The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-07
a PRINCESS PROTESTED NOTES.
Crown Princess stephanie's Indorse-
ment Forged ON Princess Louise's
Promises To Pay.

From the New York sun.
A settlement satisfactory to the Princess
Louise of Saxe-Coburgs creditors has been
made az Vienna and an proceedings in
the civil and criminal courts have been
put an end to. The nominal value of the
notes alleged TO bear forged signatures
was $4,000 gulden, or nearly $4,000 but
as they were money lenders notes, and
court influence was brought to bear in
hushing the matter up, the sum paid in
settlement was probably much smaller.
Strangely enough the person who repre-
scented the princess In the transaction was
her wronged husband, Prince Philip OF
SaXe-Coburg, her father, the King of the
Belgians, having refused to interfere In
any way.
The story of these notes, as told in the
Berlin Borsen-Courier, on what it asserts
to be high authority, is as follows In June
a year ago outstanding notes of the
princess to the amount of 10000 gulden
fell due, and her creditors presented them
for payment. Their dealings had never
been with the princess personally, but
always with certain lieutenant, who pro-
fessed TO represent her the Lieut.. Nal
tacie, with whom she eloped. On this oc-
casbon he asked the creditors for an cX-
tension of time and for a further loan
OF 215,0G0 gulden. They held back, but
offered to lend the money if all the paper
was indoTsed by the Emperor of Austria
or the King Of Belgium, Later they agreed
to accept TIE Endorsement of the Crown
Princess Stephanie instead Notes with
her Endorsement and bearing a high rate
of interest were thereupon given to them.
One of the money lenders happened TO
look INTO a shop window one day, and
saw there a picture of the crown princess,
with her signature underneath. 1t struck
him that the handwriting was not the
same as that on his notes, and to clear
the matter up he made inquiries at the
crown princess palace Though not adj
m4ted 10 her presence, he obtained from
her an explicit declaration that she had
never signed a promissory note of any kind
in her life, lie went straight to the police
with his story, and the police Informed the
court chamberlain. In answer to his in
quires, the crown princess repeated her
assertion that she had never signed any
form Of note.
BY this time Princess Louise and her
over had reached a country seat near
Agram, In the course of their Journey and
the police set about separating them. The
lieutenant was decoyed to Agram on the
pretext of a medical examination being
needed for an application for sick leave
he had sent in. AS he was known to go
about armed, the police waited till he was
stripped before The doctor before arrest
ing him. Meanwhile the princess was car
ried off to Vienna on a special train, and
confined in a private asylum, where the
doctors are 10 watch her for six months
before deciding on the question of her
mental responsibility. There she declared
that she had never troubled herself with
business matters, that she knew nothing
Of Crown Princess Stephanie's in
dorsements, and that she did not under
stand why the crown princess should be
dragged into hers affairs, and, moreover
had never heard of the notes.
These statements gave promise of a live
ly lawsuit. Her family, however had
come to the conclusion thai the Princess
Louise had attained sufficient notoriety
and that the case must be stifled. On King
Leopo,d's fiat refusal to intervene, Prince
Philip the husband, reluctantly stepped
IN and has closed that phase Of the scan
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