CLAIMS TO BE PRINCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 March 1933, Page 8

CLAIMS TO BE PRINCE

“ATTRACTION FOR WOMEN.”

LONDON, January 21.

A man who claims to be a Russian prince and was said to have been associating with the daughter of a titled and wealthy Englishman was recommended for deportation by Mr. Fry at Bow-street yesterday. He was described as Stig Erikson Stenfelt, alias Dimitri Troubeskoy, 32. naval engineer, of uncertain nationality, of Cambridge-terrace, Paddington, and was charged on remand with having failed, as an alien, to register a change of address. Detective-sergeant Fury said that the accused claimed that he was Prince Dimitri Troubeskoy, and it was difficult to prove that lie was not. He seemed to have a great attraction for women. For some time he had been associating with a woman whose father was a wealthy man of title, and he had been trying to obtain money from her family.

Quite recently he made the acquaintance of a lady’s maid, and took her out to dinner and so forth,” and obtained from her details about her employer.

On the Thursday before his arrest the maid left her service, and accused telephoned to her mistress, insisting upon an appointment. She met him at the Piccadilly Hotel on the day he was arrested. His explanation was that he wanted to urge the mistress to take the girl back, but the girl said that she did not wish to return. Mr. Fry: Do you think he wished to blackmail her?—There is not much doubt about that.

The officer added that accused was in Worcester for one night, and there met a young woman who had corresponded with him. The police had intercepted one letter. In 1931 a Swede named Stenfelt handed accused a passport at Stockholm to obtain a Russian visa.

Accused had offered to employ him as his manager in Leningrad. The passport was not returned, but. was used by accused to enter this country. Ho had given that name to obtain furniture on the hire purchase system and it was desired by the authorities’ that ho should bo deported. _ Accused: if. j s impossible. I am i I'lnce Dimitri Troubeskoy and a loyalist. [ hate the Soviet. 1 kill myselt if you bring me to Russia. Iho magistrate sentenced accused io one mom h’s imprisonment, and recommended him for deportation “I hone :on will be sent out of the country somehow/ ’he said.