Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04

in Mons Clothss-Marriage Exposes tie
6windle and Lands Her in Prison.
The Countess Sarolta Way, who for
the last six years has played mans
part in Ia mans attire before the sport
ing world OF the Austrian Empire. is
lying i'll and penniless at house OF a
friend in Pesth. says a recent telegram.
Excessive dissipation has shattered her
health and her fortune.
A record of the Countess Sarolta
Ways young life reads like the first
acts OF melodrama. Gen. Count
Ladislas Way married her mother
thirty-six years ago. He was the sole
possessor OF the vast and unincumber-
ed estates Of his family. ranked high
in the army. ana was chamberlain
of the Emperor The first hve years
OF his married life passed and his wife
bore him no heir. He was in dispair,
for in case he had no child his proper
ty would go 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
so anxiously for the birth of an heir
that when the baby came no one dared
to tell him it was not the male heir he
had been locking for. The Countess
decided that for her husbands s,ke
she would pretend that her child was
boy, and would rear it and dress it
as boy. The priest was induced to
baptize the baby publicly as Sander
Ga boys nancy. When the little girl
became Ii years old an incident oc-
Cured which upset all the previous
calculations OF the Way household.
The Countess gave birth to II real boy.
Tho Countess then confessed the
Whole deception To 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 if she had really been the
ma heir OF all the Ways. When she
reached her majority she made for
nal declaration of independence from
all parent l authority. She went the
rounds OF the big cities in high hat
cutaway coat, and light trousers,
plunged headlong into almost every
dissl pation which they afforded, fought
three duels with men who Reproduced
her with her sex, and eventually
brought up in Pesth head-over- heel Is
in debt. She affected to become in
fatuated with Bulgarian soubrette.
This sort of life increased the
countess debts so 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 beautiful young
girl named Marie Engelhardt. the
daughter of a rich army contractor in
Lay back. introduced herself as Count
Sander Way. and, under the pretense
OF being a man, got Herr Engelhardt
TO accept her as a son-in-law. The
marriage ceremony between Fraulein
Marie and the countess WAS perform
cd, the nuptials were celebrated, and
the quasi husband pocketed the big
dowry OF the quasi wife. The whole
swindle was discovered shortly
Fraulein Marie was taken home By
her father, and the countess vas 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 in Pesth.
She took to her bed Immediately.
suffering from nervous pro5tration.
Tue Countess is OF middle height,
with II good chest and heavy shoulders.
! She has short, curly dark hair. hazel
eyes, saucy nose. and n Cupid SHOW
mouth. Although the lines Of her face
have been somewhat deepened and
h rdened by her fast life, she still
looks like handsome. dashing young
fellow Of 20 years.
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