Mohave County miner., 1890-03-15
SHE PLAYED HER PART.
Strange and Romantic Nfs u ths Count
- sarsltA Way.
Result Of . nsthsrs psesit-A 1saatifsl !
yenng Girl Masqusradss for Many Years
In Hsa's ClotAss--Harrisgs xxpssss ths
Svindle and Lands Her in Prison.

Tho Countess Sarolta Way. who for
tho last SIX years has played = mans
part in + mans attire before the sport
Ing world OF the Austrian Empire. is
lying Ill and penniless at q house Of =
friend in Pesth, says recent telegram.
Excessive dissipation has shattered hcr
health and her fortune.
A record of the Countess Sarolta
Ways young life reads like tho first
acts Of a melodrama- Gen. Count
Ladislss Way married her mother
thirty six years ago. He was the sole
possessor OF the vast and unincumber-
cd estates Of bis family. ranked high
In the army, and was O chamberlain
Of tho Emperor. The frat hve years
OF his married life passed and his wife
oore him no heir. He was in dispair.
for in case he had no child his proper
ty would 60 to the crown at his death.
In the ninth year Of his marriage,
however, the Countess bore him lit
tie girl He had waited so long and
30 anxiously for the birth OF an heir
that when the baby came no one dared
to tell him IL was not the male heir he
had been looking for. The Countess
decided that for her husbands sake
she would pretend that her child was
q boy. and would rear 1t and dress 1t
as boy. The priest was induced to
baptize the baby publicly as Sander
"a boys name). When the little girl
became IA years old an incident oc-
CURED which upset all the previous
calculations OF the Way household.
The Countess gave birth TO a real boy.
Tho Countess then confessed the
whole deception 70 her husband.
Sarolta, as the girl was called after
this. was incorrigible. and persisted in
playing the part which her mother had
assigned to her. As she matured she
took TO drinking. gambling and smok-
ing. just as she would have been expect
ed TO do II she had really been the
male heir Of all the Ways. When she
reached her majority she made for
NAL declaration Of Independence from
all parental authority. She went the
rounds OF the big cities In . high hat
cutaway coat and light trousers,
plunged headlonR into almost every
dissipation which they afforded, fought
three duels with men who reproached
her with her sex, and eventually
brought up In Pesth head-over.heels
In debt. She affected TO become in
fatuated with Bulgarian soubrette.
This sort Of life increased the
countess debts 50 enormously that
she was put to her wits ends to keep
herself out OF Jail. In her straits she
decided that her only hope Of better
times lay in an advantageous mar
riage. She found a beautiful young
girl named Marie Engelhardt the
daughter OF rich army contractor In
Layback, introduced herself as Count
Sander Way. and, under the pretense
Of being man, got Herr Engelhardt
to accept her a. q son-in-law. The
marriage ceremony between Fraulein
Marie and the countess was perform
ed. the nuptials were celebrated, and
the quasi husband pocketed tho big
dowry OF the quasi wife. The whole
swindle was discovered shortly.
Fraulein Marie was taken home by
her father, and the countess was i'm
prisoned in Klagonfurt although not
before she had squandered all the
money she got from Englehardt and
was threatened with confinement In an
asylum.
A few weeks ago she was released
from prison and went to the house OF
Fraulein Czeky. her friend 10 Pesth.
She took to her bed Immediately,
suffering from nervous prostration.
The Countess is OF middle height
with good chest and heavy shoulders.
She has short curly dark hair, hazel
eyes, q saucy nose. and a Cupid's
mouth. Although the lines Of her face
have been somewhat deepened and
hardened by her fast life, she still
looks like handsome, dashing young
fellow Of 20 years.
A GOOD IDEA.