The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-14
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NY ia sfARaUIsE DE ToNTENoY.
a 81 Err this year the name OF
l. IN Countess Helen Won Voss, mar
I]-A ried to MajorsYon Grone, OF the
Third, or Queen IIlizabcth's.
Regiment OF Prusslan Grenadier
Guards will no longer appear in that
special volume OF the Almanach de
Gotha which Is devoted to the cnu-
meration Of the German, Austrian and
russian counts and countesses. This
is tho result OF an extraordinary suit
which has Just taken place in the SUI
Preme Court OF the German Empire at
The late Count George Won voss
fsG 9, i11, OF Ia Trussian and Mecklenburg
role In Prussian history. one OF its
members. Amelia Won Voss, having
Fred er ne m0,T,Eanatic consort Of King
Antonta Debska. The union. though
childless; and feeling the absence OF
some one on whom he could lavish
adopted the little daughter OF one Of
ms ~ wires sisters. who was married
to q carpenter. The carpenter and his
wife relinquisied all claim to the girl.
S% rn9; g, name was Helen. and who was
~
5voss wholly as their own. II n order to
completely establish the position OF
me child the count bribed a Lutheran
clergyman Is e to furnish him with a bap.
MS own offspring.
!, When the child. who was thus
brought up as Countess Helen Won
3yoss, and figured as such In the Al
m ny, de Gotha, was thirteen years
old her aunt and adopted mother died.
|lIn1S-Ewlg In n STS lat mr.
George Won Voss married woman OF
his own rank. Emeline Won Harrassow.
sHk SKY, OF the Galician. that is to say.
: Polis 4 nobility.. confiding to
threatening her with death In case
she should reveal 1t to any one else.
W F,I, Helen grew up into very lovely
glrl she was married, as Countess Won
Won Grone.
had been SO devoted to his adopted
daughter, neglected to make Will.
and when. he died q question arose as
s 6, the disposition OF his large fortune
I tation II she kept the secret OF
.Helen's birth. she would be Obliged
70 surrender considerable portion of
her dead husbands estate. II. on the
other hand. she revealed the true facts
shc would become the sole heir. 1t
IS not surprising that she decided in
favor OF the latter alternative, and
9 morning Nine Won Grone RECEIVED
OF having been the daughter OF Count
George Won Voss she was merely the
offspring of humble village cr---nter.
an, OF his peasant wife. The widowed
inasmuch as she (Mme. Won Grone) had
received SO many benefactions from
her adopted father during his lifetime.
she would do we'll to abandon all
rI h trl-
the exposure of her humble origin.
which a lawsuit would necessarily en-
TAIL
The widowed Countess Won voss had.
however. reckoned without her host.
as ah WI9es
age. took the initiative In litigation.
and before she knew where she was
the widow found herself the defendant
instead OF the plaintiff in. the action.
The majors case was that he had been
induced to marry his wife by repre-
sensations that she was the only child
and heiress Of Count George Won Voss.
and that consequently fraud had been
practiced upon him. He brought evil
dence to show that inasmuch as his
marriage had taken place six or seven
Years after the second union OF Count
George Voss. the latter's widow was
fully cognizant OF the deceit and a
party TO the fraud. He, therefore, de-
sole heiress OF her husband, but as a
party to the fraud practiced upon him..
should be compelled to pay a sum OF
some S250.000. to which his wife would
have been entitled had she really been
the counts daughter
The Supreme Court OF the empire, IN
final appeal, has now decided In the
majors favor and his wife Will. there.
fore. not suffer any pecuniary loss
through the disclosure OF the secret OF
her birth; while her own charm and
her husbands popularity at the court
of Potsdam and in the Berlin great
world, are sufficient to prevent her po-
sition being impaired by the sacrifice
Of her nine-pointed coronet as count
ess In fact, sympathy in Berlin and
at Potsdam has been all with the
Grones. in their light with the widowed
Countess George Won Voss
Victor Emmanuel III. has Just COM