Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-04-23

| Twenty-four hours later he awoke in
St. Petersburg.
Next day a great carriage drove up
to his hotel and man wearing the
| splendid scarlet and gold uniform of
an imperial court marshal stepped
out. The official gave the name of
one of the numerous court marshals
| of the car.
His majesty said the court mar
shall. has been very much distressed
at the trouble in your family, especial
ly as your wife was a niece of the late
American ambassador. Such incidents
create i'll feeling between the two
countries.
81 advise you to return your child
to her or his majesty may compel you
to do So"
''I will never give my child up IN
less 1 am forced to do so. I would
| not give her up for a million roubles,"
said the count. 81 will not give her
up without a written order from the
car
An acrimonious dispute followed be-
tween the two men and the court mar
shall went away.
The next day he returned with an
order signed by the car, ordering him
| in the most positive manner to restore
his child to the custody of the mother.
Disobedience to this order would have
entailed loss of property and other
| serious consequences in Russia
Restored Child to Mother.
The count therefore promised to
obey, returned to Hungary and re-
| stored the child to her mother who
was waiting in Vienna. She sailed
| Immediately for the United States
with the little girl
The count went back to Russia
After he found that he had been
| tricked he informed the Grand
Duchess Sergius of the episode. As
! soon as she told the car about the
case, he remembered, of course, that
he had signed no order to the count.
| The czar was indignant. He ordered
Baron Freedericksz, minister of the
| imperial household, the highest official
| of the court, to make a searching in
vestigation and find out the name of
| the courier, or whatever he was, who
! forged the order to Count Gizycki.
| Gizycki has been ordered to remain
4 at the disposal of the car and the
court of inquiry AS soon as the Gull
prit is found and the details of the
crime established, the Russian minis
ter of foreign affairs will communicate
| with Washington with a view of hav-
| ing the little Countess Leonora
| Gizycki returned to her father
The Russian government will claim
that Count Gizycki's daughter is a
Russian subject; that her father is
her proper guardian, and that as she
was taken from him in the manner de-
!, scribed, the United States should re-
turn her to him. The little girl, who
is styled in Russia the Countess Leo
nora Gizycki, is now five years old.
| Her father and mother were married
| IN 1904
Counts Accession to Wealth.
| Count Gizych at the time of his
marriage was very poor, being largely
| dependent on his salary as a captain
| in the Austrian cavalry. The family
was of mixed Polish and Hungarian
extraction, and one branch was set
tied in Russia
Soon after his marriage, the count
Inherited large estates from an uncle
| in Russia, including several thousand
acres and three villages. As foreign
| ers cannot hold property in Russia,
Count GizycFi had to give up his Aus
| trian citizenship and become a sub
ject of the car
/ Before he left Austria he and his
wife had had serious quarrels She
found him entirely uncongenial and
very overbearing- It has even been