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Show SINGER'S DAUGHTER TELLS OF LETTERS Mrs. Marie Guy Relates Connection With "Count" Von Millar. By International News Service. SAN DIEGO.' Cal., Aug. 9. Mrs. Marie Hubert Guy, nee Miss Marie Helnk, today to-day told of her connections with "Count" Richard von Millar, self-styled German count and spy, who died at Denver today from injuries sustained when he leaped from a speeding train in an attempt to escape the exposure for the passing of worthless checks at New Orleans and Denver.- She said: I met Millar on the train while en r-oute to my home here from Chicago. He proved interesting both to myself and to others of the party w'ho were traveling with me. He claimed that he knew my mother. Madam Schu-mann-Heink and that he was acquainted ac-quainted with a number of very dear friends of my mother In Germany, whom he described to our satisfaction. Upon my return here I wrote him several letters in a Joking sort of way. These letters were in German, but in translating them into Knerlish he changed the phrases until they read exactly opposite the meaning which I wished to convey. This developed a more serious situation than I Intended, Intend-ed, in view of the fact that I was to be married to Mr. Guy within a short time. J. Hubert Ouy stated that he was fully awafe of the contents of the letters written writ-ten by Marie when they were written and took the matter as a joke. He said: When we found out that Millar was not what he claimed to be. Marie stopped writing. I hope the newspapers newspa-pers will forget this now unpleasant episode, for Marie and I are going home now to be happy ever after. DENVER. Colo., Aug. 9. Richard von .Millar, reputed German count and spy. wiio jumped from the window of a Union Pacific train near here last Wednesday, died in the county hospital today without having regained consciousness. When he made his leap to escape lie was being brought to Denver from Salt Take City, where he had been arrested on a charce of beating a bill at a fashionable Denver |