New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-30
HEIR TO THRONE SHE SAYS
Dutch Girls, Dispossessed. Tel In
credible Tale.

Al Incredible and absurd story was told last
night oy TWO Young Dutch women who we've elected
from their rooms. a. No 5ss Fourth-ave-. they say
for 10 reason whatever. The girls who say they
are Pslatia and Oceanic Fischer. twenty-five and
nineteen years cd. declare that their father was az
ore time head q the Dutch armies and that in
same rather peculiar way he was hei- 20 the
throne and vas put o1t q the way 70 make room
for the present incumbent
~ the Tenderloiu station = was learned that the
proprietor Of the house. Mrs. Grove. had com
planned that ne girls were ccming into TIE house
every uigat loaded down with bundles. she sad
she did not want them in the house any longer.
ana that they were elected On dlspcssss way
rant
THe Young women we're TUNED out Of their rooms
shortly before midnight Tasy say they have been
in this ccuntry for about five months. and have
been STAYING AZ the house from which they were
elected several days. LATE IN the evening, they
say some strange man came in and summary
Dumped their trunks into the street where they
sriu were early his morning. Then the girls were
tCrlo-uly sitting on -cz trunks. and the chances
seemed go95 that they Mould h there al night
Thsv say they have money. and axe willing 70 pay
tor their room, and can think Of no reason why
they should b turned OUT
According 70 the story q Miss Fischer. who
speaks three OF four languages. ths trunks con-
tain lndisD --ab-e evidence that she is her the
tLrcne OF Holland. She says thai their father vas,
about Htteen years age head Of al the Dutch
armies, ana vas IN s-llvs command OF the forces
IT. llGla. They declare the present queen. Wi
hslulna, IS not the legal sovereign, ana that, as
there vas no other heir 70 the throne, their father,
o. virtue @ his ONCE as general, should have be-
coma kinE.
About a1tsen years ago the girI SAYS she and
her sister attended what they believed 70 be the
funeral OF their father, who was said 10 nave
died II india After the funeral they were put
II the guardianship Of priest Gn1 placed in
separate converts. after some tine tbs elder girl
says she learned that their father had left an
estate Of about $4,000. She mana ged escape
-rcn1 the convent ana with her sister. make her
WaT % England There she engaged two Dutch
lawyers 20 r5at her case in the courts and has
herself appeared before the highest Dutch court
70 claim uo- only her fathers property. but the
throne 4 TIE kingdom. Finally her ,awvs-s set
tied with The Crown. ard she and ncr sister re-
Ce-N ed S7.oH She saws that while in England she
learned thar her father Vas not dead. hut IN
csrcetated IN some Dutch prison. and that the
turersl they attended had been q mock ceremony.
since then she SAYS. she has spent her time trav-
cling, having visited almost al the countries CT
earth When shorJ Of funds they have made
money by u~essrnakIug. tho oh they Leve Done
nothing since they came 70 this country i've
months ago.
About month ago the same two vounE women
enjoyed . h-lsl prominence through their con-
ucCtou with - Oliver and the police courts
They weI@ az that time rcOming in lower L-Xi1g-
to1-ave-- and had some trouble with the land
lady. one DAY the last named went upstairs 10
collect She says she was met with q revolvs-
and driven f-0m the room and downstairs. after
which the girls amused themselves Ly =looJllg
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