The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-12
ROYAL GHOST.
The white Lady Said to Have
appeared Again in Berlin.
Means Death for Some One The
whole story Of Her Mysterious
From the New York Press.

History.
From the New York Press.
Berlin. Oct. 20.-Just now a new film
has been given to interest in the spectral
"White Lady" of the German royal fam
Hv by disqualification in a Russian maya
zine-The Archives-of a document re-
laring to the subject that was given to
Crown Prince Frederick, father of the
present emperor, in 1870, but which has
never until now been made public
The story we have to tell is in brief this:
On the night before the battle of Saal-
field. in 1906, Prince Louis, of Prussia. and
his adiutant, Count Nostitz, were chat
ting in d room of the castle of Schwarz-
burg Rudolstadt. Prince Louis was
exulting over the victory which he
was confident would be won from
Napoleon on the morrow, when
he suddenly stopped, turned pale and
rushed from the room. Nostitz followed
and saw the prince pursuing through the
hall a white robed figure, which presently
vanished through the wall The sentinel
on Guard had also seen it, but said that he
let it pass because he supposed it some
one belonging to the palace. The next
day, when the PrusianS were in retreat,
Count Nostitz and Prince Ferdinand
again saw the White Lady standing on a
hill and wringing her hand in despair.
Nostitz spurred his horse toward her, but
she vanished A few minutes later the
prince was killed and Nostitz received a
wound under which he sank senseless.
NOstitZ subsequently entered the SER
vice Of the car and became a general.
He never spoke of these occurrences, save
once to his son, who was pledged to
secrecy, and who gave "Unser Fritz" the
record of a full generation after his faith
ers death.
SCARED THEM TO DEATH.
This is not the only nor most explicit
story of theappearance of,the White Lady.
This fOrerunner of evil has been chilling
the blood of the various branches of the
Hohenzollern family with persistent NAL
ice for something like 800 years, and if
accounts are true, she has succeeded in
soaring more than one of them 10 death.
Even in our own day the good old En-
peror William owned to a nervous dread
Of his Ghostly relative. In his old age
great pains were taken at the palace to
keep from his ears the occasional stories
Of her visits, lest his health should be in
juriously affected.
Just when she began herthankless task
is not altogether clear. Learned Germans
have written many a profound treatise
concerning her. The first recorded appear
auce was in 1856, when she was in the
habit of frightening the cavaliers in the
palace at Bayreuth. From then on she
was seen so frequently that designing
persons began to assume her guise for
their own purposes, and in 1910 one of
these came TO grief Margrave Albrecht
was a soldier who evidently feared
neither man nor devil. When the White
Lady glided before him one night he
promptly seized her and threw her down
stairs. Next morning he learned that he
had killed one of the Gomestics. Twenty
years later, however, when Margrave
George Friedrich talked of rebuilding
the palace of Plassen burg the White
Lady became so troublesome that he gave
up the idea.
MANY APPEARANCES.
There are eight or ten recorded in.
stances Of her appearance in the next
century, the Great Electors court chap
lain, Brunsenius, being among those who
bear witness to her. In the following
hundred years little is heard of her, but
she resumed business with great activity
at the beginning of our own century.
She began promptly in 1893 by coming
out of wall before a musketeer and
standing in front of him long enough
to permit him subsequently to draw
her portrait She caused many a
panic in the Berlin Schloss during
the next few years; but, like a true
German patriot, her chief attention was
paid to her country's French enemies. She
often showed herself TO the French OFF
GERS chartered in the old castle at Bay
reuth from 1906 on and in 1909 she gave
terrible fright to Gen. d'Espagne. His
staff officers heard a loud cutlery one
night, and on rushing into the generals
room they found him unconscious on the
floor, while the bed was upset in the
middle of the room When the general
had been bled and restored to conscious
ness he declared that the White Lady had
come to his bedside and tried to strange
him. The next day he sent a troop of
soldiers to the palace to tear up floors
and panels i'll the search for secret
passages, but they found none. After
ward the general was being shown
through the portrait gallery, when he
staggered and pointing to picture eX-
claimed, 1t is She! That means my
death :" He was killed in battle few
weeks later. Napoleon who was notori-
ously Superstitious, was so much moved
by DEspagnes experience that he re-
fused to sleep in the castle when he passed
through Bayreuth. But there is a story
that the White Lady found him out,
which was certainly the only proper
thing for her to do under the circum-
stances.
The Prince of Montfort, a son OF Jerome
Napoleon, used to keep letter written in
July, 1910, to his father, then King of
Westphalia, by the minister at Berlin.
In it the minister said that there was no
news except that the court was in COM
motion because the White Lady had been
seen in the palace. In a few days dis
patches came saying that the beautiful
Queen Louise OF Prussia had died sud
denly on the 18th. There were stories
atoa5 in Berlin of the appearance OF
the White Lady in 1910, just before
the death Of Frederick William Ill, and
again in 1861, previous to the death OF
Frederick William ~, and you in Amer
lea must have heard of similar rumors
before the death of the young Prince
Maldemar a few years ago, and again
during the pathetic illness Of "UnseI
FnJz' and the last days Of his venerable
father.
Who the White Lady originally was is a
question almost as pulling as the identity
OF Caper Hauser or the Man in the Iron
Mask