Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-18
CRIMINALS OF TITLE.
Princes and Princesses Are Punished
 for Their Crimes.
Some Recent Instances of Deprnvity Among the German Nobility and the Penalties Imposed
 Upon Them.

whatever a man S rank, ne cdnuOb escape the penalties of the law if he breaks it. Abroad, though man of title can no longer commit crime with impunity, yet punishment ds too often shockingly inadequate. The case of Prince Prosper von Arenberg is an ex- ample of how far favoritism of this kind can go, says the Chieago Trib- une. ;.
 The prince was in command of German southwest African district, and had as his confidential servant a half-breed named Keen. The man chanced to arouse the princes dis pleasure, so his master made him drunk on brandy and then, manacling him, drew him up by @ cord to the ce1I- 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, anu then, when the prince repeated the order, shot at Keen and wounded him in the leg. The titled torturer, mad with fury, pulled out revolver ana shot Keen through the body and again through the head. AS the man stlll showed signs of life, he seized ram- rod and forced it through the, last wound into the mans brain. The prince was tried by court-martial and sentenced to three and a half years detention in fortress! Detention 1n 1 fortress is sort of first-class inn | prisonmerat. and Is actually welcomed by many officers as 8 relief from the severity of their duties. Prince von l Arenberg is member of one of the greatest families in Germany, one Of | which the members are entitled to marry into the weighing family.
 In the winter of last year a most daring robbery took place in the open street at Batoum in broad daylight. 1 The cashier of the Caspian Black Sea l Naphtha company was carrying the sum of ST ,ooo from his office to a bank, accompanied by an armed guard Sud- denly man rushed out from sade 1 street, stabbed the guard, seized the bag of money from the cashier and rc n off with 1t. Two policemen gave chase; the man turned and shot them both and got clean away.
 1 This daring and successful robber was Prince Alexander Lordkipinadse, | the author of series of crimes ex- ceiling those perpetrated by even the [ worst of the old time western Ameri- can desperadoes. He was at the head 1 of a widespread orga anization of ban dits, whose headquarters were in the | Caucus mountains, and whose depre- | 4~o Do +nS, Y1a Balxu. A few months ago-to be exact, in March, 1o01-the head of the band was caught. and with his two lieuten- ants. Prince Valerian and Prince Elias l Lulukidse, put on trial. The case lasted a fortnight and there were proved against them no fewer than 100 mur- ders, besides numerous eases of arson and almost innumerable robberies. All three met richly deserved fate on the gallows.
 Berlin recently enjoyed & sensa- l ton in high life. Countess von Schheben was arrested on a charge of setting fire to her summ CT residence in Steglitz, one of the suburbs of the German capital. Bail was refused and the lady immured in prison. The life story of this wom- an is distinctly interesting. Twenty years 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 blos- somed out as patronesS of charities and editress of woman's periodical. Then she married Count von Schlieben, man considerably younger than her. self, and the pair went to live at Steg- litz 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. Tn April, 1900, landed proprietor, Count Kerschendprff, was arrested for com plicity in an extensive series of for geries in Transy ylyanda. 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 s 10000 be fore the fraud was discovered. An.
 other Austrian nobleman who has re
 gently got into trouble is Count Hans
 Arg, who has been deprived of his rank and sentenced to two months impris.
 onment with hard labor for commit ting thefts in dentist's 8 waiting room
 at 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 by thir6 \ party against the late Cecil Rhodes
 and Princess Catherine Radziwill to ob tain sentence in connection with cer
 tain promissory notes drawn by tho
 princess and purporting to be indorseG
 by MT. Rhodes. MT. Rhodes denied that the signatures were his, and il the result the princesswas found guilty of forgery and sentenced to term 0.
 imprisonment. Science Guards Antiquity.
 Tn consequence of the construction
 of the great Assouan dam on the Nile < 600 miles above Cairo, the famous l seI ~f