Salt Lake Herald | 1897-04-16 | Page 2 | A Previous Experience

A Previous Experience I San Francisco April IGThe pseudo Baron von Turkheims modesty during I his recent sojourn in San Francisco is accounted for by the fact that three I years ago under the name of Karl von Steinmetz he fooled th people of this city as completely as on this late occasion oc-casion he has deluded Jeannine Young I On Nov 16 1894 the arrival at the i I Palace hotel of Karl von Steinmetz 3 captain in the German army and a son I of General von Steinmetz one of the I most distinguished army officers in Germany was duly heralded The alleged cantain claimed to have been in Chicago settling up certain I Worlds fair matters on behalf of the German government and was on his way he said to China on a diplomatic mission for his emperor He anonunced later that the German warship Bismarck had been ordered to this port to convey him to China Tho Gsrman residents forthwith prepared to entertain the officers of that vessel and for a few days the gallant was in high favor I He suddenly parted for southern California and tnen began a rigid inquiry i J I in-quiry into some of his statements His alleged father who he said was still alive and actively engaged in the German Ger-man army was found to have been dead for many years Further invest I gallon showed a discrepancy ebtween the captains statement a to the regiment regi-ment he belonged to and the German i army list Worse than all the German i I consul announced that there was no I such ship as the Bismarck in the German I Ger-man navy j The captain was asked in his place I of retirement to explain these discrepancies dis-crepancies but treated all reflections on I his veracity with contempt These thincs are very amusing tome I to-me he said repeatedly but before long you will hear something that will surprise you Recent events tend to show that his prediction was correct I