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The Minneapolis Morning Tribune, February 23, 1910, p. 5


Count and Countess Gone


Some Little Accounts Are Left Unpaid by Alleged Noble Pair.



Count Adrian de Baufort and the countess have left Minneapolis.

During the last three months these representatives of Holland's nobility have roomed at the home of Mrs. Walter T. Noble, 419 Ninth street south.

The count and countess took their meals at the boarding house of Mrs. Jeannie Fountaine, 406 Ninth street south.

The count and countess were traveling incognito. [They] lived under the name of Mr. and Mrs. D. Engelberts, but those who came in contact with the pair were always made aware of the count's noble birth, of his rich ancestry and vast estates in far away Bloenendaal, Holland.

Every month a Minneapolis bank is said to have received funds from the count's mother, the aged Countess de Baufort, This remittance, as far as is known by Minneapolis friends of the noble pair, was the only income the count had.

On Valentine's day the count and countess left Minneapolis.

A check for $35, cashed by Mrs. Alice Engelberts, and signed by D. Engelberts, left with a downtown department store, has been returned by the bank, marked "insufficient funds."

A bill for $20 for room rent due was left with Mrs. Walters who housed the couple.

Among other leavings is another bill for $52 due Mrs. Fountaine for three "royal" squares a day.

The police, in the person of Detective Louis Hansen, are enquiring about the whereabouts of the count.


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