Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-21
PRINCESS LOUISE OF CoBURG.


and princess to live together again. but
to agree to an amicable separation
and satisfactory agreement regard
ing property. The lawyers agreed to
take the matter under consideration
and asked for an intermission for the
prince asked for an absolute divorce in
order to secure a complete separation
of the couple.
During the recess the lawyers agreed
to an arrangement on the following
basis: The prince to continue the pay
ment to the princess of yearly al
lowance of $4,000 and also to pay to
she abandon all further claims against
the prince, and that after the divorce
she adopt the name and title of Louise,
princess of Belgium.
After these terms were laid before
the court another recess was taken in
order that the princess might be tele-
graphed for her consent to the ar
rangement
Her attorney is DR.. Visontai, prom
inent member Of the Hungarian parlia-
ment. He says:
IF my client has committed any in
discretions she was driven to such acts
by the corrupt atmosphere of the Aus
trian court. | intend in the trial to re-
veal the ruthlessly immoral influences
directed against her when she went to
Vienna as young wife, l intend to
call the king of England, the Austrian
emperor and many other royalties and
grand dukes as witnesses"
The Princess Louise was one of the
most beautiful girls in the reigning
houses of Europe when at the age of
seventeen she was married to Prince
Philip, grandson of Louis Philippe.
Almost from her wedding day she was
forced to witness shameless conduct
on the part of her husband, and she
beseeched her mother to persuade King
Leopold to allow her to obtain a di-
vorce.
Louise had been sad and pious, but
soon she became the gayest woman in
Europe She appeared publicly in re-
markable toilets. She sought the COM
Vi lltI nuSDduu
associates, whom she had once abhor-
red. She drew to herself Prince Phil
| ips adiutant and friend. Count Malta
chich, and in wild moment the two
| eloped.
The princess and the count defied
! threats and warnings from Emperor
Francis Joseph and Leopold. Finally
! tho an1fnt Caizn1 charcoal with for
gerry and thrown into Jail The prin-
cess was placed in a sanitarium, Philip
declaring her insane and obtaining a
verdict from physicians to that effect.
| Prince Philip challenged Count Mat
tachich, and the two met in a riding
academy in Vienna in 1898. They ex-
changed four pistol shots, without eff
feet, and then took swords. The prince
was wounded in the first sally. The al
legation of forgery against the count
was baseless, and he was finally vindi-
Gated and freed, but the princess was
kept in strict confinement.
Count Mattachich never gave up his
purpose of securing the release of the
princess. and the opportunity came in
August of last year. She was then
confined in private madhouse at Bad
Elster, in Saxony.
With the aid of a devoted woman
friend, Fraulein Won Dabauer, Louise's
lady of honor in happier days, who re.
manned loyal to her throughout, Count
Mattachich effected the release of the
princess. They fed from Austria. The
sanity of the princess was established
Then Philip at last determined upon a
divorce, and the princess filed a coun
ter suit.