Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-10

even the Swiss Guard of the Austrian La-
CATION put his halberd across the entrance
to prevent her entering. Then really
pitiable spectacle was seen; the King HIM
self came to find her, gave her his arm,
! and went with her into the church OF the
monastery. Several officers ran to Join
the King; Lola seized pistol belonging
| to one Of them, and rushing out into the
street, made a display OF herself before
all the people, by threatening TO fire on
them. This theatrical stroke was Kissed;
ana goodness knows what might have
| happened, bad not q squadron OF culras-
sIers, hastily assem- bed, been able to
cover the retreat of the baroness Rosen-
thai, Countess OF Lansfeldt, Lady of the
Royal Order OF Theresa.
The students had told her some hard
truths; she bore them grudge for it. On
February 10 royal decree closes the
University for one year. The riot, first
excited by the students, changes its char
ter; workingmen take part in ii; citizens
| throw up barricades; there are no cries
| this time Of "Hurrah for the cOnstitu-
tion!' or "Hurran Tor the republicv but
there are simply indecent wells of "Down
with the concubnel" The City Council
and the Chamber of Peers succeeded in
persuading the King to have Lola Monies
sent away; she LETT the city under an es-
cort of gendarmes who had no little diff
Guilty in saving her from being torn limb
from limb by the people. Her residence
was pEllaged; the King took notion TO
watch the scene incognito somebody
broke looking glass over his head, and
| he was carried back to the palace all COW
cred with blood. Two hours later Lola
Monies had returned TO Munich in dis
gulse; but the King was well guarded,
and she could not see him. For more
than month she prowled around Munich,
hiding herself In country taVernS, In out
Os-the-way village places, hoping to be re-
called, and to be able to chastise the pop
ulace" that had driven her away. All IN
vain; the King was no longer free to do as
he pleased. She had led him by the nose
pretty TAR, the poor wretch-so far, IN
deed, that on March 90 1913, he was COM
! PEELED to abdicate in favor of Macmillan
H., his eldesC son. in order to save the fu-
| ture of that dynasty which his unhappy
passion had compromised.
The thing was over for good; Lola LETT
! for switzerland, and sojOurned tor some
time 10y the shores OF the Lake of Con-
stance. Like queen detbrOned, she talk
| ed OF her overthrow ana would say: NV hen
[ went to Munich | mad 100000 francs.
and King Louis spent them" She was
| not born for a solitary existence; she
| knew it, and went to London, where her
| adventures had already made her famous.
| 70 marry a woman who had been public
street-slnger. public dancer in low thea
tres, courtesan who had been vice
queen, was something which only an &C.
centric could be tempted to d.. But the
| eccentric appeared in the person of a GER
tain Head, lieutenant in the Guards,
who had an income of about G16,000, or
! about $50, 900 year. SO the Countess OF
| LandSteldt legally changed her name, but
! the family into which she thus entered
! seem TO have borne her no good will; for
| they had her prosecuted for bigamY, on
| the ground that her former husband was
not yet dead. The motive was plausible
and the constables were able to lay hands
! on the person of the newly married bride;
Lieutenant Head furn shed bond, and at
once took his wife across the channel.
! In 1852 he was clumsy enough to get
! drowned at Lisbon; and not long after,
! Thomas James also died. Lola Monies
was thus rid OF both her husbands.
She went to America. and got up kind
of play there, called 1.-The Adventures of
! Lola Monies in Bavaria" IN which she
played the principal part herself. AtNew
| Orleans the public found the farce IN bad
taste. and put the heroine out of town.
| She went to San Francisco, and, as the
! prOverb has it, femme de b{en nc peut
| chOmsr, she there found third husband,
a Mr.. Hull, proprietor of an influential
California newspaper. In spite of, or
perhaps by reason of, this third tie, her
| lie again becomes nOmadIc; she tries to
live at Paris, but is compelled to run
away from her creditors. She gets to-
gether troupe of comedians, and goes TO
Australia to give performances; she re-
turns to America, gives successful lee
lures on the subject of her own career,
and ends by dying neglected and poor, but
! depraved to the very last.
Tue elder Dumas, who knew her, and
who was not IN the least a superstitious
| person, said of her: ''She had the Evil
| Eye All those who bad anything to do
with her had bad luck.'