Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-08-05

moved the heads, and sometimes the
limbs from the bodies from motives
Of superstition.
He brought the fragments home ane
buried them in his stables and COW
stalls, and also in the fields where
crops were growing. being firmly con-
WINGED that he would thereby protect
the horses and cattle from disease
and insure good crops.
Ogrodovski was denounced by his
wife after he had beaten her. At his
trial he protested that he had no
criminal intent in mutilating the
bodies, and that 1t was the accepted
belief among the peasantry that por-
tions of corpses taken from graves
soon after burial brought good
luck"
Bavarian society is in a ferment
over a great gambling scandal which
involves a great number of aristocrat-
ic names. Two dukes. a score OF
counts, and many other titled men are
concerned in the affair, while the
name of Prince Francis Joseph, son
of the regent of Bavaria, has even
been dragged into it.
Reckless play at one of the smart
Munich clubs has ruined a number
of young noblemen, officers, and gov
ernment officials. resulting in the sui
eide of several and driving others to
shady methods of raising money.
This club has developed into a GAM
bling hell where between midnight
and six o'clock in the morning in one
night a sum of $225,000 changed
hands. SYSTEMATIC card-sharping has
been praeticed on inexperienced
young men, running many of them.
One young officer has been arrest
ed on some charge connected with the
scandal. Count MaX Preysing COM
mitted suicide because he was unable
to pay gambling debts amounting to
over S500,000.
The name of Prince Francis Joseph
was forged to promissory notes by
certain officers in order to raise mon
ey for gambling.
Most of the noble families of Ba-
varia are overwhelmed with shame by
the scandal which will probably re,
suit in the suppression of the club
where it originated
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The baby, Prince Wilhelm, who was
born on the 4thaof July, has already
had his future mapped out for him
by his autocratc grandpapa, the
the kaiser.
The emperor has commanded that
his grandson shall be brought up on
Spartan principles. He Is not to be
coddled. and as soon as possible, he
is to begin an open-air life No doubt
the little prince will he put into uni
form as soon as he is out of petit
coats.
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A Pepys-like diary candid and self
condemning, was the chief evidence
against Major Won lander. who has
been fined SIS for grating in con-
nection with commercial undertake
| ings.
The major entered in his diary all
his fears and scruples about his hon
esty, as well as details of his trans
actions which We're very shady.
The entries showed that he had
used his influence as an officer for
merly in high command, to procure
decorations for his business friends
and had received large sums for mys-
terious services rendered to them
He received a gift of $1,000 from one
i man for permitting his son to asso-
| ciate with his (zander's) family,
The extravaganza of his wife seems
to have had large share in bring
ing about the majors downfall, as In
order TO keep pace with her swell
ambitions, he was led into unsuccess.
full speeulations.
On hearing the verdict of guilty
the major burst into hysterical tears
and insisted that he was innocent.
A%$
Prince Klemens Metternich Whine.
burg. who is the last of his distin.
| guished house. has decided to sell the
greater part of the family art treas.
ures. They include works by Rem.
! brandt. Durer, Holbein. some of the
English masters and others. and are
worth over one million, six hundred
! thousand dollars The agent entrust.
ed with the sale is now on his way tc
! America. 1t win he remembered thai
the Metternlch collection was much
talked of some years ago when Prince
Klemen's father sold the famous Ma.
poleOn's table, in America.