The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28
PRINCE ACCUSED OF
FRAUD AND PERJURY
by la NIARQUIsE DE FONTENDh.
- RINCE ALEX.hND DER RADZlWlLL,

by la MARQuIsE DE FoNTEN0i.
~ RlNCE ALEXANDER RAl)IlWll1L
- who has just been charged in the
national Legislature at Vienna
with fraud and perjury IN con-
nection with some thoroughly discredi-
table financial transactions. belongs 10
the Austrian, and not to either the Ger
man or the Russian branch of this an
cient house OF the Polish aristocracy.
The reason why the accusations against
him have been brought up in Pariia
ment is that owing 10 the influence OIL
the RadziwIlls in Cralicia, where Prince
Alexander makes his home. the pro-
vincial criminal authorities have been
unable 10 institute the proceedings
against him warranted by the evidence
in the civil courts. | mag add that the
Minister OF Justice expressed his sat
isfaction that the matter had been
brought to his notice in Parliament, ana
| promised that immediate steps wouid
be taken TO bring the prince TO book
Prince Alexander. who spent some
time here in the United States i've
| years ago. Is not acknowledged as
relative by the Russian and German
Radziwills, or a. one OF the hona-hde
| Princes Radziwill. And thereby hangs
a tale. or rather romance.
! The hero of The latter was the CO.
| lossally rich Prince Dominic Radziwiu,
! OF the Russian branch OF the family.
I In 1897 he married Countess Isabella
| Nandeliu Mnislech, and after pro-
i lOUBtU WE0GlnR tour ldhllDH SENHId4
4 months. arrived at Siespiez, his mag
/ niticent country seat in the Russian pro-
| vince of Minsk. Great festivities were
! organized III honor of their return and
/ Countess Joseph Starzenski: the latter
| a cousin of the newly married Princess
| Isabella Radzlwill. one morning. to
| the CONSERVATION oil the members OF
| the house party. IL was discovered that
| the host. that is TO say, Prince Dominic
! Rad2i%ill. had disappeared with Count
1 ess StarZenska, and when nest heard of
they were in the Tyrol Divorce suits
! were instituted by the deserted l'rin-
| cess Isabella Raa2iwill, and by the
/ similarly abandoned Count StarZenskE
/ But before the cases could be brought
/ into court the Countess Starzenska
| gave birth in 1903, ut Gratz, III Aus
tria, to son. who was in REALTY the
| offspring of Prince Dominic RadziwiIl,
/ but who, according to Law. was Count
starzenski. since the child's mother 5
| union with Count Joseph StarzenSki
! had not at the time been dissolved, IT
| was not until a year later that Prince
Dominic Radziwill and the Countess
were able to lesalize their relations by
\ marriage, and shortly afterwards the
princess gave birth TO daughter,
Stephanie by name. of whose legiti-
macy there could be no doubt
Her brother Alexander, born gear
4 prior TO their parents marriage, grew
up in Austria and in France under the
name of Prince Alexander RadziwiIl."
His widowed mother appealed in vain
TO the Russian government and TO the
Car as we'll as 70 the Russian crown
/ TO grant decree iegitimizing him,
which would of course have entitled
him to all the entailed estates OF his
/ father In Germany and Russia The
Austrian government however, showed
itself more accommodating and thanks
/ TO the influence of the great Prince
Metternich, who was all powerful at
the time as chancellor, Emperor Fran
tal n Al on Lott .1rr ,1Fi leo
Limitation. recognizing him as the
legitimate issue of Prince Dominic
Radziwill and even placing him in
possession of all the property which
his father had left in Austria
Much to the disgust of the court of
A Vienna, Prince Alexander made a
mesalliance, marrying Rosina Hill
IN, the pretty daughter OF the bonfaee OF
Tavern at Vienna, and died in 1858
insane. In the great lunatic asylum at
I Dobling. near, Vienna leaving two
/. In 1882 Emperor Francis Joseph
confirmed the title of prince afresh &c
Prince Louis and to Prince Sergius
and caused them to be enrolled as such
among the territorial nobility of Aus
trian Poland, and entitled thereby tc
seats In the provincial Diet of Cali,
cha,
Prince Louis, the elder of the two
fathers disposition in matters lt matri-
monial. for. before he had been mar
ried three years with Countess Valerie
OrioWska, he ran off with the wife OF
i his friend, Adolf de Capellini, and af-
ter becoming a convert from Roman
: Catholicism to Lutheranism in order tc
enable him TO secure a divorce from
the Austrian courts, he made her his
wife. On her death he reverted to the
| Roman Catholic Church..
The Prince Alexander Radziwill now
charged with perjury and fraud Is the
offspring of Prince Louis's first mar
riage with Princess Oriowska, and al.
though he has been married for six.
teen years with Wilma Ordody, has nj
children. AS his fathers only brother
j. Prince Sergius also died without chill
, dren. there is every prospect Of thi:
Austrian branch of the Radziwill fami
! ~ becoming extinct with Prince Alex
!, ander's demise.
: here that Prince Anthony Albert Rad
! twill whose projected marriage will
T. Miss Gladys Deacon in London is meet
Ing With sesmany obstacles; is the y yi i,
!, y, that is to say. Of the Russian an
] German branches, since his father
9 Prince George, has been under re
straint for years as homicidal mani
:, able to exercise his rights, It. is be
cause the management Of his father
is S esfed n he h OF
a tSes, " within iloNSNSi' 'it's4 tiS'''S
q Prince George, before he became In
sane, Aand his mother. nee Counties
n eighteen gears ago for their insane eN
: ! travagance and gambling propensitie:
a that they were each of them placed un
It der "Curatel" that Is to say, <eprlye
!, OF the control of their respective for
- tunes, Prince George being in additio
lthereto relieved Of dis commission !