Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-24
bert, Uncrowned King of Denmark,
The Champion CRATER of the World.
Albert,
Story the ENnster Of Denmark Who
S750O000 YearsBgan His Criminal eng Upon
Won1en-Wl Intellect Made Him Most Powerful I'M Country.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
~ oPENHAGEN Oct. 10.-Aston-
A ishins examples Of the bound
V less crednlity of the general
public are afforded by the bril-
liant and meteoric career of Peter a.
Albert, the former minister of justice
OF Denmark. Alberti's life story Is truly
a romance. and confirms once more
the timc-worn saying. that truth is
stranger than fiction" He sprang from
the middle classes and was driven on
by his own Unsuitable ambition to the
very highest places in the country,
from which he then fell with dramatic
suddenness, exposed to his fellow
Danes and to all the world as brutal
relentless, callous criminal
1t is worthy of note that Peter a.
Albert revealed inhuman, and, in a
sense. criminal tendencies when he
was II small boy at school. 1t is related
by his contemporaries who spant their
infancy and early youth with, him IN his
native village Oh the Island Of ICELAND.
that young Alberti made himself con-
spicuous among them by his love of
cruelty and of ill-doings. The malicious
and heartlesss pranks which Alberti
played on, his fellow pupils are Impress
ed indclibly on their memories. al
though nearly half a century has gone
by since the days of their common
childhood. 1t also is related of Albert
that he was known among his juve-
nile companions as the perpetrator of
horrible cruelty on animals. 1t used to
be his delight TO torture insects to death
With all possible retinements of cruelty.
On one ccason he was punished Sc
vc1.ely by his benevolent father for
locking cat up in n dark room and
keeping it without food for many days
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door and listen to its piteous squeals.
On another occasion parental chastise-
ment was meted out to him for chop
ping off a dogs tail. and on yet other
occasions for perpetrating other hor-
rible acts of brutality, which at that
early age stamped him as an Individual
of exceptionally vile and relentless
character. All, the age of 16 he made
himself unpleasantly conspicuous
among the small village community by
striking his own mother and many
other stories of his pernicious tenden-
5cies now are told i'll the hour of his
disgrace.
SON OF "A LAWYER.
His father wa ga well known lawyer
ana member OF the Danish parliament,
and possessed a high reputation for hon
csty ;nd public spiritedness in Dem.
mark. while his mother came of a good
middlc class family and was known
tor her exceptional purity Of character.
and nobility OF heart 1t is one Of the
curious freaks of nature that so cum
ricg and determined q criminal should
have sprung from such a stock, and
criruinologists express the opinion that
he is a case of reyersion TO the traits
of some criminal ancestor.
AS, 8 student at the University of Co
re,,hagen, Alberti made name for
nj,,,sp1T rhipfly- selfish anu
dec.itful conduct. He was unpopular
with his fellow students on account
OF his absolute lack of decent feelings
in his dealings with them, and he grew
mp to manhood disiked by all who
oancsinto contact with him. He was
a man Of great intellectual ability, and
at the unusually early age of y he was
cited to the Danish bar and began
before the courts of Justice,
and -four. years later he was admitted
to Practise before the supreme court of
the kingdom, distinction rarely
&c licved by men under 40 1t is thus
evident that Aiberti is a criminal of
men by the brillfancy of his mental tall
enls and dazzled them with his brain
while behind the scenes
he utilized his extraordinary abilities
to rob and plumber mankind
WOMEN HIS; PREY.
The mans criminal career may be di-
divided into two periods-the period of |
breying on women and the period of
on the lower classes of the
AS a young man. and al |
rosts up to his thirty-fifth year. Alberti
wed a life of extreme licentiousness,
which more than once brought him
INTO collision with the law Of the land.
During these years he was practising
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