The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06
PRINCESS ours RICO.
Dc Chimay Deserts the Gypsy, II is
Said. in Milan.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
London, Jan 2S-A Vienna dispatch to
the Daily Mail says that a telegram just
Princess de Chimay, formerly Miss Clara
Ward Of Detroit and Janos Rigo, the
Hungarian gypsy musician who recently
eloped with her, have quareled VIC
lently.
The screams of rage from the Princess
de Chimay and the forcible language of
Rigo disturbed the residents at the hotel
where the two were stopping and they
complained to the landlord because of ;he
noise occasioned by these outbursts of pas
sion.
At the end of one of these quarrels the
Princess de Chimay packed her trunk and
quilted the hotel, leaving at once for Mon
te Carlo.
She paid her own bill, but left RIGGS
bill unsettled.
Rigo is said to be in an awkward posi-
ton since the departure of the princess,
for he is without funds and has no inn
mediate prospects of securing employ
| ment.
Clara Ward of Detroit was married to
Joseph Marie A2atole Ellie de Riquel,
Prince de Caraman, and old enough to be
her father at the papal nunciature in
Paris, on May 90 1890. The wedding was
as splendid as great wealth on the wifes
side and a brilliant family connection, eX-
tending throughout continental Europe, on
the husbands could make it,
1t was the browning of the hopes of
worldly, scheming, ambitious woman
who had planned to make her daugh-
ters great beauty and her fortune step
ping stones to a footing in the best, and
the worst, society Of the continent.
Stories, sad of one so young and seem
ingly so innocent, were told of her before
her marriage. Her wedding to De Chi
may, himself notorious for his irregulari-
ties caused them all to be revived and
they were now openly talked of every
where.
But her polished, cold, precise husband
sat beside her apparently all ignorant
Her fragrant immortality was no less
notorious than was his seeming faith in
her
only once, when the attentions of the
King of Belgium became 50 pronounced
that it was impossible to ignore Them
did the prince object He then content
ed himself with a warning and matters
went on much as before.
Then the princess met Janos Rigo, a
gypsy fiddler, who had been engaged to
play at a series of afternoon concerts.
He was ignorant, ugly and boorish-
altogether different from the men she
knew and of whom she had wearied-and
she. became violently infatuated with him.
Last summer they eloped The World
printed the fact at the time, but no Eu-
ropean or English paper mentioned it I'M
til the prince began his suit for divorce
in November, and the princess and her
cypsy lover took the whole world into
their confidence by their brazen appear
ance together in the miserable gypsy en-
campment at Pagozd, RIGGS home.
World correspOndent visited the pair
at Stuhlweissenberg in December. rhe
princess dehantly declared that she was
very happy and that her only regrets
were for her children, whom she was not
allowed to see. The statement given by
her to the World correspondent is one
Of the most extraordinary ADMISSIONS OF
utter recklessness and determination to
repair the mistake of loveless marriage
at any cost ever printed.
The princess stood at a window in the
inn with her gypsy lover during the CORE
spondents visit, while a crowd of gyp-
sizes cheered below. She seemed to eli
JOY il.
While she insisted that she was happy
in spite of her defiance Of society there
were signs even then, of a parting soon
to come. They had several quarfels, each
more bitter than the last.
one day a member Of the Hungarian
congress, who had visited the princess be.
fore, sent her his photograph, which she
placed on her table. Rigo saw the pho
tograph aud tore it up. There was a vi
client scene and thereafter the gypsy was
haunted by fears that he was soon TO lose
her He was jealous of every man to
whom she spoke and lived In constant
dread of assassination.
The Princess de Chimay has $4,000 a
year; Rigo has nothing, not even an en-
gagement.