Evening star., 1909-05-16

princes lodging till the time he re-en-
tered it he did not go TO a post once;
Unfortunately the officer could not ma
the prince at once and this gave the
paper which published the story chance
to say that the man posted the letter
when he came back to Zimony. where he
had visited a friend.
When the prince heard the OFFICER $
story he flew into a terrible rage ana,
sending for the valet. cried:
Where did you post my letters?"
I'm the post office. your highness!
You le.'' cried the prince, you nave
been to zmony You're a spy. and I'll
make you suffer for it.
Thereupon. he kicked or struck the man
who as they were near the staircase, fell
backward and downstairs.
All who saw the incident are unani-
nous in saying that the prince struck
only once and Immediately retired 10 a
nearby room. banging the door after hlm
The valet. the doctors say, had been suf-
fering from hernia for some time. Ihe
prince. his enemies affirm. knew this, be-
cause he had paid for the man tred,, =
ment. The kick or blow and the fall
downstairs combined to aggraVate the
maIady to such an extent that the man
had to be taken to the hospital, where
though an operation was performed .is ne
died some five or six days later.
Before he died, however. he signed
statement saying that he did not post the
letters: that the prince. in striking hln
threw him down by accident. because ne
had just got to the top of the stairs when
killed by aggravation of the hernia caused
bv the fall He denied that the prince
struck him more than once or foiioWea
him downstairs. He refused to say Wnat
o.
lie had been dong IN Anhons. uu' III
clared he lost the princes letter his
statement was witnessed by the nFe
doctors who attended him.
At the time nobody listened to this ex-
planation. But since then there mas pren ,rssn
a reaction in the princes favor. The
people in Servia are very angry tlat war
has been averted. and the prince was
for war. say he Is the only good man
about the court. The ministers and the
king are abused right and left.
"Why did the regicides stain their hands
in blood to put such an unworthy OBJECT
on the throne?' is a question asked py
the man i'm the street ten times a day.
Others tell you that Prince George was
the one man for Servia and that his
brother. Prince Alexander. will be afraid
of everybody and everything. Now the
majority of Servians declare that Prince
George was right to kick his valet
Il would have done the same myself,
is the verdict today. The man was
spv and it is a pity the prince was not
armed as he would have shot him at
once
One example of the way the Austrians
distort Prince Georges doings was given
the other day by a oervian minister's
wife.
IF YOU remember" she said. 1.-The
German papers wrote very Indignantly
the other day about the prince, saying
that when he crossed Budapest to go
from one station to the other he found
time to run after a young and beauti-
full woman and go about the town with
her. AS a matter of fact, il was the wife
of the Seryian minister at Vienna. She
and her husband went to meet the prince.
and both drove with him to the station.
She is mddle-aged and motherly. and
has known the prince since he was
baby.
OF course. the people who read the Aus
trian version have no opportunity of
learning the truth. The prince is i'm
petuous and impatient These are very
grave faults in a modern king. and he
has another quality which is also against
him in days when diplomacy is more