The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-14

cused of fraud forgery and of being
as neatly tricky a card sharper as
ever practised sleight of hand In the
saloons of tine fashionable and wealthy
Against the effort to brand him as a
social blackleg and schemer Meter
n,ch has ruthlessly torn aside cur
tains OF respectability-heavy brocad-
ed, rich curtains. be II understood
and disclosed a condition of affairs
In the society of the German capital
which the German press finds startling
and reprehensible to the last degree.
The dashing. debonnair Metternich
with his claim to a distant connection
with the royal house Of Hapsburg of
Austria. which seems not to be un-
founded, explains his actions of in
curing vast debts on an income Of
- n month. and of giving out bills
of exchange Of pretty dancers and
others charmers of the under world.
who cashed them easily and which
he could never hope to redeem. by
fatty declaring he had every reason
to expect that he would contract a
marriage with an heiress. He names
two fair young women Of vast for
tanes. one Of whom he declares he
surely would have welded If the law
and his creditors had not swooped on
linn and planted him in the dock in
stead of helping him with further ad-
vances toward the altar.
His Matrimonial Chances.
Openly he has named Dolly Vert
helm. the young and very beautiful
daughter Of Wolff Wertheim, Berlins
richest storekeeper, MS having been
hetrothed to him. He declares he
once absolutely held the position of
accepted future son-in-law in the
Wertheim home. which is an imposing
mansion.
The other helress he had on his
string' he asserts to have been a
Spanish millionairess who makes her
home i'm New York city. She is said
10 be widow of ravishing beauty and
graces as well as enormous wealth
and that the Introduction came to
Count Metternlch through n Paris
marriage agent. So far Metternich
has withheld her name. She Is refer
red to in the court papers and evil
dence as Donna Mercedes
II Metternich can prove well-de-
fined and happily moving project to
wed so wealthy a woman. II may des-
troy the presumption that he issued
notes and secured money with Grim
inaI intent to defraud. This, how
ever, would surely involve an order
from the Count demanding that Mer-
ternich reveal in full the name and
identity OF the Spanish heiress Of
American adoption.
.npfi IN Ia
once the accepted sultor Of Dolly
Wertheim has called forth the bitter
est denunclation Of Metternch by the
girls mother. Frau Wertheim. Most
contemptuously she has said that the
only manner I'm which ne ever got in
TO Wertheim household was as a sort
of lackey, fetching and carrying for
herself and daughter. She says guests
at one OF her dinner parties viii re-
member how she once sent him out
TO get a bag OF doughnuts
Metternich has retorted on the frau
even more fiercely than she on him,
accusing her of being the most out
rageous OF social climbers. and that
in the hope OF securing this end she
was willing to sacriEce her daugh-
ter's purity. He quotes The wealthy
frau as saying to her daughter: Il
would rather you would become the
mistress of a Prince than the wife
OF a nobody
And there followed other testimony
which in its evidence Of immortality
and corruption in German society
moved the National Zeitung editorial
ly to declare:
Of tIx.
riches lnfest society and there parade
all sensual pleasures cOrrupting fam
lily life to the very core and break
Ing down all barriers OF modesty.
Theirs is a detestabl- worship of gold
before which everybody bows down,
and a shameful worship of titles and
Zig names which they do not require
TO be won by any worthy actions.
This Metternlch trial is painfully char
acteristic of our superficial epoch
which only Graves amusement and
excitement"
Heiress' Letters.
- Dolly Wertheim herself does not es-
cape In the general attack made on
the social circles in which she and
her mother moved. Letters from Dol
~ TO friends nave Deen Drought oul
IN court, and the expert. Prof Eulen-
Eerg. testified on the witness stand;
I'm these letters one feels the heavy
scent laden atmosphere and hot
breath OF Salome. This girl Is q
worthy daughter Of this modern Her
odias."
In one of these letters Dolly re-
lates that when she was only six
years old her mother showed her 9
photograph of one Of her fathers mis-
tresses and said 10 her, Dolly, that's
your aunt" Then lately Dolly wrot'
II how Lor mother told her she woult
rather she entered laison with {
prince than become the wife Of a no
body.
Further evidence has been given Il
prove that the frau was tirelessly
sehsming In some fashion or other L
connect her family, through he
daughter. with the nobility and as II
lustrating the moral ideas obtaining
- Every Woman