The Northern Guardian.
Hartlepool, Cleveland, England, 1896-12-25 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT OF A PRINCESS.

A ROMANFIC STORV.

It was ann;un.c—erl— ''
--------------------- Brea:tie'
that Prince Joseph COOPMAO Chimay's wife had
eloped with the leader of a gipsy band. The Buda.
pest papers imagine they hese already discovered
the pair. They relate, says the Vienna corms.
pontlent of the Daily Nam that on Tuesday a
strange couple arrived at Stuhlweinenhurg from
Fiume, the man dark and Ripay.like, nod his coin.
panics younir and very elegant. She had much
luggage and a maid. When the papers announced
the elopement, the district judge moot to the hotel
where they were staying and asked their namee.
The man admitted that he was the leader of • hand.
lie stated that hie name was John Rig°, that

MADAME WAS A PRINCESS
who admired his music and himself in Paris, and
had lived with him niece the autumn. There was
no elopement, but an open leave-taking, and the
Priory, her husband, knew she had left him, and
with whom. The papers further say that the
Princess ha. been to see her lover's parents, who
live in a clay hut. She kissed them, promising she
would marry their son when she was separated
from her husband. The Prince. was Min Clara
Ward, of Detroit. The petition for divorce will
come before the Court at Charleroi, and is likely to
prove one of the most sensational awes of the day.
The beauty of the Princes. de Chimay is renowned
all over the Continent, but kb. ! her eccentricities
. .

(the Prince's "Ce;;;;;;I will perhaps use a less
generous word) are as renowned as her beauty, and
it is reported by the society papers, says the
Brussels correspondent of the Pall Mall ruzfete
that the ease will make many a great name feel,
very uncomfortable by mason of several
UNPLEASANT REMINISCENCES
which the lawyers have catalogued, numbered, and
summarised. The marriage of the Prince de Chime),
six years ago was one of those brilliant Mies by
which Europe's old aristocracy delights in cele-
brating the union of her sons with the daughters of
Chicago millionaires. The Prince belonged to one
of the oldest and most glorious families in Europe,
and he brought back with him to his ancestral
halls one of those startling American beauties with
• fortune of from fifty to sixty million francs. Miss
Ward is a daughter of Captain Ward, one of the
richest men of Michigan, and at the time of her
marriage was only 17 years old. The last escapade.
of the beautiful woman led the despairing husband
to take the final step for the honour of his name and
that of his children, for the Princess is the mother
of two:

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present attainable..—Advt.

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