The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-08
POISON MAKES
GUESTS FUNNY
Henbane Mistaken for Horse
Radish Produces Many
Curious Results.
HIGH PLAY AT CARDS PUTS
YOUNG COUNT IN BAD LIGHT
Husband of Pretty Coincidence
Accused of DiShOnorable
Practices.
BY EMIL ANDRASY.
al Cable 10 The Tribune,

VIENNA. Jan. The last issue of
medical journal at Munich contains
an article describing the strange scenes
for which the unwitting eating of hen.
bane by guests ut a boarding house at
Davos was responsible
The doctor says that twenty. five
visitors and some employees were given
horseradish for dinner, with which the
henbane root was accidentally mixed
and all were poisoned.
A Russian lady who spoke German
huentlv, forgot that language; an Eng.
llsh woman wanted TO teach everybody
her tongue one woman thought herself
n living statue, another on her hands
and knees, insisted on searching for an
object she had lost, and several women
could not stop laughing One woman
ran to the telephone and put her tongue
out ut the receiver as though exhibit
ing II 10 doctor. A female servant
placed twenty five hot water bottles in
her own bed instead of those of the
visitors.
a male visitor busted himself count,
ing imaginary banknotcs, while another
gentleman set out for the drug store,
lost his memory, and bought useless
things in shops. The proprietor Of the
In his bedroom and emptied the liquid
on the pillows.
A doctor was sent for and explained
how they had all been poisoned by
henbane. This affects the brain. but all
the patients recovered after treatment.
Not to Aid Germany.
Austria S naval programme is be-
ing pursued, not with an idea
of helping out Germany in any
collision she may have with Eng
land, but solely for the pur
may make to dominate the Adriatic
and take Trieste. This statement
comes from high sources, While both
Italy and Austria are members of the
Triple Alliance, and are nominally. at
least, friends, the feeling is growing
here that Rome aspires to be recog-
nized as the mistress of the Adriatie
and would welcome any shifting of the
cards which would give her Trieste.
Austria realizes that she must have
a fleet equal to that of Italy if she is
10 hold her own This is the reason
for the ambitious super Dreadnaught
programme.
High play at rouge ct noir in Lon
don hotel has led to the arrest in
Vienna of the young Count Gisbert
Metternich. aged "a, a nephew of the
Metternich, who Is at present engaged
as secretary TO motor car factory,
three months ago married fayorte
Viennese musical comedy actress.
AS he has been Prussian subject,
he was transferred into the charge of
the German police. The charge against
him is alleged completely in gambling
swindlc, and is laid by German ar
tillery lieutenant stationed at Metz,
named Backhaus
High Play Suspicious.
Lieutenant Backhaus alleges that
while on leave in London last summer
he made the acquaintance of the count,
together with two other men, Ac.
companied by his new friends, Lieuten
ant Backhaus visited the "sights' Of
London. They dined at hotel, aud
after dinner played at rouge ct noir
using matches as counters,
At first the lieutenant won. 1t was
then agreed, he says. that he and Count
Metternich should hold the bank to-
gether. They lost $500. Lieutenant
Backhaus, having no money to pay his
share. the count handed a check for
the whole sum TO their opponents.
Lieutenant Backhaus saw little more
of his companions. and shortly after
ward returned to his garrison at Metz.
On receiving later an emphatic request
from Count Metternich for the repay
ment of the $3.50 advanced to him, he
conceived certain suspicious, and in
formed the police
1t is stated that further allegations
are made against Count Metternich-
that he obtained a valuable pin on
credit from London ieweler by false
lv representing himself to be member
of the German embassy, and that he
fraudulently withheld the proceeds OF
the sale of horse belonging TO a lady
in Berlin.
The count s own statement with ref
erence to the rouge CT NOR affair is
that both he and Lieutenant Backhaus
were dupcd by the other two players.