Show SECURED A RICH BRIDE Austrian Count Tells of His Courtship S I EXTORTION AGAIN ALLEGED Claims American Syndioat6 Wants Blood Money Helped the Nobleman to Get a Wife Rich Enough to Support Him Berlin Oct 20Count Von Larrlsch oelmn lab nn Austrian nobleman In I testifying loday agaInst the syndicate of money lenders who arc accused of attempted extortion aid that immediately imme-diately after his wedding at Buffalo with Miss Mary Saterlee of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania in June a New York bank sent him a draft for 550000 forwarded by the syndicate which he refused to pay This he Count continued was the beginning of prosecutions by the moneylender money-lender group which was composed of four merchants and six mortgage agents of whom Ernest Hoscntlel and Ludwig Ziner were directors of a savings sav-ings bank This draft was based on one of the several notes which the Count sIgned In HmO aggregating 250 000 payable on the condition that he married one of three young Countesses Von Faber of Nuremhourg daughter of Baron Von Faber the famous pencil manufaetuicr each repute to have a dower of 20000000 After giving the money lenders time promissory notes the Count went to Wiesbaden to court one of the Faber girls Thoy discouraged his advances and later at his own expense the Count went to America and eventually manled Miss Saterlec On motion of counsel for the defense the case was postponed in older to summon wit nessess from America Count Von Larrlsh Informed the Associated As-sociated Prefcs today that the Countess Is In Vienna that she knew all about the case and that she had known about it before their marriage The Count classes as absurd some of the sLate meats published In the United States that the Countess Intended to sue for a divorce |