Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-05-19
CRAZY ROYALTY.
rHR ERATIC CAREER OF PRINCE JOSEPH
= sULK0WSKI
Inmates Of the Insane asylum at DOsbling, a Su'uf'
UfVlsnna, From Which The Eccentric
Noblsman Has Just Escaped.

BERLIN, May 10 Prince Jo'eP"
kowski, member ofthe upper heu 'e OF 'ne
Prussian L ,ndtag, has escaped from the
ASYLUM at DoebliDg, suburb OF VIENNA
where be was confined. Prince Snlko"sKi,
DIXIE of Bieliiz. is one of the greatest
landed proprietors in Europe, and Ills vsgar
;es and eccentricites were the talk OF every
capi,al of the continent until ne was plac'
ed under restraint. His wealth may be
estimated by the fact that bic estates IN
Hungary alone yield an annual revenue oil
So, 600, 900 and that he owns the entire
town of Belsk, a trading centre, with
population OF some 25, 900 inhabitants.
Prince Sulkowski began his cratic Ca
reer by running away with his sisters
povernese, young lady named Victorine
Lehman, whom he married couple of
years afterward for the express purpose
of exssperati1g his father and brother
His intentions were crowned with success,
for the old gentleman died of stroke OF
anonlexy on receiving the news that the
wedding had taken place. Having accom-
plished this and come iato POSSESSION OF his
fs.her,s title and estate he decldedthat he
had no further use for the ex-gogerness'
from whom he separted, after settling up.
on her SIC. 900 year for the remainder OF
her life.
Finding that in consequence OF his be-
ing a Roman Catholic 1t would be In
possible for him to obtain divorce In
Austria, he took up his residence IN Prus-
sis. where he likewise has large estates,
and caused himself to be nsturalizsd as a
German. Having accomplished this helde
manded and obtained a decree of divorce
ffon the Prussian trib mails, and then set
10 work to search for another wife. With
this object in view he travelled from one
end of Europe to 1.-THE other, at ended by
the most extraord nary retinue-oDe, in
deed, of such competition as to create
serious doubts concerning his sanity. a
correspondent writing from Vienna gave
the following account OF the princes vsg-
aries.
TOOK A WHOLE CIRCUS WITH HIM
shall never forget the up,osr and ex
citment which his arrival created in the
ordinary peaceful, quiet, and humdrum
city of Copenhagen. Not only was he
accompanied by an enormous staff of sec
retaries, chamberlains, cooks, and sew
vants, but also by an entire travelling meu-
agerie, including two full grown lions,
baby elephant, cagefnl OF monkeys, a
private band of musicians, several female
scrobats, and two danseuses. Like the
late King L)uis of Bavaria, Prince Sulkow-
ski disliked the publicity ofan ordinary hea
tire or circus, and therefore maintained
troup of his own from one years end to
the other for his private amusement The
sum of money thus spent in journeyiDg
about in search of wife must have been
something enormous, for not only were
two long special trains required for the
conveyance of the party from one stop to
another, but, moreover, it was invariably
necessary to hire ths enter hotel for their
accommodation.
Probably the presence of the wild beasts
among the prince-duke travelling COM
panions had the effect of frightening away
all marIiageable maidens OF noble birth,
and at length, in sheer disgust a. the failure
Of his search, he contracted a matrimonial
alliance with one of the danseuses of his
priavte circus troupe. The ceremony
by which pretty Ida Jaeger, one of the
stars OF the Berlin stage, was raised to
the rank of Princess Sulkowssi az d Ouch
ess OF Bieliiz, took place in Switzerland,
and was subsequently performed over again
at Bonn.On the Rhine.
The union resulted in the birth of
dounhfar Whap tho child xpao ohont trun
years of age the Princes mental condition
became such as to render it necessary that
he should be put under restraint, and he
was accordingly placed under the care of
Drs Krafft-Ebling and Won Leidersdorf
at D1ebliDg. As e council composed Of
the most eminent physicians both of Aus
tIia and Germany had unanimously de-
clsred that there was no possibility of his
recovering his sanity, it became necessary
to arrange for the care and disposal of his
vast property. Prince Anthony Sulkow-
ski at once put forward his claims on the
ground that his brothers. marriage with
Ida jaeger was illegal, and that therefore
neither she nor her little daughter had
any right to the title and name of Sulkow-
ski or to the estate.
THE DANsEUsE MAINTAINED HER RIGHTS.
The plea which he put forward and
which was sustained by the lower courts
in Austria. although subsequently reversed
on appeal, was that, since Prince Joseph
had neglected to 90 through the formality
of having his name removed from the table
of magnates-as the Hungarian house OF
peers is called-he still remained sub
ject of the emperor Of Austro-H Hungary,
aud that his naturalization as Prussian
WAS therefore both incomplete and illegal.
o. course, aoy flaw in the act of natursli-
cation was sufficient to invalidate not only
Prince Joseph's subsequent divorce from
his first wife, but also HE marriage
to Ida Jaeger.
For several years past the matter has
been a subject of litigation in both the
Austrian and German law courts, bat has
quite recently been entirely settled in IA
vOr of the balleriLa and her child. The
decision by which Prince Antbony's
claims have been non-suited is perhaps
partly due TO his personal unpopulsrity,
and also to the fact that Princess Ida's
cause has been CALAMITY chsmpioned, both
here and at Berlin, by Count Hans Vile
EEK, persona grattissima at both of the