The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-16

for Troabie-His Marvellous Escapes
 His Record a. a Dueltst and His Love of Bread and Sugar.
 Munstery, who died in a Chicago hos pital week ago. left wife and seven children in Jersey City, He was born in Baltimore in 1874. His only dessert for eighty years was bread and sugar
 With these few routine obituary re- marks all the tame things that can be said about General Munstery have heen said. The rest of the story ot his lie, as he used to tell, it, is story of blood, of wars, duels, revolutions, court ln- trigues, flirtationS with queens, royal genealogies and buried gold. The gen. eral lost the diagrams which showed where the gold was buried and that IS why he died in poverty.
 The excitement in the generals fami- ly really began several years before he was, born, when his grandmother, So- phia Ankerstrom, and the rest of the 4dlI1liy WClC uilNCii ce'e ci h'''NN cause Sophia's first cousin killed Gus taf III. at masquerade ball. The An kersfroms went to Prussia, where So- phia, a famous Swedish beauty, became the morganatic wife of King F'rederlck William IT., according to the papers or { the late General Munstery, who always boasted of his Hohenzollern blood So- phia's daughter by the king was Gene ral Munstery's mother, His father was a Danish nobleman whose Irish ances- tors had fled from Ireland after the Battle of the Boyne. The name before the flight was Munster. The father was deprived of his place at the Danish court because of duel and was made governor of Santa Cruz. He left in lSl2 and with his wife came to the Unlted States. Two years later the boy Thomas was born in Baltimore. When he was six years old the family went to Denmark From this point General \ Munstery had his own story of his life. His story, hay in the first chapter, began with bloodstain on his fathers nightshirt. There was a family TOW. The father and mother separated. lie never knew what became of his father, but he remembered him as he stood Tn the house sword in hand and with the blood on his nightshirt. The boy ana his mother were put in dungeon for something and fed on bread and sugar That's how the general acquired the dessert habit, which lasted all his life, < When they were released from the dun~ geon mother and son went to Copenha- gen.
 At the age of fifteen Thomas Nuns tery really began his own life ot adVen- ture. He went into the Danish navy and served for three years. While m port at Rio de Janeiro he killed his first man. negro who had insulted him.
 After his sea service he went to Stockholm, where he became the pupil of Dr. Linge, the inventor of the Swe- dish system of massage. Under Linge's instruction he became an expert wordsman and a champion strong man. He went to St. Petersburg, when he was. twenty-two years old as fencing master and commander of the body guard of the Grand Duke Con stantine He fought all corners there, including the wild men from beyond the frontier, for the amusement of the court. and a palace and treasure were given to him.
 The boy from Baltimore was getting along ih the world famously when he unfortunately consented to help his chum, Ivan Orloff, elope with lady of the court. He was exiIed for that and went back to Copenhagen without a ruble. But he gambled as well as he fought. and soon made enough of a fortune to go to Berlin and claim com mission in the army on account Of his Hohenzollern blood. The story of his parentage was not relished at court, so he was put in prison at Spandau. He never knew how he got out of the scrape, but thought that it was because his mother pleaded for him.
 His first adventure after getting out of jail was to fall in love with a woman whom another man loved. The other man was Charles Hansen, Danish mo- bleman. They fought and Hansen was { killed. Munstery forgot the woman, hurried to this country and got into the United States navy. He saw some ser vice and was then put in the naval hos pital at Portsmouth, N. H., for repairs.
 That tanned him for a while and he tried to sell cigars in Philadelphia, but he smoked more than he sold and his swords and guns were getting rusty He was hungry for a fight and hurried off to Nicaragua where'he got several He served there in several revolutions but could never remember on which side he fought. Nor could he remem- ber the number of wounds or the num- Der of men he killed in handto-hand combat They were numerous.
 From Nicaragua he went to Cuba with Narciso Lopez, thence to the Uni ted States of Colombia, where he fought for the dictator Jose Maria Mello. To save his neck he escaped back to Co penhagen, where he happened to be ii the nick of time to serve the Spanish charge d-affaires in an affair of honor The Spaniard sent him to Madrid where he fought for the entertainment of royalty and became court favorite with much gold. The government sent him to Cuba to teach the soldiers there how to use their swords and bayonets He landed at Puerto Principe just ir time to get into game of monte at the palace. It was a feast day. Munstery lost all of his Spanish gold on queen That was the seventh fortune he had lost.
 He had love affairs and duels in Cuba of course, but was finally disabled b4