The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-31
OF COURT
AGAINST JOHANSSEN

the.o letters. when lis insisted upoi.
her surIenderinS TO him. he guaranteed
To pay her AN snnuiiS pending tle dis-
covcry OF the missing millions.
This annuity was paid regularly u.
the swedish government tnroughoEI
his reign. and during that OF has soi
and successor. Charles Nv. and aisv
during the first eight years Of the
reign of the late KING Oscar IL, unit!
Anna's death Ia 1873.
The fact that an arrangement OF thi2
tho large annuity PAID from the Swcd-
ish treasury TO Nine. de la ErachS
from 1874 until 1872 while tho ctrcum-
stance tina, the fund established Tor
ooniidcd to Charles XIV. should have
been round missing on the iatters
death. Is easy TO unds!stand. As have
old age developed the most intense
miseriiness. He was known to have
amassed colossal fortune. much OF
II By means of plumber. and by the i'm
position OF crushing war indemnitics
on CSrinan cfties. while in command Of
the Napolconic armies as Marshal
Bernadotte. prior to becoming Crown
prince OF Sweden.
OF all this treasure. which was Ger
tainly never spent. squandered. or 9TH
erwisc disposed OF. not u trace was t.
he found ON his demise, and is general
MIN In one of the thousand or So
vaulted chambers beneath the Palace
OF Stockholm. The palace is built on
the site of half a dozen earlier royal
ahodes But the vaults and foundations
date back for over thousand years
and the subterrancan portion OF the
palace Is of such immense area ana
vast extent that 1t has never been
thoroughly explored. Indeed chains
are stretched along the walls of those
portcns Of the vaults that are used.
In order 10 prevent any one from get
ting lost below ground. 1t Is believes
that somewhere In those vaults all the
money and the Jewels Of tho first OF
the Bernadotte Kings of Sweden are
walled up But every attempt to dis
cover the hiding place has met with
failure.
1t is probable that the 5000, 600
crowns given by Emperor Alexander
I 10 the bene1t OF his niece, Nine de la
brache, are there, along with the 9TH
er treasures Of Charles XIV.
Deputy Johanssen's suit against the
present King OF sweden. and against
was not for the money. but for the
letters which his grandmother. Nine
DC Ia Brache. surrendered to Oscar L.
~ u! consideration Of tho annuity which
she received until her death. NJ Hill
debrandt. keeper OF the royal archives,
made sworn declaration to the effect
that he had been unable to. find any
strength of his declaration, the plain
tiff was non-sulted. Enasmuch, how
ever. as Johansson produced CORE
Spohuence 10 snow that the missing
letters were surrendered TO Oscar T.
In lS44. and was also able to prove
that the annuity paid for SO many
years to his grandmother. Nine. de liz
Brache. by the national treasury way
granted in consideration OF her sur
render of the letters. 1t is clear that
they must at one time or another have
been in existence. Consequently, the
that Deputy Johanssen has not re-
ceivcd justice. In fact so strong Is
this impression. and so conclusive the
testimony that the present reigning
house Of Sweden was Entrusted carly In
the last century with II fund for the
benefit OF Anna de In Brachc. that I'm
spite of the adverse decision Of the
supreme Court OF Sweden, IL is hopeu
that its reigning house will, from mo-
tivcs of policy and justice. effect some
sort Of financial compromise with her
grandson and heir. Deputy Johanssen.
Copyright. 1911, BY the Brentwood
ComISanvS