The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-11-17
!. PERFECT POLYGLOT
PECULIAR CASE OF A GRANDDAUGH-
TER OF EMPEROR MAMMALIAN.

She Was Arrested In Toledo and is Sur
rounded With nv tery-speaks In Forty
four Languages Only Twenty-thre'
Years OId-Romantic History Told.
Mrs. William Diamond, more gener
ally known as Pauline Fernandzia, 18th,
Spanish woman with history" wa
recently tried in the police court at To
ledo before jury for the second time
the first jury having failed to agree OIL
what appears to be trumpet up charge
The woman has lived in Toledo fol
some time, and II has been understood
that she was descendant of the nobil
| ity Of Spain. but she has always beer
decidedly reticent about talking about
herself. Prosecuting Attorney W. T. S.
O'Hara, however, has been hunting ar
her history, and he determined to see
what really was in the case.
Enough has been learned positively
to warrant the statement that she is q
granddaughter of the deposed and late
Emperor Macmillan. This personally
she refused to confirm or deny, but
breaks down every time the subject ia
broached. by
She is known. however. to have con-
fided this fact to a friend, and subse-
quent investigation bears out the asser-
ton. She speaks Al dialects, and writes
beautifully in Hebrew, English, Span
ish, Portuguese and Italian. Expert lin
GUSTS have tested her in these as well
as in Danish, Norwegian, French, Ger
man, Greek, Arabic, Moorish, Mosoon,
dialects of the west African coast 2
Of the Brazilian empire, and she has
been able TO speak huently in several
others of the oriental dialects.
Her mother died in Madrid when she
was born. Her father was assassinated
in his own house in Spain for political
reasons when she was but 10 years old.
She was stabbed in the face at the time,
and still carries the scar at the corner
of her left eye.
This caused her to lose her eyesight
until she was treated by celebrated
oculists Of Great Britain, by whom her
sight was restored.
Her godparents, with whom she trav-
eled all over the world, managed to
gather up about 500 900 of the old es-
tate, which was turned over to her at
the time she married Captain Henry S.
Bunker at Olympia, Wash, when she
was barely 16 years of age. They sepa-
rated after three years and four months,
when be had secured and squandered
much of her fortune.
Gla ,,,A -
pairs of twins, and five of these chill
dren are still living two in Cuba and
the others in Madrid, with friends.
Bunker died after she had secured d.
vorce from him. Then she went to Cuba,
but SOON returned to America again,
after having visited Honolulu a few
weeks.
When she drifted back to the States,
she lived for some time in Boston and
then in New York, thence coming to
Toledo, where she met and married
William NJ Diamond, who, she says,
secured and hypothecsted many of her
jewels.
1t is known that a casket worth $10,-
900 is in one of the pawnshops of the
city. Diamond was arrested on the
charge of theft and was also accused of
to poison his wife. Seour-
ing straw bail, he left the country after
having secured, it is said by the police
officials, large sum ON the jewel casket
belonging to his wife.
She has been engaged for some time
past in teaching oriental EN- broidery and
the languages She was very much
frightened short time ago when two
well dressed, refined young Spaniards
came to Toledo, and remained in hiding
until they were gone. 1t is believed that
a powerful influence is back of the pros
ecution in this case.
Her fathers name was Fernandzia
and her mother was Maximilian's legit-
innate daughter. The family, which was
of Moorish-Spanish lineage,
was banished for political reasons. She
is now but 23 years old.-Toledo Cor.
Boston journal.