The evening times., 1896-03-09
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OLD WORLD HETTY GREENS.

Millionaire w omen Who Have Horses,
Dogs and Avarice as Fads.
TT MERICA has Hetty Green and Hetty
Green has vast wealth and what
Nv may pardonabiy called little eccen-
l. L tricities. The countries of the
Old World lay claim to women
whose wealth is vast and whose pecuiiari-
ties are such that their relatives would be
willing to see them tcnderiy cared for in in
sane asylums, while the Ironey was in the
hands of prospective heirs.
Princess Isabca de-Bcauyeau-Craon Is
one of these people with considerate rela-
tives, and just now there is suit to
deprive her OF her property, and consigu
her to mad-housc.
The princess never married, although
wOoers came in numbers, among them
two Americans-Home, the spirifualist ind
friend of Dunraven, and DR.. Harris, the
prophet, Laurence Oliphant's friend.
Mems motives she suspected. and she did
not love them. Dogs she trusted and she
has devoted her life to them. The result
is that her dogs are yeritable canine Won
ders. She had, by the way, a theory that
husbands might be taken Oh trial for a year.
and, IL at the expiration of that time, u
couple did not get along. they We're TO go
their ways without more ado.
This was one of the points emphasized to
prove her insane.
The Austrian Princess Nontleat, who
was so shockingiy murdered u short while
ago near Cracow, Is another foreign celeb
rity whose whims equaled or even sur
passed her money.
She was masculine in appearance, wore
top boots, short black skirt and mans
oyercoat and slnucii hat. She completed the
manlike resemblance by smoking strong
cigars all day long as she rode astride over
her estates.
Horses We're her passion and she never
lived in her magnificent castle near Craeow,
but stunning her neighbors She occupied
aden in tbestables other stud-farm.
In this room she was found wlthhcrihroat
cut. Her desk had been broken open and
ransacked. There were evidences Of IA terri
BILE struggle, but nothing gave any clue
to the murderer. who has never been discoy-
cred.
The princess fortune was divided BET ween
Archduke Raincr Of Austria and King Hum
bert Of Italy, as heirs of her father.
Russia's moncy-queen with oddities was
titt ldtc ITmttss ltildfHltskS' he1 VIII -
giving rise toone of the most eusational
suits ever tried in that country.
In her youth she was maid Of honor
to the late czarina. She then inherited her
brothers fortune in addition to her own,
which r.valed that Of the Demidoffs, and at
that time she developed incredible avaricc.
She took but one meal Il day. which cost
not more than IL cents. Her garments were
so cheap as to make her appearance in any
society an inipossibility, and rather than
purchase any daily paper she regularly bor-
rowed it of neighbCr.
She had Mouiik for servant, who con-
fessed that he had strangled his mistress
with a towel because she had accused him
of stealing some worn-out garments that
had belonged to her brother.
On the morning of her death she was
also to have appeared as defendant In a
libel suit brought for accusing one OF her
former friends of stealing Il pocket hand
kerchief.
This rCh-nIillionaiTess was buried as
pauper. the undertaken being unwilling TO
take the risk of being recompcnsed by the
heirs. who were absent from St.Petcrsburg.