The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-16

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/. MRS. ANNA HoLDoBLER, al
: Who Says She Is the Daughter Of 8
8 Prince of India. !; |
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sewed about her waist when, a child |
and now embedded in her flesh, Mrs. !
Anna Holdobler of this place, daugh- |
ter Of prince Of India, relies to prove
dollars in the Bank of England
Last week she left for England and
Germany to prove her right to the
money, but so strange is her tale that
the authorities Of Chicago, Ignorant of
the sign of nobility implanted in her
very body, sent her to the hospital for
the insane at Dunning, III.
Robbed Of royal father and mother
when a child, left alone by the assas-
sination Of her guardian and theft of a
fortune in Jewels belonging to her
house, drifting to Germany, alone and
disheartened, she consented to marry
gardener and come to America. And
now a relentlessly cruel fate has put
her and her husband in madmen g cells
because she determined to insist upon
her right to her estate.
Daughter Of a Prince.
| For fifteen years Mrs. Holdobler has
sought to prove to consuls of Germany
and EnglaHd that she is in fact Mott
Singh. It was to present her claims to
the authorities at Washington that she
left for the east last week, only to be
| intercepted at Chicago and sent to Dun
ming with her husband after hAsty
examination.
Before going east Mrs. Holdobler
was examined by Sioux City, physi..
| al, hoo1 Of
the German Lutheran hospital, who de-
clared that she was not insane, and
/ told of making an examination of the
woman IS abdomen, and taking photo
graphs Of the emblem, the string of
pearls, sewed thru her flesh when a
child, which proclaims her the tright It
heir Of the house Of Guielt- Singh. Her
her to cut six Of the ten pearls from
her flesh, that she might not starve.
The scars and the four large remaining
pearls tell conclusively that she indeed
wore a string Of Jewels around her
waist which any queen would be proud
to wear around her neck.
Appear at Nebraska.
/ Joseph and Anna Holdobler came to
Wakefield, Neb., four years ago and
rented small farm near here. The
man was gardener and the woman
seemed to be Of high birth. Neighbors
remarked about her beauty, for she was
/ tall and slender, with crisp black hair,
eyes which were soft one moment and
1 glistened like black opals the next,
olive complexion, white, well-shaped
hands, Her husband seemed Of low
birth, speaking only ordinary German
and being uneducated.
Two years after they arrived in this
city, letter came from the British
consul at Washington Mrs. Holdoble1
consulted attorneys at Wakefield and
Sioux City,. and told them she had a
fortune in the Bank of England, but
could not establish her identity. The
German consul in England had beer
working to assist her and had traced
her, to the farm near Wakefield. He
wanted additional evidence From thai
day the woman has consulted doctors
and lawyers, secured affidavit after af
4 fdavit and forwarded them to foreign
consuls, and had photographs taken o1
the pearls and scars at her waist line
!, the strongest evidence Of her heritage
The Woman's Story.
According to the woman, who tell
: her story in the best of high German
: taught her by her governess, she wa
' born In Rampur, India, in 1870. He
! father had reigned in Raiputana unit
! after the Indian mutiny in 1857, whel
he moved to Rampur and occupied on
of-the native palaces with which tn
! great peninsula is dotted There as
! little child she knew all the luxury o
= the land of wealth.
:, e But a pail hung over the house O
? Gujelt- Singh. India was and is toda.
y the cradle of two Of the most wide
} spread religions OF. humanity, Brat
minism and Buddhism. The mother O
little Mott Pearl was Of high Germa
descent, and this was the cause O
the hatred for the white woman whic
: : princes around the court at Raiputan
e e nurtured assiduously. When the chill
- was but few wears of age, her fathe
:: died mysteriously There was not
! wound on his body, and he was neve
bedrldden. 1t was typical India
\ death, and he was the victim Of relis
: ious fervor.
Then the mother lived alone in th
N palace, with one German woman, Louis
le Mackrodt, who became the guardian c
le little Mott Pearl, for within a for
lie night after the death Of the prince
rs Gulelt-Singh, the mother died in tt
lie same mysterious manner.
Is Orphaned Girl a Fugitive.
,e Fearing for her life and that of Il
d. little princess, the German .woma
al dOu1SO, LOOh IdOtl SdIl 10 OdlCuCC
r. and with them she carried all tt
q Jewels she could find in the palac
Their new home was not free fro
peril. Several times relatives Of IL
y great house which had ruled in Ra
rs putana sought to gain possession
a. =; the princess and asked the English o
~ icers to help them. Then the Germs
I'd woman took Mott and fled to Bomba
q; There the girl grew to an age whit
ID is considered womanhood in Indi
III With the money derived from the sa
Of Of Jewels, the princess was educate
IS, in the best private schools Of Bomba
no There she learned German and Fren,
is and several of the two hundred di
lects spoken in India.
But q dark day was coming for lit
Mott Pearl. One morning she went
no the apartment of Lady Louise, only
y. find her face as white as the marh
Il; statue of the empress Of India, u
z; same strange Indian death that ha