The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-18
A FATALITY IN SUICIDES.
The Series of Disasters Connected with
Baron Rirsch, the Philanthropist.

baron Hlrsch, the PhilanthrOpist.
From Vienna Letter.
The suicide of Countess Victor Wimpffe n
at Vienna recently has drawn attention to
the strange and mysterious fatality which
seems to pursue every one in anyway con-
nected with Baron Hirsch, the famous ia
nous Hebrew financier. The late cou ltess
was one of the four daughters of thu great
Viennese banker, Baron Sina, who. up to
the day of his sudden death in 1876, was
Hirsch'S partner in the Imperial Ottoman
railway conc Assion and in a vast number of
equally lucrative enterprises and schemes
On the decease of Baron Sina each of his
four daughters inherited fortune of $15,-
100000, which was still further increased on
the death of their mother in 1884 The
eldest of the girls married Count Victor
Wimpffen who treated his wife so badly
that she was obliged to obtain judicial
separation from him in order toshield herself
from his brutality and to save her fortune
for her three children. The second sister mar
ried the late Duke de Castries, the brother
of the Marechale Macmahon, who squan-
dered his wife's fortune to such an extent
that it was only by the legacy beQueathed
to the duchess on the death of her mother
in 1884 that the couple were saved from q
very disgraceful bankruptcy.
1uo OauRuVeT Tue WIG OIL
Prince George Mavrocordato a member of
one of the noblest families of Greece. Like
her sister, the Countess Wimpffen, the
Princess, after a few years of unhappy
married life, found it necessary to obtain a
judicial separation from her husband, who
at one moment held the appointment of
Greek minister and envoy to the French
republic, a mission which, however, was
brought to a sudden and terrible close by
hA taid Il ,lv-
cnmstances of their only son, who acted as
| secretary to the legation. Nor was the
fourth daughter of Baron Sina any hap
pier, for, married to the Prince Ypsilanti,
| the Greek envoy TO the Court of Vienna,
her husband bacame mixed up in such dis
credits bic financial transaction that he only
escaped worse fate by suicide, while she,
poor woman, was forced to undergo the
| disgrace of being declared bankrupt by
| the Austrian tribunals in March, 1856.
1t may possibly be remembered that the
| late Countess Wimpffen'S brother-in-law
| Count Felix WImpffen, who was connected
with most of the financial schemes of Bar
| ons Hirsch and Sina, committed suicide
| while Austrian ambassador to France, by
| shooting himself at Paris in public ives
| pasienne" in the wear 1892 The only son
| and heir of Baron Hirsch died very sudden
| ly two years ago, and his favorite niece
| Madame de Vlllerov, young and singularly
| beautiful woman of 3D. killed herself a few
weeks ago by jumping into the Seine at
| Bougival. Baron Hirsch's most trusted
| agent, Herr Won Blaschke, a well-known
| Viennese club man, blew his brains ont at
| Venice last November, and even the Grown
| Prince of Austria, WHO died SO tragically
the other day at Meierling, is known to have
| had frequent recourse to the Baron's purse,
a number of the latter's letters having been
| found among the papers of the unfortunate
| archduke. 1t would appear as if Baron
Hirsch has become alarmed at the series OF
| deaths and disasters, which are left in his
wake. and that he is doing his best to propi-
tate both fate and public opinion by his
monster dona tions to various charities, es-
pecially to Hebrew ones.