The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-17
PRINCESS SEWED
Up IN A SACK
Outraged Husband Adopts a
Mean Revenge
BUMPED AT STATION
Accidentally Discovered and Released
by Railroad Employes-Battle,
Murder and Death On Gee
Wan-Russian Border.
BY MALCOLM CLARK.

BY MALCOLM CLARK.
Berlin, May 16-The aristocracy of all
Southern Europe is aghast at the almost
Incredible occurrences which have taken
place in the family of the wealthy Rou
manian Prince Strashnitsky Tho details
appear for the first time in the Lokalan-
zeiger.
At Wilomsk station the railway Off
cials noticed upon an open truck big,
tightly-corded parcel without any name
or address. They opened it and found
therein a woman. very young and beau
tiful,. whose flesh was cut by cords.
Only after prolonged efforts was the
mysterious woman recalled to conscious
ness.
She described thereupon the appalling
outrage of which she was the victim
Her husband, Prince Strashntsky She
said, had suspected her of betraying him,
and the suspicion was well founded Her
lover was the factor in the Princes Rou-
manian estate, and between the love-
blinded pair an elopement had been
planned. servant betrayed the scheme
to the husband.
The Prince plotted a terrible revenge.
He seized the factor and locked him up.
He gave his unsuspectng wife a drug.
stable boys bind her limbs and sew her
into a cloth covering.
The living parcel he took the station
in his own trap, and, by distracting the
attention of the station officials, man
aged to get it through unnoticed upon
a truck.
Shortly afterward the train started. The
Princess lay all night. unable to stir,
and only IL hours later was the terrible
package undone.
The Princess, it is added, stood the or
deal comparatively we'll Strashntsky
and the stable boys who helped in his act
of vengeance have been arrested,
The Breslau newspapers. report law
suit which gives a very curious picture
of German provincial manners.
government assessor, an official of
considerable position, took an action
against a communal official for writing
him an offensive letter. The communal
official had taken offense at the assess
or's curious habits.
The latter had q. habit of massaging
himself before his window in the costume
of Adam before the ball.
The communal official, who lived op-
posite resented this Arcadian practice
and shouted across the courtyard what
he thought of his neighbor.
He followed this reproof with an In
dignant letter.
The court acquitted the letter writer,
and sentenced the Adamite official to
fine of 100 marks.
Battle. murder and sudden death are
daily Incidents of life on the German
Russian frontier.
The cause of this is the habit of the
Russian frontier guard" of allowing
smuggling on payment of fixed sum
and shooting remorselessly all who re-
fuse or are unable to pay.
The following Is the latest instance
coachman when driving to meet
train in PetralSov gave a peasant lift.
As the trap with its two occupants
approached a patrol the soldiers shouted
to the ooachman that he>was smuggling,
and demanded a ruble.
The ooachman had only 40 kopecks
Qess than half a ruble). He handed it
over and the soldiers Immediately shot
him dead.
They then robbed the peasant of every
thing he possessed, and beat him almost
to death. Nevertheless, he escaped, and
had the soldiers afterward arrested.
Such Incidents take place almost daily
and even lead to minor diplomatic Incl
dents, as the Russians sometimes shoot
across the frontier at travellers who they
consider have "defrauded" them of the
recognized bride.
From Zoastdowo. near the Russian
frontier comes a terrible tale of a
womans crimes, revealed after years of
secrecy, In a deathbed confession.
The wife of a forester named Krantz,
while watching her husband Telling a
tree, was struck by the trunk and bad
~ injured. She was, taken into a log
cabin in a hopeless condition and died
after telling the following story:
She had been unfaithfu1 to her first
husband, a sailor, during his long alb
sence Her lover was a lad of only II,
the son of rich landed proprietor, on
whose estate She lived. A child was
born as the result of this love affair. Be-
fore any one had heard of its existence
she strangled it and burned the body In
potter's oven. When her husband re-
turned the sight of him was hateful to
her.
At first she tried to live with him and
forget the past. But one day, under an
overmastering impulse, she struck him on
the back of the head with an axe and as
/ he lay stunned despatched him with a
knife.
This body she also tried to burn, but
failing, she buried It in the garden and
told her neighbors that her husband had
been called up for another long cruise.
Three months later she spread the story
that he had been drowned and married
again.
The strangest part of the confession
was Krantz's description of the moral
torture she afterward suffered. Although
she loved her secondshusband devotedly,
she stated that every time he turned his
back upon her she felt an almost ir-
resistible impulse to strike him dead, as
she had done her first, un1oved hus-
band.
DR.. Walden Georgewitsch, formerly
Servian minister president and intimate
friend and adviser Of the late King
Milan, has published at Stuttgart, in
Germany, a remarkable historical ro-
nance, "Golgotha," covering the interval
between the divorce of the Servian King
and his abdication. German critics agree
that unlike most up-to-date historical ro-
mances, "Golgotha" has as great literary
merits as it has historical value.
Milan, who appears under the thin dis
gulse of Aemilian ~, is depicted as
a man of great ability and at the same
dime strong passions. He has been a
great success in defending his country.
against the encroachments of stronger
neighbors, one of whom Vostok (Rilssia1,
has even planned his death. The sbeauti-
full widow of lieutenant, Yefremovitch.
whom the King has had executed for
treason, is chosen to kill HING The King
on the other hand, is not content with
his happiness. He wants to abdicate,
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