Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-21

ing places, spending the winters in
Italy.
This semi-respectable life proved too
tedious for the gay princess, who
broke out into her old ways about two
years ago. Having contrived to obtain
a substantial loan-it is not difficult
for princesses to borrow money In
Europe-she went back to the race
courses and recommended gambling In
the most reckless style. Losing money
I'm this way, she tried financial specu-
lations again, and once more she lost
all that she had rlsked and contracted
bigger debts in addition Her next
move was TO Monte Carlo, whore her
losses continued.
BY this time her relatives, hearing
that she had resumed her old practlses,
cut off her allowance, reducing her to
restitution At the beginning Of this
year Princess Alexandra turned up at
Stuttgart i'm shabby attire and per-
suaded member of the lsenburg fam
lily to lend her enough money to start
hotel on the banks of Lake Con-
stance. The hotel was opened on
April 10. and the fact that the man
ageress was princess was advertised
extensively.
on Aug. Is II was announced by the
courts of Stuttgart that the debts Of
the Princess Alexandra of Isenburg
amounted to sl50O0,000, and that, so
far as the creditors could ascertain,
there was absolutely no seizable prop
erty to compensate them for their
heavy losses. II was alleged that one
usurer had committed suicide when he
had discovered that he had lent money
on bad security, and other sad stories
of the distress caused by the princess
failure to pay her dues We're related.
Subsequently warrant was issued au-
thorizing the arrest of Princess Alex
andra on a charge of obtaining money
by false pretenses and of contracting
debts while knowing that she had no
chance of repaylng them.
Princess Alexandra, descendant Of
the famous knight OF the tenth CEN
fury, Is now reduced to keeping a lodg
ing house at a continental watering
place. She Is endeavoring 10 earn a
living by honest means and hopes to
| be able to reform her ways. She does
much of the housework herself, and
spares no effort TO make the estab-
| lishment n success,
Although his rank Is not so high as
| that OF the princess, there are striking
| points OF resemblance to her story in
| the career OF Baron Franz Josef Won
| Lerchenfeld, who was sentenced in
Vienna few days ago 10 10 months
| Imprisonment and loss OF his title for
| contracting debts which he knew he
| couldn't pay, There is no doubt about
| the mans pedigree. He comes from
| one OF the proudest OF old Bavarian
| families he Ia a godson OF Emperor
| Francis Joseph, and his mother was n
| playmate OF the murdered Empress
| Elizabeth lie inherited goodly for
| tune, and lived for a time in the palace
| OF the Arohduke Ludwig Victor, try
| ing TO keep the pace set by the average
! Austrian archduke-the swiftest pace
| I'm all Europe. After wasting all OF his
| fortune and throwing all that his arls-
| tocratio friends would lend, and
squeezing all he could out OF the
| money lenders, he reached the point
where he was willing TO fraternize with
| hotel porter for the sake OF a dollar
loan. II was stated at his trial that
he had inyelgled $4,000 out OF poor
folk on the strength OF his title,
GEORGE WEISS.