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

PREPARING THE NECK FOR STRETCHING.

came into three substantial legacles,
amounting altogether to 81, 500 900, but
these failed to save them from ruin.
Counting capital and interest, the
princess and her husband spent SS00O,-
600 within five years, and when they
had exhausted all their means, they be-
gan TO borrow money from others. The
style in which they had lived enabled
them 10 do this with facility, for no
one not even the shrewdest OF money
lenders, had the least Idea that they
had come to the end Of their resources
II was thought that some temporary
financial difficulty had occurred, and
funds for them were forthcoming In
plenty at exorbitant rates OF interest.
This went on for about two years, I'M
I'll at last II came to be whispered about
that the Princess and Baron Pagen-
hardt had lost their fortune. lnme-
diately there was a panic among their
creditors, who began to grow Emporium
ate in their demands for payment.
HER SECOND DIVORCE.
At the first signs of trouble violent
quarrcls commenced between Princess
Alexandra and her husband, each re-
preaching the other as the cause of
their common misfortunes. Seven
years after her second marriage, when
she was just so years old, the princess
became for second time Divorce.
That was eighteen years ago. Since
then her life has been one long strug-
gle against impending ruin and utter
disgrace.
Princess Alexandra sold her posses
sions in Bavaria in the Tyroi, as well
as her residences In Berlin and on the
Riviera and embarked on various tin-
xts2t no 40
| She understood nothing of finance, 80
| that her speculations were unsuccessful
| and dragged her still more into debt.
| Finding speculation Improbable she
| went on the turf, and sought to restore
her fortunes by bold gambling on all
| the fashionable racecourses of Europe.
Betting, however proved to be as dis
| astrous as her other financial specula-
| lions, and more debts We're added to
| the princess already appalling ac-
| counts. After these failures, Princess
/ Alexandra lived from hand to mouth
| for couple of years, borrowing money
in small sums OF old acquaintance, and
| contriving TO get along with the help
OF all kinds Of queer shifts, Her cred
| itors, meanwhile, were receiving neither
| interest nor capital In return, and some
| of them resolved to take an extreme
step, which the German law renders
possible.
STREET FIGHT WITH A BAILIFF.
one afternoon as the princess was
walking down one of the streets OF
Stuttgart, she was halted by the public
baiiiff, who produced II warrant au-
thorlzing him to seize for the benefit OF
creditors any portable property which
she was carrying on her person. Ac-
cordingly, the princess was held up
in the street while the balliff and his
assistants searched her pockets and
person. taking possession of her watch
of several articles of jewelry, of her
purse containing s., and of several
smaller articles. She resisted, with the
result that there was n row In the
street, ending in something like a free
fight between the princess and the bail
ifs.
This affair caused such a scandal
that Princess AleXandras relatives
who previously had washed their hands
of her, felt bound to interfere to pre-