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MODERN .BORC|A
Poisoned Perfume Found in This
High Titled
RASCAL'S BOUQUET.

Prince Tschillndro, of Montenegro
Poisoned Women Guests While He
Entertained Them and Then
Robbed Them of Their
Valuable Jewels.
In Paris a criminal has Just review
ed the methods which have made Lu'
orezla Borgia's name infsmously i'm
mortal IN history and synonymous
with ingenious and wholesale poison
ing. The modern Lucrezia Borgia IL
. prince. He bears the title and name
of Prince Tschilindro Of Montenegro.
The Prince has just been arrested at
the Grand Hotel in Paris on charge
OF attempting to steal Z costly dia'
mond tiara from Q rich American Ho'
man, whose name Is withheld by the
Partisan police, according to their Gus
tom, but who is said to be Z Mrs. an.
mabel Gardiner, of Chicago.
He was calling on Mrs. Gardiner,
having accepted an invitation to din.
ner. A waiter entered Unexpectedly
and found him STOPPING over the wo
man, who was unconscious. The Prince
was in the very act of removing q
splendid diamond tiara from her head.
In her hand, which was
dropping into her lap. she held mag
nificent bouquet of white flowers,
which the Prince had evidently pre-
santed to hor. The waiter, q man Of
courage and determination, immedi-
ately summoned help and although
tho Prince peremptorily ordered him
to leave tho room, he refused to be
overawed.
When the police arrived one Of them
took up the bouquet from Mrs. Gardi.
ner's lap to examine 1t, and immed.
lately became dizzy, staggered, and
then fell unconscious. The bouquet
was carried away to the police station
on the end Of pole and the Prince
was locked up. 1t was msny hours
before Mrs. Gardiner recovered con.
sciousness, and then she stated that
after the Prince handed her the bou-
quet she lifted 1t up to smell it and
found that it had q very strange but
fascinating odor. Immediately after.
ward she felt terribly faint and then
she lost consciousness.
In the Princes rooms the police
found . largo number of small vials
containing liquids, and also rstorts,
test tubes, . psstile and mortar, .
glass foe. mask, and . considerable
quantity Of other chemical apparatus.
All this, together with the mysterious
bouquet, Is now In the hands Of scisn'
tiflc experts, employed by the police.
They have nut yet announced their
conclusions. but 1t is understood that
they have found many varieties of op.
istes, q large quantity Of prussic acid
and several chemicals, Of which they
cannot tell the nature, among the
Princes belongings. They are satisfied
that he Is q poisoner OF remarkable
skill and knowledge. Apparently he
was able to concoot volatile poisons,
which would DO mistaken for perfumes
when inhaled. Hs could compound
them 30 that they would produc:
death or merely unconsciousp esq.
They made another most eX1raor5i-
nary discovery among his possessions
They found large collection OF pho'
tographs OF women whose acquain.
tance he had enjoyed, among them
being many Americans, rich, hand
some and we'll known in American and
cosmopolitan society. One Of these
photographs was evidently that Of
Mrs. Halsey Corwin, the handsome
young woman whose alleged loss Of q
diamond stomaoher by theft at the
house OF one of her friends IN New
York excited the great metropolis for
several weeks. She is now staying in
Paris and it will surprise no one that
she should have been among the
Princes victims.
The police began thorough inves'
tigation OF the Princes past and found
that for moro than q year he had been
robbing women by means of his In
genious polsons. he frequented the
principal Summer and Winter resorts
Of Fronce, where there Is always 6
great gathering Of wealthy cosnopoli'
tans. He always took fine suite o1
FOOLS ct the principal hotel. Hs hae
9 very imposing appearance, tall
strsight, With thick black hair, waxet
mustache and imperial and an ais
haster complexion. There wss goor
deal of the grand ssigleur about hin
With a dash Of the barbarous noun
taineer.
He habitually sought the acquain
tance OF women possessing fine jewel
and the ms jority Of bis victims Wer'
Americans, who were fascinated b.
the idea of receiving attentions from
q Prince. he offered his victim
bouquet Of poisoned flowers, and whit
she was unconscious, robbed her O
her jewels. The police were only abl'
to conjecture what had occurred II
the ma sjority OF instance. The womel
had complained to hotel keepers o.
the loss of their jewels, but usual!
they were for obvious reasons disin
olined to relate the exact circumstanc
es which had attended their loss. The.
did not liks tn admit that they h.(