but as the amount are small it tS not thought likely Mr Kneebes they will take steps to prosecute Agent of American Heiresses News received hero from Dresden shows the man giving the name of Richard Dor ling who was arrested there 8 cabled May 9 I charged with fraudulent practices devoted himself chiefly to fleecing parties he met at hotels out ot small sum of money Boning who has traveled und ° r various aliases dressed well and in ths latest style pretending in some places t2 be the husband of the daughter ot one of 01 the Vanderbilts At other places Darling orlng claimed to be the son and soninlaw of Mr William C Whitney The prisoner is described as being a good linguist and of polite address He moved In the best society so-ciety intimating he was authorized to rze find titled husbands for American ladies of good families I was the custom of Darling to confide this news to his prospective pros-pective victims in the most delicate pro secret manner saying he had come especially pecially from America with the commission commis-sion to find marriageable men princes or counts who would be willing to marry young American ladies who were desir deSr ous of marrying a title Dorling then in timated he would receive considerable sums In commissions as a recompense for finding these titled husbands for American Ameri-can ladles and made it a point to prom ise a substantial recompense to those who would help him in his search After a few days of talk Dorling would proceed to obtain loans from gullible burgher rep resenting t them that he was in temporary tempo-rary need of money as certain funds which were en route f mc America had been delayed In transmission So soon as these loans were obtained Darling would vanish but only to reappear and recom mence the same tactics in another city ct Darling appears to have operated very successfully at Leipslg Munich ver ruhe at and IP1ur until he was caught In Dresden The arrest of Darling explains the fact that notices have frequently np eJafJ the German papers recently setting forth Goe that one of the daughters fI the Vander but family or else the daughter Ia an other well known and very wealthy Amer loan family was about t marry a mem ber of some aristocratic German family Gresham anti Samoa Secretary Greshams paper upon Samoa has given neat satisfaction It is con eluded the United States government will support the German protectorate Excep Excep tion however is taken to that part of the report which gives the impression that the United States gves the Berlin conference did not favor the arrangement arrived at I is insisted the American delegates Messrs Hanson and Phelps were greatly responsible for this arrangement and Mr Phelps appointment a United States min ister to Germany in 1SS9 Germay 18 was regarded as a recognition of his success in negotiating succes ° the Samoan treaty negtiating The German newspapers which are op posing PrInce Bismarck are trying op tring drag him Into Jo0 a controversy by describ ing the state of affairs at Samoa as being due to the socalled blundering work of his son Count Herbert Bis marck The nature of the German naval rein forcements which are to be sent to Sa moa are not yet officially announced but announCea it 4s generally understood sealed orders were recently sent to the commander of the German warship Buzzard and that these orders in substance were that the Buzzard was to proceed to Samoa Im mediately It has also been sa < > d that three other ships the tlea uuline Marie 1cdne and Arkona are to follow the Buzzard to Samoa Emin Pashas Entanglements Inquiries in connection with the law suit growing out of the claims made for the property of the late Emin Pasha have resulted In the discovery of a cer tificate proving the great German ex plorer married a woman named Emina the widow of Hakhl Pasha ir A r n South Tyrol no C His daughter Paulina by this mar riage thus establishes i claims equal to those advanced by Emin Pashas African daughter Ferida Emin Pashas marriage with Emma it is now presumed was treason which compelled him to refuaa to come to Europe Eu-rope when Henry Livingstone brought him from the Interior ol Africa to the coast The law suit In progress about Emin progess Pashas property may be further complicated compli-cated by the fact it has been ascertained that when the explorer last went to the Congo he was again nccompvutd by agin ncompn lld C native woman whom the Belgians found with a son one year old olsen Emin Pasha was murdered near LuaJaba I is thought this woman may also raise claims to the property Df the explorer |