The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-17
HEIR APPARENT 10 TIE
 SERVIAN THRONE INSANE
EFFORTS OF PHYSICIANS TO CURE HING PETERS SON
 BUTILE.

Likely That He Will be Confined in
 Some Private Sanitarium Outside of
 Seryla-Many UnfayorabIe Reports of
 Young Man Since His Sire's Accession
 to the Throne After the Murder of
 King Alexander and Queen Draga-
 Ran Away With Actress Once.
 Vienna, Nov. 16.- An unconfrmed report is in circulation at Belgrade that Crown Prince George of Servia has become insane. The servian min ister here was seen to-day regarding the reports of the insanity of Crown Prince George of Servia He said it was true that the crown prince had shown trritability and that this had caused great anxiety in court circles. He does not believe the princes afflic- tion will be admitted officially, all though the efforts of physicians to cure him have ended in failure. The min ister has no official information on the matter, but believed the prince may be sent to a sanitarium, probably in some other country, and that further endeaWors will be made to effect cure. The prince has shown such abnormal symptoms that he must be isolated.
 According to advices received here from Semlin there is talk of changing the succession to the throne of Servia in favor of Prince Alexander, the sec ohd son of King Peter.
 King George, the heir apparent to the throne of Servia, was born August 27, 1887. Many reports of an unfavorable nature have been circulated concern ing the young price since the accession of his father Peter l., to the throne in 1903 It has been said that compared with Prince George, the late kings, Milan and Alexander, may be regarded as having been the perfection of west ern civilization. In fact, one writer chased Prince George as a "semi-in- sane young savage, regardless of every restraining influence of law, conven- tionality. decency and civilization" and said it was "frightful to contemplate his being placed in the possession of a European throne and in charge of the destinies of ono million of Servians."
 In November last the prince was re- ported to have been confined in a fortess for ten days, the result Of grossly insulting his late tutor, Major Levasseur, and he is said to have es- capped and to have run through the main streets of Belgrade towards the palace, followed by an officer whose clothing gave evidence that he had sealed wall in pursuit of the fugitive. King Peter Is said to have ordered the prince back to the fortress immediately.
 In December, 1904, Prince George, ac- cording to a dispatch from Belgrade, eloped with an actress of the National theater, Mile. Dechanska Georgevich, and went to Vienna, where they were found drinking in a cafe, in the midst of band of gypsies. The prince was taken back to Belgrade and the actress forbidden to return to Servia
 Prince George was reared practically nnder the direction of the Russian court and report printed shortly after the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga said that he was to oc- cupy, eventually, the throne of Servia. But since then in July, 1903, not long after the accession of King Peter it was stated in dispetch from St, Pet ersburg that specialist in the treat nent of backward children had, at the command of the imperial government, examined and observed Prince George and had reported to Emperor Nicholas that the prince was a degenerate.
 Prince Alexander, the second son of King Peter, was born December 4 Gold style), 1888. The king also has one daughter, Princess Helene, born in 1884.