New-York tribune., 1907-06-17

jIdicial separation agaaGt her husband in London
to t1H ctfcot t.at he had cxtorted large of
money from Ter for the payment of his gambling
CcD.5 ~ Threatening Jump cut Of the window
t|en and there unless she complied with his oecu-
n;aTy demands serves TO recall the legend accord
lEG to "Alcu he IS asserted nave Jumped
0Eo?1ed out of . second story window o. the Old
Notro2cl.ton Club, AT Washington. after midnight.
IL in5u:y. Th!s tae, well the story o. how,
":.+rt young suc-ohlcer Of the Brandonburs
tdirassers, ne, on being attacked ore night by a
gang OF drunken TufIans, placed his back against
'hr Wa!l and slashed about him with his sabre ~
Fuch erect that three OF ES assailants WEE hany
wounded ana the others took to flight endowed
him with q certain amount OF romance - the eyes
or the late Sir John MaplcsS only daughter ana
contributed in no small degree to her marrying him
Ia the face Of ne: fathers opposition.
Tho union was bound from the very outset to
resui: badly. for the baron had very marked
strain Of brutality I'm his character. which served
70 alenate from him not only English society. but
also his own Countrymen of birth and breeding,
such for instance. Count Wolf Metternch. the
present German Ambassador iE London. who in
sisted that the barons connection with the en-
h1Ssy should be entirely severed Then. too II vas
known that the baron a heavy gambler, both
Milh Gurus ana on TIE Stock f>H'iaiiSt' anu 10:
the money which he was Squanderlng was not ms
own but that Of his wife. She. on her side, while
Il handsome woman, has inherited much Of her
tathers lack of refinement, and IS moreover
frightfully purseproud In fact, the corps dp!o-
matique and the great world in London sun recall
with mingled amusement and horror the time when
during the long illness of the former German Am
baSSadCT. the late Count Paul Hatzfeldt. Baroness
Eckhardstein was called upon wife Of the senior
married secretary 70 play the role of German Am
bassa dress in doing the honorS Of the embassy The
The matrimonial affairs ot the couple are IN a
pretty tangled condition just at present for Whlie
the baron is seeking a divorce in Germany the
baroness is suing for judicial separation In Eng
land. where the baron. although a German citizen
has had his legal domcIlc until now. The baroness
has a long list of acts Of personal violence ana
brutality and of pecuniary eXtortion with which
she charges her husband showing that only Esl
wear she had been obliged nay $2N0.0Go IN order
to save him from bankruptcy and ruin SHe also
inputes him many acts of faithesSneSS. lie on
on his side objects her medical attendant, whom
she declines sacrifice for his sake IN ldCl' IN
scandal Is Il very pretty
The only foolish thing about the whole matter IS
the attempt made 10 describe the Union ~ haVlh@
been q inasaIliancA the part Of the baron. For
If the baroness is the daughter Of old SIR Johh
Maple. the retail furniture dealer of Tottenham
Court Road. whose good nature was only equalied
by his appalling and picturesque NulgarltF ana
his lack OF aspiratcs. the baron on MS side Is
descended from "a of the same stamp. namely
Ernest Eckhardt. who made fortune as army
contractor I'm the early part Of last century ana
who enpohle1 hy way OF part payment OF
some pcCUnary claim of the house OF Eckhatot
Co. against the Prussian War Department.
is n peculiar coincidence that at the very mo-
men, when the affairs Of the baron engaging
the attention Of tire public. both in Germany ana
IN England in s1cn au unsavory fashion, the mag
iacent Eckhardtsoiu palace on the Ntheimstrasse
AT Berlin and one of the finest residences Of that
thoroushfare should 10 in process Of being torn
down True IL passed out Of the possession OF the
Eckhardtsteins number Of years ago, but 1t has
always retained tho name Of the old army CON
tractor. y no devoted a siderable portion OF MS
great wealth 10 its construction.
on his mothers side Baron + E0khardtsteln can
boast OF a more distinguished lineage. For she Is
the grandchild Of the famous German F1eld Mar
shal Count IIIeist. one of the most heroic figures
in the NapoIeonin and she is the last survivor
Of the great soldiers family
MARQJ-ISE DE FoNTENOY.