Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-04
ALLY APPEAL-wEDNESD APRIL 4 1888.

Tyrol. He was educated in the Protestant faith,
but III 1873 he visited America and was there con-
ysrfed TO CathOliclsna. He at once entered The
Catholic communion and was in 1879 appointed
q standing end an influence that he was not slow
10 use in later life. The story of the Reichsrdt
legacy and the connection Of Baron RammiBg5n
with it Is in itsef Tich in romance and his
tory. About the middle of the eighteenth
serving in the army Of the Grand MOgul OF Delhi
against the Erglish, founded the prt1cip ality OF
SirdhRnG, in Northwest India He soon became
enormously rich. De die1 and the Legacy left BY
him fell TO his wife, the cruel Begun Somru who,
after the demise Of her husband, embraced CathO
Hctsn and adopted as her heir David DyCe SOmOre,
a grandson of Gen. ReicDarlt. The East India
Company, potent even in this matter, nov seques-
tered the legacy on the preteIse that after Rel
srdts death Begun SOmru was Ouly entitled 70
the usulruct of the pTincps lily of Srdhans Long,
costly, complicated lawsuits easued and were not
finally terminated until 1872, when he PTiyy
Council in London confirmed ii compounds which
had been arranged between the .aimants
The heir, David Dyce, married the dau7 liter of
Admiral st. Vincent, and was subsequently de-
clAred lunaiic on account of his extravaganza.
In revenge he disinheTited his wife and wiled all
his property to the East India Company. Re died,
his Telict married Lord Forester, aud Immediately
attacked he- decesse husbands will. While this
lawsuit was progre sing, some here about 1850 1t
was suddenly announced that Gen Reichsrdt
not an Indian, but TyrOlese- His descendants
in the Tyrol were summoned, and Hnguist
named Genaud, of Bozeu, claimed the legacy on
behalf Of woman pretending to descend from
Re chaTdls sister. The case miscarried but Ge-
uAuO, nothing aDaEne0, procured an0tner client,
Marie Widmayr formerly cook to the vicar Of that
locality. In 1876 Count Gunther SternbeTg intro
duced This pair TO Baron Pawel Rammiugen,
whose accomplishments made him q valuable
man to promote the interests of the claimants
He made at least five trips to London, and many
10 Rome, Paris and NiennE, and collected 80. OO0h
from small capitalists under promise Of repaytng
them threefold. He induced several notable per
sonages in England and Austria to interest them
selves sndtook advantage of a communication from
Lord Denbigh stating that Begun Somru mad be-
queathed a large sum TO the Catholic mi sion at
Agra TO represent that the whole affair was of
primary importance to the Catholic Church. He
thus won over the clergy, and his conversion
came in conveniently at this time he addressed
himself to the superior of the Capuchin Friars at
Rome, promisi that the Tyrolese heirs would
pay the Capucnins their share in return for their
support.
The baron boosted that he had secured the f.
yor OF Lord Ellis and Lord Ripon, vicerOy of India,
but his claim seems to have had little no found
alton. AL these points set forth in the act in
dieting the baron, besides many petty charges.
After 1t had been read in court the president made
the extraordinary remark that as the baron's rela
tions had. testified to his unblemished character,
either he must have acted without their knowl-
edge or they had made false statements. The
baron pleaded not guilty, aud alleged that he had
been induced by Count Sternbers, VINO mad hrst
consulted the Emperor, that Counts Sehosnborn
and Folkenhayu had been interested in the case
and that the chances favored the success
a note addressed by the Austrian embassy
in Rome TO he foreign Office in Vienna, and let
tiers from Cardinals Jacobini aud simeoni. Count
Scnoenborn's testimony admitted that, out of
friendship, he had spoken in the baron's behalf
to Count raaffe. Baron Calico aud the late Baron
Haymerle on the subject and mad received reas-
surfing replies The charges OF :he government
against Baron Pawel Rammingen were all s1s-
tanned, the evidence being direct aud indisput-
able, and the trial. which began December 10Th,
ended Gu the 10th with u verdict OF conviction.
The court sentenced MIN 10 seven years lmprison-
ment with deprivation OF his title to nobility.
The last sct of the sensational trial was the de-
cision of Friday, wnen the Court OF Appeals
confirmed the sentence of the Innspruck Assizes.