Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-16
Political and Social News by Cable and Correspondence from the Old Wo
WREAKS A BRUTAL REVENGE
Austrian Noncommissioned Officer
Shocks Army.
HUNGARIAN COUNTS IN REAL DUEL
Failing to wound Each other with
Pistols, They Fight Fiercely
with Cavalry swords I'm
til One Falls,
BY EMIL ANDRAssY.

VIENNA. April 15.--(special to the BeeD
An Austrian sergeant named Rudolf and a
recruit are in prison charged with an act
OF extraordinary brutality. The sergeant
was informed by his wife that sentinel
named Jessenovitch had peeped into their
bed room
The sergeant ordered a recruit to relieve
Jessenovitch and then tie him to a tree
giving instructions that Jessenovitch was
to be shot if he attempted to escape
The soldier did attempt to free himself
and the recruit promptly shot him, in
fl!cting a fatal wound. The sergeant heard
the shot while he was in bed, but took
no notice ard It was six o'clock next
morning before he dying man was found
Mortally wounded he hung bound to the
tree the greater part of the night
HungarIans In Real Duel.
Two Hungarian counts are in serious
condition from wounds inflicted in duel
when they met near Vienna on Sunday.
Pistols were first used, three shots being
exchanged without effect. The two men
dropping their pistols, rushed together with
heavy cavalry swords. One of the counts
sustained a wound across his head that
exposed the skull before the seconds could
separate them.
Yellow Car Unlucky.
Two lovers who had selected a yellow
motor car for an eopement had their
romance undone as they were nearing the
border of Servia and are now attributlng
their undoing to the color of the car. The
other day a yellow motor car-not that OF
the lovers--was running along "a country
road in the komitat of Pressburg in Hun
at hat
ceeded the legal limit, when it overturned
cart. The driver was badly hurt, but
the motorists made good their escape. The
police set the telegraph in motion and gave
the police all along the road to Budapest
a description of the car Meanwhile, the
lovers, young man and a lady of rare
beauty, had escaped from Vienna in a
yellow car, identical in appearance with
that wanted by the police. The lovers
were Fastening to cross the frontier to
escape the pursuit of the lady's husband
and reached Budapest in safety
Excited Suspicion.
Here the color OF the car excited sus-
piclon, and the lovers were arrested, al
though they stoutly denied having had
any accident The car was impounded and
they were detained. The Pressburg police,
meanwhile succeeded IN discovering the
motorists who had caused the accident, ar
rested their chauffeur and kept the car.
The lovers were then allowed to proceed,
but had no sooner done so than the police
received a telegram from Vienna announc-
ing that the wife of well known Vienna
merchant had left for Belgrade in the com
pany of young NAH in a yellow motor
car. The fugitves were stopped again and
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escorted back to Vienna by a constable,
while the young man was detained in
Pressburg to reflect upon the length of
the arm Of coincidence.
Mime. JOISai Wants Pension.
Maurus Jokai, the famous Hungarian
novelist. left his widow without provision
or an income and she has appealed for a
government pension in return for all manu-
scripts, busts and portraits of her husband
I'm her possession, which she offers to the
National museum.
Women in the PrOfessiOns.
Women are attaining distinction in the
different professional lines in Austria.
There are at present eighty lady doctors
practicing in the country. AS might be ex-
pected, there are more in Vienna than in
any other town. the capital providing more
or less adequate careers for thirty-nine
Like their sisters in this country, they
find their occupation principally in the
treatment of the diseases of women and