Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-20
PRItCELI SCANDAL.
the German CrOxVn.--P a Ia II e
Ecige! and Fer sfnpcrisi Lover.

Some startling facts have recently
become knc WI III regard to the poison
! ing of Prince Frederick William, of
| Prussia, for W ilich the Jesuits were de-
nOUnceG III unmeasured terms. AL
I though the German newspapers have
| &c. vclItured to publish a line Oh the
| StInject, II IS no longer Il secret at the
| Capital that the .iesuits had nothing
| whatever TO do with the poisoning, and
/ that the real criminal, who was not
/ prosecuted at ali for the ofIense, was Il
! woman. The first suspicious in re
, gard II this mysterious affair were
. aroused by the appearance i'll January
! lat, III Il Berlin newspaper, of the an
! nouncemeHt that Henry Peltzer had
been married to Pauline Weigel.-
, PcltZer was miGdle-aged attendant of
TIE household OF the Crown Prince,
anu Pauline Weigel, who ostensibly
carried on the business of a milliner,
lad for years been the mistress of the
Crown Prince. The Crown Prince, il
! appears, formed the acquaintance of
Pauline Weigel shortly after his mar
Iiage 70 the eldest daughter of Queen
Victoria. Pauline az that time was a
, dAsiiing, spirited beauty, dark blonde,
Of slender, graceful form, an express
slye, vivaclous ,countenance, and ell
gaginG manners The Crwon Prince,
meeting the fair Pauline, who was
then but twenty years old, at a popu-
| lar bali, fell in love with her. A week
afterward she was his mistress, and
from the fret she gained an ascend
ancy over him which she managed to
retain until q very recent period. In
the course of time she bore several
children to the Prince, who provided
for their wants. EThis liason did not
long remain secret to the Crown
Princess Victoria, and it led to many
an angry alteration between her and
her hayward husband. In 1860
definite rupture between them was
avertcd only by the Grown Princess
father, Prince Albert, who hurried
from Windsor Castle to Berlin, and
succeeded in effecting a reconciliation
between his daughter and her hus-
band. The latter promised to behave
himself in future; but, although for a
ton, he did not by any means break
off with Pauline Weigel, who, knowing
full we'll her great power over the
Grown Prince, ingeniously stimulated
his jealousy of her, and thereby
strengthened the inches in which she
held him captive.
Pauline Weigel's beauty was not
sensibly impaired in the course of
time, and it was not until 1866 that
the Crown Prince made an effort to
shake off her yoke. The death of his
Qegitimate) son, Sigismund, which
occurred just at the breaking out of
the war with Australia, made q pro-
found impression upon him. When |
he returned to Berlin, after the con- |
clusion of peace, he told his mistress |
they must part. Pauline Weigel, who,
on her part, had become pas
sionately attached to him succeeded by |
dint of tears, reproactes and threats |
OF suicide, in keeping him attached to |
her. The Crown Prince succumbed |
again, but thenceforth visited her more |
rarely. Finally, in November last, he
resolved upon rupture. He visited |
her one night in the early part of that |
month, and told her with Hohenzol- |
lern brusqueness THAT their iason
must come TO an end; that she must |
marry; that Henry Peltzer, who had
frequently acted as go-between for
them, had consented to become her
husband; that he would literally pro-
vide for them, and they must leave
Berlin and Germany after the we'd
ding. Vainly did she try 10 shake his
determination. Tears and supplica-
lions proved nnayailing. The only
thing which she ext0rted from him
was the promise that he would visit
her again on the following evening,
but he told her most emphatically that
it would be for the last time.
At half past eight in the evening the
Prince arrived in a public hack. What
occurred between him and Pauline
Weigel during this their last interview