Show A SAKE AKE E TJ TELEGRAM nECE fION IS IS' Up FOR SIX I MONTHS t 0 Husband Then Dis Discovers overs rs Wife Is I Not a German Ger Ger- German man Baroness COLOGNE Germany Gennan Aug 21 A A A deception that began more more than thon six months before the start of ot t the e war war and that W was successfully practised d du u until tIl this month has juht been discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered It might never have been unearthed It If It had hail not been for the warIn war war In the winter of 14 1913 a a. local en engineer engineer engineer en- en met and nd fell feU In love lovo with a woman named Maria Marla decd In Inthe In Inthe the hope of ot Interesting the engineer the woman had posed as a 0 widowed baroness bareness the daughter of ot a a. prominent prominent nent German general When the tho engIneer en- en engineer en at last proposed marriage his I fiancee could find no no noway way of rectifying rectify rectify- I ing the tho tol false e Impression I On the plea that the tho general would woul be terribly angry to find tind that hl hIs hl daughter had hod married beneath her rank ronk that couple went to London and ond there were married The engineer on Several everal occasions wrote letters to general but his wife y was able to In Intercept In p each of the messages and to write answers calculated to keep tho the two apart Then carne camo the war and eventually the engineers engineer's participation In it Ho He had never given ghen up hoping that lie he w would uld some day be able to bring bring- about a a meeting and nd a a. reconciliation his titled and nd distinguished father in law When he received the Iron Cross for tor bravery recently he heL decided that the proper time had come and ana once once more more wrote tho the general to tell him of the distinction This le letter the general did ge get gel and this time the tho engineer got a g genuine answer r in which the officer angrily and abd v very t de decidedly disavowed any daughter ny or any son in The deeply disappointed engineer could not find It in his lila heart to forgive his wife but Instead h had d her arrested ona on ona a r forgery charge which has hM Just re resulted resulted re- re suited in her being being- sentenced to prison for Cor 18 months |