The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-09
NOBLEMEN IN JAIL.
Members of the English Nobility
Who Are In Prison Cells.
From the New York World.


From the New York World.
English jails at present shelter fully a
score of titled criminals.
And the recent criminal history of Great
Britain shows that duchesses, earls, even
relatives of His Majesty the King. have
suffered ignominious penalties at the
hands of the law.
Doubtless most Americans fancy that
the possession of a title guarantees GER
tain immunity as far s the laws framed
to protest society are concerned; that a
duke may steal and lord may perjure,
yet continue to bask in the radiance of
his own coronet.
But this Is true only to a limited extent,
as the following instances show.
Lady Cunning, widow of Sir Henry Gun
ming, and granddaughter of the second
Lord Churchill, is serving term of sew
eral years penal servitude for having
forged the name of her father to notes
on which she raised money from London
discounters and tradesmen. These forger-
les extended over number of years. and
were considered especially objectionable
from the fact that her ladyship was driv-
en- to commit them not from her reduced
circumstances, but from Indebtedness
caused by betting on the races.
Mrs. Osborne, wife of Capt Osborne,
of a crack cavalry regiment belonged to
the eristocratic house of Elliott. But Mrs.
Osborne was hard up. Therefore, while
visiting her dearest friend Mrs. Mar
greave, at the latters castle. she purloin-
ed costly pearl necklace which she later
sold in London, and was sentenced to i'm
prisonment with hard labor for obtaining
goods under false pretenses
The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland.
presuming too greatly on the latitude al
lowed her rank destroyed in the presence
of the court a document that would have
insured her defeat in a suit she was con-
Quoting. For this she was condemned to
six months Imprisonment.
The Count and Countess Leiningen, dis
tant cousins Of the King, are neither OF
them great credit to their royal con-
nections For his many misdeeds the
Count is confined in an English peniten-
tiary, while the Countess is serving time
in Vienna jail as punishment for forg-
cry, blackmail and swindAng.
Still greater degradation has been un-
dergone by the Warehouses of Donegal
who has time and egain been sent to Jail
generally for brief periods, following hel
arrest in London for drunkenness and dis.
orderly conduct.
Still another connection of the English
royal house, the Countess Waldeck, /.
now undergoing punishment for forgery
| and perjury under circumstances thai
had no extenuating features. No amount
of royal influence could save her from
| Jail.
But England does not enjoy a monopoly
| of Gagged mobiles.
Italy has two convict dukes, chiefs o
| the famous old Sicilian house of Villa
rosa, who murdered in particular brut,
! fashion a Young INFANTRY lieutenant WhC
was betrothed to their sister the Princes!
! Catarna.
The murderer-dukes are confined in thu
great penitentiary of Maddalena, near Ma
! pies, which also shelters the Prince Car
acdiola, sentenced 40 ten years hard labo
| for the murder of his wife. This nobl'
| prisoner was once deserted by his beau
! tiful wife. AS an effectual revenge h,
! poisoned her with arsenic. In considera
J ton of his princely name the murdere
escaped with ten-years' term.