Show BOGUS COUNT FINDS MANY EASY VICTIMS Cuts Wide Swath in Society and Pays Bills With Worthless Worthless Worth Worth- less Checks Baltimore Sept 29 Count Count von who posed In Now Tori St. St Louts Louis Chicago Pittsburg Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia anti and Washington as a nobleman nobleman noble noble- man of Saxony and the itCh heir of the margrave of Wittgenstein In that country anti and who cut a wide swath In social circles in New York was ar arrested arrested ar- ar rested today on the charge of passing and attempting to pass bogus checks The count admitted that he ho was plain George Kramer of Leipsic Germany Ger runny many and that he lie worked forged checks in nfl all the cities above men men- When arrested several checks were found payable at Baltimore banks to his order on his person Letters found on Kramer indicated that he had cut quite a s swath in 10 New NewYork NewYork York society one of these communications tie tie-IS being from an art photograph society begging the count to sit for fora a picture and another from on an automobile automobile auto auto- mobile concern to take tako n a ride In one of their machines and anI p him hima a good time When Count von Bergheim was In Now New York he stopped nt at the Hoffman Hoffman Hoff Hoff- man house where ho ho hind had an expensive sive suite hf hi rooms Later ho visited Philadelphia and was registered at the In Chicago he ad admits ad- ad mits mita ho he operated under the name of Dr F. F W. W and says saya he ob obtained ob- ob tamed 40 from the he Rev Rector Hector P. P Christians Christian's residence of that city by means of a forged check Upon the bank of Pittsburgh I lie lie- also admits that he swindled the First National bank Of PIttsburg out of bf 20 b by means of a forged check and that he lie passed several pieces of bogus paper upon the Federal bank of Pittsburg |