The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-15
PRINCE AND PAUPER.
Hatzfeldt is in a Sea of Financial
Troubles.
THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM,
May She Never Find Him, 'Twould Give Him
Pain to Meet Again the Girl He
Left Behind Him.

lSpeeialto THE HERALD-Examiner Cable.]
BERLIN, March 14-One or two artfully
written paragraphs in the social announce
lhents of the newspapers give information
THAT Prince Hatzfeldt and his princess,
CLARA Huntingdon may be expected here
shortly. There is not the slightest social
tiutter over the news. In fact, the chances
of the prince and princess getting
any recognition at all in court
circles, are, as we say in
America, Every SLIM We have
been hearing some queer stories here
for the past few weeks about the princes
heavy losses at the Cercle in Paris. We
hear also that he received the cut direct
from Count Munster at a reception given
by Minister Whitelaw Reid. This snub to
the prince was more marked because Count
Munster spoke for some minutes with
Princess HatzfelGt and observed after
wards TO a mutual friend that he admired
her very much. Even if nothing else were
in the way Prince Tranz's early career in
<Berln, his wildnesS and queer ways Of
rAiSing money, would mitigate against the
social aspirations of the princess. 1t is
possible this might have been forgiven if
since his marriage he had acted like a man
and boldly faced his creditors instead of
If the prince comes back here there is
likely to be some trouble about scaling his
debts. He is heir to the largest estate of
the Furstenbergs and to the millions of his
mother, but that lady, who Is so proud of
her great descent, is none too proud that
the American millionaire father-in-law
should pay for his daughters title by set
ting the princes debts. MIR. Huntington
has written to some of the creditors stating
that he was willing to pay proportion OF
the debts, but he thought it only right that
HatZfeldt'S rich parents should do the
same, Whether they will go SO far as 10
iallow the princes creditors to force him
Unto a bankruptcy court remains to be seer.
Il A few days ago Baron Egbert Fursten-
berg, a friend of the prince, who Endorsed
his promissory notes, was in Berlin. The
baron said the prince had avoided all at
tempts for a reckoning of his accounts and
made the following assertions:
Il wish to correct a misstatement," said
he, (which Prince Hatzfeldt made some
time ago. He claimed that l had received
most OF the money raised on the proms.
sorry notes and instead Of him owing me,
was indebted to him for large amount
If he said that, he simply lied l care less
about receiving my money than about dis
proving the falsehoods, which not alone
Prince Hatzfeldt, but his parents, have
spread regarding my connection with
him. The whole family have acted il
a vile manner. 'Gniedertrachlib' is
the word the baron used When
/ first went to old Prince Hatzfeldt
he promised me that thesess~ notes
should be paid out of capital which was
laid aside for the benefit of his brother,
Count Hatzfeldt, German ambassador to
London, but that money was afterwards
spirited out of Germany and deposited in
Switzerland under another name, SO it can't
be touched. Franz Hatzfeldt and were
intimate friends. He came to me and asked
me to sign some promisSory notes for him.
They were blank and he said he would fill
them out for 10000 salden. In fact, be
made them for $4,000. 1t was merely q
friendly accommodation, 1 thought
never imagined that a son of hatfield
would not meet his obligations
did not have pfennig of the money, mol
did owe Hatzfeldt any money at the time
lAAfterwardS we owned some horses to
>Fether Hatzfeldt managed them, but
would never give me an accounting
Though / frequently asked for one. When
fthe crash came he fed, and l had to face
the music. paid from so to 40 per cent
on these notes, nearly four hundred thou
sand marks.
''Hatzfeldt's parents first promised tC
pay them and then declined on the ground
that ] was indebted to their son. This
they knew TO be false. L wrote to HAITI
feldt time and again Tor an account OF the
Indebtedness, but he would never answer
LOANED him n cash ID, 900 marks and 9,00(
the horses won. l have figured up care
fully what the expenses were, and fine
they amounted to but 45, 600 marks, so thai
at most j owe him $4,000 marks to offset
his Indebtedness to me of 100000 marks"
Il have brought suit against him and he
has never alleged in court that / was in
,debted to him. He has by all sorts of sub
serfuges, delayed the finding of judg-
utent. He avoided the service of any
papers. When ] sued him in Berlin he
claimed to have a residence elsewhere, ano
used ether legal bubbles When, after
three years squabbling, the courts decided
in my favor, he allowed Judgment to bt
rendered by default. This gave him &
chance of reopening the case and securing
another long continuance, Not once did he
assert in court that owed him money!
Other creditors of the prince here are
also indulging in some sharp talk about
him. For long time he put them off witt
promises that he would settle with them i.
he succeeded in making rich marriage
Since his afliliaticn with the Huntington
millions almost any proposal he chose Il
make would have been accepted, but he has
made none. His creditors are exceedingly
angry at his refusal to pay the slightes
attention TO their letters, and the talk they
are indulging in, will, to say the least
seriously retard any social aspirations the
princess may have in the land of her titled
husbands birth.
The Girl He Left Behind Him.