louden

This is one of those historical characters you can just follow through headlines... Fall 1915: GERMAN COUNT, MAX LYNAR LOUDEN, ARRESTED ON A MYSTERIOUS CHARGE He Has Been Watched by Washington Agents for Several Months New York, Oct. 14--Count Max Lynar Louden, said to be a civil engineer and inventor of military appliances who was arrested here last night...the count was held on a short affidavit charging suspicion of bigamy..." news.google.com/newspapers?id=jrogAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i2kFA... January 1916: "COUNT LOUDEN IS KEEPING PROMISE Count Charles Max Lynar-Louden indicted in Niagara County on numerous counts charging larceny and recently indicted in New York on a bigamy charge, has made another payment to his wife, Mrs. Rose O'Brien Louden of Albion... the count when released on probation owed approximately $4500 to his wife and he agreed to pay back the sum...." The Evening News, North Tonawanda NY, 31 January 1916, p. 1. April 1916: LOUDEN A BIGAMIST, JURY QUICKLY FINDS Count Gave False Record to Court on His Pedigree 2 WIVES APPEAR IN COURT "...Louden lied when he swore that he was a native American, because the records...showed that he was born in Germany and naturalized here in 1894. Louden also swore that he had never been convicted before, whereas it has been discovered that he was convicted of forgery in Germany and spent three years in prison there. ... he escaped from a German prison, being assisted by the wife of a warden. Aside from the two wives who were produced in court at the bigamy trial, Rose O'Brien of Albion NY and Amelia Wendt of Poughkeepsie, 'Count' Louden is alleged to have made several other attachments. Agents...believe that he has been married not fewer than five times..." New York Times 14 April 1916. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0D11FC3D5F13738... June 1916: MILLION DOLLAR PLOT LAID TO INVADE CANADA "...Count Max Lynar Louden, at one time hunted by the United States Federal authorities as an alleged German spy...has just outlined the details of the proposed invasion of Canada by a German army recruited in the United States....'The German Government had topographical maps carefully prepared by competent agents of every country in the world with which is might possibly have war, and it was from this source that the maps were obtained showing the best routes to carry out the proposed invasion.'... Count Louden, recently convicted of bigamy, was given an indeterminate sentence in the penitentiary by Judge Rosalsky...." Aukland Star, 14 June 1916. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS... Spring 1918: "COUNT LYNAR," BIGAMIST, INDICTED FOR FORGERY New Windsor N. Y., March 21--"Count" Max Lynar Louden, who has just finished a term on Blackwell's Island for bigamy, was arraigned to-day in the Orange County Court on indictments charging forgery, found against him a year ago. "Count Lynar," as Louden terms himself, got 40,000 from his victims... by using a cleverly forged seal of the Austro-Hungarian government. He is said to have had a contract for a million soldiers' knapsacks..." New York Tribune 22 March 1918, p. 5. Fall 1919: "COUNT LOUDEN" GIVEN NEW PRISON SENTENCE Term for Bigamy Followed by Court Verdict of 3 Years for Attempted Forgery chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-09-30/ed-... GERMAN COUNT IMPRISONED paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=HN... A NOTORIOUS GERMAN paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OD...

But wait, there's more... Summer 1921: SING SING PLANE IS A FIZZLE Ossining, N. Y., July 21--The working model of a recently patented airship, 1000 feet long and designed to carry 1000 persons across the ocean, this morning is a wreck in the prison yard at Sing Sing. The tangled heap was the model built in the shops of Sing Sing by 'Count' Max Lynar Loudon, sentenced for forgery.... Loudon was first arrested in 1915 on a charge of bigamy. After making his escape and being recaptured, he entered a plea of guilty to the bigamy charge, and revealed a plot of German reservists to invade Canada. He was later charged with hatching a plot to kidnap President Wilson. news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19210720&...

Hahaha, thanks for digging all that up pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity)

Thanks indeed pennylrichardsca. Where do these people come from? We can certainly add the alternate spelling of his last name offered in a number of the citations to the record the next time we update.

Here's the Wikipedia page for Baldy Louden.

Edward Vielmetti: Thanks for the information. We will add it to the source data and reload the description.

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

Bare trees in the background also a pointer to winter.

Street View

and the smoke from the cottage chimneys

Post 1818 when the castle wa built on the top of the moat in the background. discovernorthernireland.com/Donaghadee-Harbour-Lighthouse...