Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-10-01
DEN MARK.

AS an aftermath to the Albert scan.
dal, Copenhagen correspondent
sends us the following:
For some time past there has been
constant cropping up of scandals
with resulting disappearance of
prominent men, or, at any rate. talked.
about people, The financial Difficult.
ties have been the cause Of the facts
coming to light and the financial
"krasch" of last fall the immediate
cause OF their difficulties. The rot.
tenness that has been revealed is ap
palling. The involved financial trans.
actions would be bad enough, but in
most cases it has been mixed up with
revolving stories of high life," and
shows a wide spread contagion of the
disease which the Germans emphati
cally term "offense against paragraph
IT'S, criminal code.'' The cases of
Germanot, George Peterson and Billy
Thalbitzer are only a few examples
of the most talked about ones.
The curious feature of the whole
matter is that the police, although
apparently well aware Of. the preva
lence of peculiar forms of vice and OF
those implicated, have done nothing to
Up the absconders from getting
away. The Kristeligt Dagblad, which
used to be the court organ up till some
time ago, has just made a fierce at
tack on the authorities for letting the
fellows Off, and hints that considera.
ton for the highest in the land has
been the deterrent. This, coming
upon the report that the engagement
Of Prince Harald, the younger brother
of King Haakon, and Princess Helen
of Glucksburg, has been broken of
In consequence of receipt of anony
nous letters, leads people to suspec,
all sorts of things.
Germandt's case was one of the first
to attract general attention. He ap
pears to have been nobody in particu.
lar, and it was all the more remarka,
BILE that he possessed very swell
friends. Officially he was journalist
and correspondent of the Stockholm
Dagblad. That comparatively modest
position did not prevent him being in.
vited to the royal banquet during En-
peror Williams visit, to dine with the
kaiser, in fact. That must have been
too great an honor, for Immediately
afterward the storm broke out and
exit Gernanot. But how the deuce did
he get such coveted invitation?
George Peterson should probably be
called fnancier. He was up to his
neck in the mess. The latest case lie
that of Herr Billy Thalbitzer, which
sounds like a music hall name, but
he was actually Greek consul general
and flash business man." A we'll
known man about the town with 6
large income which, however, was
never large enough by good deal
His financial affairs were inextricably
mixed up with those of George Peter
end also.
The fact of his being Greek consul
general makes the case important
Scandal swarms with consuls, whose
jobs are mostly opera bouffe affairs;
from ST. Domingo, Liberia, etc, and
are taken on only for che sake of q
handle to the name, but a Greek con,
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quite few meals at the palace on &C
count of the near relationship between
the two sovereigns. He should
therefore, be selected with discretion
He was not. He is now supposed to
be in New Z ork. The people are
waiting for the next case, the religious
papers even demanding fresh mate
rial-Martin w. Odland. 5
The recent death at Stockholm OF
Laura Fitinghof, the noted author,
has caused general sorrow. She was
sixty-six years of age, and for the past
thirty years has been busy with her
pen, writing looks that have given hel
a secure place among the popular
Swedish writer's. Some of her more
well known novels are: a Little
World Among the Crags.. When the
Buds egin TO Sprout, z Spring Air, II &
"The Old Peninsula, etc. She wat
a woman of sympathetic disp POSITION,
and her good deeds won ll,s.A
OF all who knew her. rs
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