“BARON VON KRUPP”

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1927, Page 4

“BARON VON KRUPP”

FORD AND EDISON TRICKED. “Baron G. Frederick E. Krupp” was deported on the White Star liner Majestic from New York after he had completed a sentence of nine months in the Wilmington, Del., goal on a charge of cashing bad cheques in the sum of £6O. The “Baron’s” real name is George A. Gabor, but to certaift- industrial heads and social leaders he was “Baron von Krupp,” son of the German munition manufacturer, for months.

He arrived in New York two years ago bearing impressive letters of introduction. He was dined everywhere and Henry Ford made him a present of a special automobile. Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone entertained him. His bad cheques caught up with? him at Alberqueque, New Mexico, after a dispatch from Germany said he was no scion of the Krupps. This dispatch came after he stated in Los Angeles that the Krupp works would be turned into a peacetime occupation.

After his arrest in New Mexico he attempted suicide by eating the heads of hundreds of matches. Ho later waived extradition and pleaded guilty in Wilmington. Before he sailed he showed immigration officials a document lie had written, entitled “How I Fooled Ford, Edison, Firestone, Four Governors and New York’s Four Hundred.” Before it was read it was caught by a breeze and landed in the North River. There was no dejection evident in the deportee’s manner. He was- well dressed and cheerful. His destination is file Continental Hotel in Paris. He would not discuss his future occupations.