WARRANT FOR ARREST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 25 June 1938, Page 5

WARRANT FOR ARREST

COUNT REVENTLOW DISPUTE OVER CHILD LONDON, June 22. The Evening News understands that as a result of an application at Bow Street, a warrant for the arrest of Count Haugwitz-Reventlow has been issued.

Application was also .made on behalf of the Countess for her son to be made a'ward of the chancery. The count is believed to be coming to London by air.

A cablegram dispatched from London on Wednesday -stated that Scotland Yard had posted guards at the Regent’s Park mansion of the Count and Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow as a result of threats to kidnap their two-year-old son and heir. The countess was formerly Miss Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress.

Speaking in Paris on Thursday, the count denied reports from New York that he had threatened to kidnap or use force to secure the custody of the child. He said he was going to England. “I am the person whom the police want to interview if I land in England,” Count Haugwitz-Reventlow said to the Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail in disclosing a difference of opinion between himself and his wife regarding the education of their two-year-old son Lance.