The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-08
HUNGARIAN
ANCESTRY OF QUEEN

a member of the bar. He Is very we'll
off. Tor, in addition TO the property
which nc inherited from his father,
and that which came to him through
his wife. he also inherited large
fortune as well as a considerable
amount OF property. from his grand
aunt, Miss Ramsey, owing 10 which
he quarters the arms OF Ramsey with
those of Lucy and Fairfax. The Ram
sey estates. which he owns, are sit
uated in Forfarshire, in Roahurgh-
shire, and in the county of Edinburgh.
Sir Henry Fairfax Lucy 1t may be
well 10 add. should not be COMPOUNDED
with Sir Henry w Lucy, the we'll
known English journalist who con-
tributes TO many American newspapers
and magazines. and who for very many
years has inquired in the pa ses of
Punch and on its staff as TOBY. NJ. X
The entire Polish aristq2cracy. in
Germany. Aa .si ana -, huss aao-s -
OF murder. at Warsaw of Count Bohdan
Ronikler, one OF the most CONSPICUOUS
figures in the great world at war.
saw. related to all the great houses OF
achieved considerable fame as the
writer OF some very successful plays
and popular novels of the patriotic or
der.
Last month the body, OF his wife's
de Chrzanowski. was found In a
fourth-rate hotel at Warsaw. trans
pierced with no less than seventeen
knife wounds. many OF them mortal.
The proprietor and several of the do
mestics OF the hotel were at once ar
rested. and ii was ascertained tnat
the lad had been in the house only
a. few hours before he met with his
death. and that he had gone there
on leaving tie school where ne was
receiving his education. 1t was IN
consequence of revelations made by the
Ytr CDuQf WAS seized
by the police and charged With oeing
the principal in the murder OF his
young brother-in- law
1t seems that Bronislaus Chrzanow-
ski. who is one of the greatest terrific
rial nagnates and richest multimil-
ltonaires in Poland, had, in addition
TO this now murdered son. one other
boy who Is afflicted with consenitai
and incuraOle imbecility. and an only
daughter. married to Count Ronlkier.
The latter, who is very extravaganza.
and who has recently lost enormous
sums at the card table. seems 10 have
, believed that IL he could only get
his wife's sane brother out of the
way, she would. in consequence OF
the mental ait!iction OF her othef
brother. Inherit all her fathers enor-
nous wealth BY reason of her being
the heiress, her husband would nave
been able to borrow large sums on the
strength thereof. That Is asserted tG
have been the motive of the crime. and
inasmuch as it has been definitely es-
tablished that It was the count who
himself hired the room where the room
where the boy was murdered; that his
neck at the time OF his arrest bore
the trace of severe scratches. pre-
| sumably received from the lad In en-
| deavoring to defend himself, and that
| the most damaging papers have been
| found by the police when they lnsti-
tuted a search of his house in War
saw, and of his principal country seat.
his guilt is regarded as definitely es-
AS this is not political crime. the
count, IL convicted. Will escape with
his life. and be sentenced TO per-
petual imprisonment In some remote
| penal settlement or in some Siberian
salt or silver mine. for capital punish
ment has been abolished ever since the
| days of Catherine the Great in or
| binary criminal procedure, andh as only
been retained in the army and navy
| as part and parcel of the so-called
| Articles of War. Political crimes arc
not tried by the ordinary tribunals. but
the provisions of military law. and
LIT Is in this way that the Russian
government has for the past forty
| years found means of INJECTING capital
punishment upon the authors Of Nihi-
Hist outrages, without violating the
statute of Catherine the Great. remov-
| ing the. death, penalty from the code
4 of criminal law.
| copyright. 1910. by the Bt~rtwood
! Company