Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1903-08-06
CRIMINALS OF TITLE.
Princes and Princesses Are Punished
for Their Crimes.
Some Recent Instances of Depravlty
Among the German Nobility and
the Penalties Imposed
Upon Them.

title can no longer commit crime with
! shockingjy inadequate. The case of
Prince Prosper Won Arenberg is an ex-
ample of how far favoritism OF this
kind can go, says the Chicago Trib-
une.
The prince was in command of q
German southwest African district,
and had as his confidential servant
a half-breed named Keen The man
Glanced to arouse the princes dis
Measure, so his master made him
drunk on brandy, and then, ma nacling
him, drew him up by a cord to the cell
ing and practiced upon him tortures
too dreadful to mention.
At last he cut the moaning victim
down, and, turning him out of the
house, ordered the sentry to shoot
him. The sentry fired in the air, and
then, when the prince repeated the
ortaer, shot at Keen and wounded him
| in the leg The titled torturer, mad
with fury, pulled out revolver and
shot Keen through the body and again
through the head, AS the man still
showed signs of life, be seized ram
rod and forced it through the last
wound into the mans brain. The
prince was tried by courtma artial and
sentenced to three and a half years
detention in fortress! Detention in
a fortress is a sort of tirst-class i'm
prisonment, and is actually welcomed
by many officers as relief from the
severity OF their duties. Prince Won
Arenberg is member Of one Of the
greatest families in Germany, one of
which the members are entitled to
marry into the reigning family.
In the winter Of last year a most
daring robbery took place in the open
street at Bat0um in broad daylight.
The cashier Of the Caspian Black Sea
Naphtha company was carrying the
sum OF $1,000 from his Office to bank,
accompa nied by L armed guard. Sud
denly man rushed out from side
street, sta bbed the guard, seized the
bag of money from the cashier and ran
Of with it. Two policemen gave
chase; the man turned and shot them
both and got clean away.
This daring and successful rObber
was Prince Alexander Lordkipinadse,
the author of a series of crimes ex-
ceiling those petrated by even the
worst of the old time western Ameri-
can desperadOes. He was at the head
| of widespread organization of ban
dts. whose headquarters were in the
| Caucus mountains, and whose depre-
| dations extended to BatoUm, Iitlis and
BakL. a few months agu-t0 be exact,
in March 1901-the head of the band
was caught, and with his two lieuten-
ants, Prince Valerian and Prince Elias
Luluhidse, put on trial. The case lasted
fortnight and there were proved
against them no fewer than 100 muir
ders, besides numerous cases Of arson
and almost innumerable rObberies
All three met a richly deserved ia tie on
the gallows.
Berlin recently enjoyed a sensa-
ton in high life. Countess Won
Schlcben was arrested on a charge
of setting fire to her summer
residence in Steglitz, one Of the
suburbs of the German capital
Bail vas refused and the lady immured
in prison. TIE life st ory Of this wom-
an is distinctly interesting. Twenty
wears ago she was plain Mary Hertog,
flower seller in one of the principal
streets of Berlin. Her business did so
we'll that SHE made fortune and bios
sOmed out as pa trOnese OF charities
and editress Of woman's periodical.
Then she married Count von Schlieben,
a man considerably younger than her
self, and the pair went to live at Steg
ltz in the villa which has now been
burnt down. This house, which the
countess built with her own money, is
the one she is accused Of burning.
Austria has her titled criminals. In
April, 1900, a landed proprietor, Count
Kersch hendnrff, was arrested for COM
plicity in an extensive series of for
geres in TraDsylvanaa. With him
were implicated an ex-district prefect,
two lawyers, several priests and other
persons of good standing. The notes
which were most cleverly forged, were
issued to a value of over 10000 be-
fore the fraud was discovered. An
other Austrian noble1nan who has re-
Gently got into trouble is Count Hans
Arr, who has been deprived of his rank
and sentenced to two months impris-
onment with hard labor for commit
ting thefts in . dentists waiting room
al Vienna
The case which has created most
popular interest Of any in which titled
criminals have been concerned is that
of Princess Radziwill. The case arose
out of the action brought hv third
party against the late C""l l.hoIes
and Princess 5 Catherine ReG.ivil to OBJ
tain sentence in cCnrecti"n with GER
tain Dror.i.~nrN notes tr'@wn ty the