The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-30
", MARoIIsE DE FoNTENoY

Ivy LA MARaUISE DE FONTISNoi
m Ella KL1aIM. son OF an en- ~
~ the Technical High School of
h Budapest, who has lately been ar
rested at the well known carayanserai,
the Hotel de Vile. at the Hague, under
the name of the Marquis de La
Rance" as member of one of the most
dangerous International gangs of swim.
dlers in existence, enjoys the question
able distinction of having played the
role of Don Juan to a princess OIL
reignins house.
Some eight years ago a sensation
was created in the court circles OF
Europe by the report OF the eiopelnen.
of the second sister of the pfessnt
Khedive Of Egypt, Princess 3Nimet. with
a foreign noble,nan. The princess. who
was a woman of exceptional beauty,
which she inherited from her mother,
was married about fourteen years aso.
at Cairo, with an immense amount Oh
Prince Djemil Toussoun Pasha. WHO.
fond of Viennese life, secured not lohs
afterwards from the Sultan tina post
of councillor and first secretary OF lnc
ottoman embassy TO the court OF
Austria. with the rank Of minister plen-
ipotentiary The young couple led de-
lightful life, dividing their time between
Vienna, fashionable watering places III
Europe and their estates IN Egypt, ull
til suddenly the prince discovered tliat
the princess had lost her heart 10 u
young foreign nobleman, and that ms
misfortune was the talk OF the town.
He Immediately left Vienna with ms
Wife, restored her to her brother, tue
declaring that his dishonor had been
OF TOO notorious a character 70 ever
admit of his living again with the prln-
cess as his wife. Accordingly DIS
solution Of the marriage was pronounc-
ed in due Mohammedan form.
The khedive, taking advantage OF
the authority which he possesses over
the members of his family, ordered his
sister under arrest In her own palnce
at Cairo, while her unfortunate en-
Withdrew to his estates in Esypt. III
spite of the gorgeousness OF her
the princess did not relish the inter-
ference with her liberty, and notwtth-
standing the vigilance of those who had
been appointed by her brother to keep
watch over her she managed to escape,
to get OH board the mail boat for
Trieste and to reach Vienna, Where SIZE
rejoined the Marquis" de La Rance,
for whose sake she had sacrificed both
Accompanied by the Marquis, She
after few days stay in Vienna, left
for Switzerland, and went on from there
to London, where she is reported 70
a marriage which Of course was not
legal from an Egyptian or Aoslem point
Of view, but which according to the
English and Continental police, Is quite
sufficient to add the crime of bigamy
10 the many other CHARGES pendlilg
against the Marquis" Some years
latter the termination OF his association
With the princess. that is to say, last
spring the Marquis" managed to WIN
the heart of Alice Hecht, only child ana
heiress of one of the merchant princes
Of Berlin, and inasmuch as the girl's
parents objected to his suit. he INDUCED
the girl to elope with him. and married
him AT the time of arrest, and refused Z o
return to her parents or to abandon
him to his fate.
Princess Nimet has now married
again, according 10 Aoslem rites, one
Of her cousins, and divides her time
between Egypt and Europe, her present
husband allowing her more liberty than
did Prince Toussoun II. therefore the
assertions of tho English and Cont
mental police are to be believed, the
swindler, "Marquis'' do La Ramee-,,,-a
name by the by, borne by the novelist
who wrote under the nom de plume Of
"Ouida"--is brother-in-law of the
Khedive, in the eyes of EuropeRn law.
although not that of Egypt or of
Turkey s IA ,
Fortunately for the princess, she now
bears them of her present Eg.yp-
tim husband, and strangers therefore
are not SO likely to associate he's With
the Princess Toussnun, who IS men
toned rs having been one OF the many
VI tins af the wlles of ths ar4@ ,s
Hague. while ,pe Dutch police are
underwriting to ascertain which OF
I'll the many demands for MS en-