The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26
CoUN'ICLA|MEDASS0A .
BY PEASANT WOMAN.
The Famous Polish Case, Which.
Caused Sensation Two Years
Ago, is Revived.
BOY HEIR 10 ESTATES I
Alleges She Gave Him to Mid
for Childless Couple and
Wants Him Back.

BERLIN, March Is.
'rhe Kwllecki heir case. which was the
Illegal sensation OF Berlin fifteen months
ago has been rcopened In Poson..
In October, 1909. the Countess Isabella
l5Weslerska Kwileclti, belonging to a rich.
and arlstocratlc Polish family, was
charged with pretending to ilavc borne
a son over sstx years q 90, wfen she was u
I51 years old, and presenting him as the
| heir to an estate at yVroblewc, Province
Of Poscn consisting Of 10000 acres and
having yearly. rental roll of $1,000. Her
HUSBAND. was also charged With being an an
ncccssory5to the crime. One midwife and
two women servants were, also placed IN
the box as accessories. f
Count n1isiislaw kwileckiA member of
the prusslans House.of Lords. and his
son. Count Hector 1Swilecki, q member
Of the Reichstag, contested, as next OF
kin, the legitimacy of the Countess son
about two years previous to her arrest
in the proceedings in October 't put after
a sensational trial at Posen she was &c.
Quilted. Tho prosecuting attorney, how
ever, continued his investigati tom He OBJ a
tanned fresh testimony through police
examination Of a woman who bore q
child atathe time the son Of the Countess
was said TO have been born and the rea s r
rest Of the Countess followed *
Alleged Son Of Peasant.
$HI \ was alleged that the boy was the
son 81 4 Polish peasant, but this both
Countess and Count indignantly denied
The Countess pleaded mot guilty and
sweeplngly denied all completely IN any
criminal act 4 but was frequently una bic
u give satisfactory plantations OF many
s Ell circumstances. and some dam
aging fncts Swero brought out. It was
shown that when the Countess came to
Berlin to await her announcement she.
said she did sokbecausc she could get be II
ter me deal d tcntion here, but she did
not call in d physician and employed an
obscure midwife. The Countess It was
also shown by he testimony, intended go-J5
ing abroad for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and
only deslsted from doing SO upon rep re-
ssntations being made to her that the
!collatera heirs Of the estate would stls-3
pect her. Es
Countess refused to see the family p si-E
clan when he came from Posen to Berlin
IN order to attend her.
When the girl alleged to be the child'sE
mother was questioned In court, she adj
mtted giving her. child tosn midwife The
witness was shown photographs of six
children, and was asked II she recognized
her own child. She collected the right one
from its resem blnncc3to her older son. p
s4 The midwife, Frau o. oWski, &who had
testified IN the defendant IS favor at the;
previous trial In Posen,s admitted that she
( had perjured herself at Posen. The witt
ness said her former testimony was In
5fiuenceds by pity for the Countess Isa-
1las i,y no, la fn
whom she wanted to save he estate and
title.
An Exciting Incident.
One ,of the exciting incidents Of the
trial In October was the production In
court of tho boy and his alleged brother,
both being dressed like. # g5
81 The jurors gathered about the boys.
but the impression made was ind decisive.
Some OF the experts said they saw a
little Count and the eldest boy OF the
peasant girl. while others claimed there
was family mblunce between the
younger boy and the Countess.
An Austrian captain,8 Won Ziegler, tes-
titled that the peasant girl had borne him
two children, the second in December,
1896. Tho girl reported to him that she:
had given this child to a childless couple.
Witnesses from Wroblewe, some OF
the reported birth of the little Count, said
they were convinced that no fraud had
been perpetrated. 64iiss99s n As
Tho trial continued until November 25,)
when the Countess was acquitted. Race
feeling was a notable feature of the trial,
as the SOC, 900 Poles resident In BerlinneYer:
forget an opportunity to protest againstI
Prusslan justice. The authorities, expect
ing riotlng should the result be ascon-i
yIction filled tho rs court and adjacent
squares with police. The announcement
of the verdict turned tho prospective riot.
ers5 into q cheering, joyful crowd. ls
Another Suit Now.
4. Frau Meyer, the wife Of a railway
pointsman at Cracow.8 who was the al
legged mother Of the disputed heir. has
now brought an action against tho Count,
and Countess to claim the boy. She has
lost a previous similar action, but dee
clares that she has now obtained adds
tonal gproof$tha the boy is really her
own child. II ~.
Sultan at a Circus.
ltysr n i, no C,,1t,