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Show GERMAN COUNT I IS IN PRISON I Chicago, July 2-1. Charged with H having operated a confidence gamp, H Count Kurt von Knobclsdorff was held H to the grand jury today. i Tho defendant presented a birth VJ certificate and his father's death cer- 1 tlficato to prove he was a member 1 of the German nobility. H The complaining witnesses were M Julius Conrath and Henry Jung, who WM testified they hold promissory notes amounting to $1,000, signed by the count. Tne witnesses said they had ! advanced the count tho money on his representation that he soon was to HJ get his share of the inheritance from H his fathor's estate. They said that H investigation by a detective agency H showed that the count was dislnhor- H Ited when he married an actress sev- H oral years ago. IH |