The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
PRINCE FRIEDRICH
REDUCING WEIGHT
Lives Life of Common Laborer
At Home
IS A NOUN TAIN OF FAT
Love Affair of True OId-fashioned
Kind Has Pleasant Climax at
udapest-countess Mar
ries Peasant.
BY MALcoM CLARKE.

BY MALcoM CLARKE.
Berlin, September 26.-Finding himself
growing into "a mountain of fat" as he
expressed himself. Prince Eitel Fried
rich of Prussia. the Kaisers second son,
has undertaken novel cure, of which
he has just finished the first stage.
For several weeks he has been living
the life of common day laborer at his
summer residence. Ingenhen Castle, near
Charlottenburg, where from morning till
night he engaged in the most strenuous
physical work. From five to seven hours
day of gardening, tree-felling, cutting
hedges. saving wood, carpentry and the
building of sheds have made up his daily
programme.
He has been taking an especially active
part in building a new riding school, and
dressed in jumper and overalls. welded
hammer and saw for two weeks.
This work was going on during very
hot weather. but remonstrances by
Princess Eitel Friedrich were dsre-
garded.
In addition to manual labor the Prince
takes hard horseback exercise very early
In the morning, on which trips his wife
is his constant companion. The Prince
is rs years old, and though of tall, sol
dierly figure, has been growing very stout
during the past two years.
A love affair of the true old-fashioned
kind had its climax the other day at
Budapest, in Hungary, when, before a
civic judge, Countess Henrietta Pongracz,
only daughter of an old aristocratic fam
lily belonging to the most ancient nobil-
1ty of Hungary, was married to peas
ant named Johann Ondrasik.
The love affair began last spring, when
the 16-year-old countess formed an at
tachment for young Ondrasik, a peasant
lad working in the fields of her fathers
estate.
Her father, Count Edward Pongracz,
was furious when he discovered that his
daughter loved the farm laborer and
promptly sent her to a convent school.
The countess escaped soon afterward
and Joined her lover and the couple made
their home in a miserable hut Just out
side the gates of Count Edwards castle.
The Infatuated father then appealed to
the Hungarian court of guardians to ex-
ercise their authority over his daughter,
as she was a minor, and the judge Or
dered the countess to be arrested and
placed in a reformatory in budapest.
Her lover retained a lawyer. who fought
the order and appealed to the ministry
of the interior.
Meanwhile Count Edward had died,
leaving his daughter unforgiven and prac-
tically penniless, the bulk of his fortune
going to his son, Count Johann Pom
grace. The countesss mother, a woman
of middle class birth, at last yielded to
her daughters entreaties to consent to
their marriage, which was then cele-
brated on Tuesday.
legal proceedings against her brother,
from whom she claims half of her IA
theirs estate.
couple of days ago Lieut.. Kurt
Haensch of the Fourteenth infantry was
found lying dead in his bedroom at
Bromberg, in eastern Prussia, beneath
the body of a girl with whom he was
known to have been on intimate terms.
1t was at first supposed to be case
of double suicide. but subsequent infor-
nation shows that the affair was of a
more remarkable nature.
The girl, Martha Eichgrun, who was 26
years of age and the daughter of a gend-
arme. had been the mistress of the young
officer for five years and was attached
to him by a passion of the most ardent
and jealous nature. Her parents, after
in vain having tried to make her give
up the liaison, had cast her Off
A few months ago the lieutenant made
the acquaintance of girl of his own
class who, he thought, would be a more
suitable partner for life, and with the
object of carrying out this idea he pre-
pared to cut himself adrift from Frau
lein Eichgrun Anxious both to spare the
girls feelings and to provide for her flu
ture, he tried under various pretexts to
induce her to take up some form of
work, but she saw through his manoeu-
vres and openly declared that she would
kill him rather than he should belong to
another.
At last it was impossible to conceal
the truth from her any longer and as
soon as she learned it she proceeded in
the most deliberate manner to put into
execution those threats which her tickle
lover had never taken seriously.
She sold all she had, and having bought
a revolver and a wedding ring with the
proceeds she set side what remained to
cover her funeral expenses. She then
put on her best clothes and waited out
side the officers casino till Lieutenant
Haensch should return to his quarters.
1t was already morning before he APP
peared. She followed him home at a safe
distance and waited till she thought ne
would be asleep.
Then she entered the house with a du-
plicate latch key he had given her
AS she had expected, he was sleeping.
Stealing up to the bedside she fired
bullet into his head, killing him instantly
Not satisfied that she had achieved the
first part of her purpose, she discharged
two more shots into his heart.
She next hunted up the love letters
she had written him and arranged them
in order after which she wrote letters
explaining the grounds of her action and
asking that she might be buried in the
clothes she was wearing. She then
slipped the wedding ring on her finger.
and leaning over the PROSTATE body of
her lover fired a bullet into her own