The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-25
DRAMATIC CAREER OF MAN
 WHO IMPERSONATED. PRINCE

Belgrade, December 24. co Especially = With the arrest of a young ex-offieer named Milenko Rajcevic, son of the late Servian chief of police, ease finding its counterpart only in the Tichborne drama is brought to light.
 The arrested man has had some amazing adventures For three years he has travelled the continent, some times as Milan Obrenovtc Christie, the famous outcast, son of the late King Milan of Servia, at other times as Prince George, the notorious ex-heir of the reigning sovereign.
 The drama began five years ago, when, dismissed from the service the prisoner, trading on his remarkable re- semblance to the eX-crown prince George, studiously went into his royal highness' past, made himself acquaiht- ed with his customs, and learned his tdiosyncrasies.
 Having completed this education" he posed as the prince in the remoter parts of Bulgaria, Roumania. and with in Servia itself, always assisted by an aide de camps accomplice named Jonect.
  with rejoicing and began to thrive on mayoral banquets. When the lneVlt- able Announcement came the two made themselves scarce without much ado, and for two years there is blank.
 In 1908 Rajcevic made his reppear- ance with amazing effrontery at Karls- bad where from a leading hotel he is- sued a ukase claiming the Servian throne as Prince de Christe, King Milans only surviving son. and ad- vocating the "wiping out of the mur- derous Karageorgevitches.' As the po- lice were well aware that Milan's son was actually wandering from place to place they made no attempt to check this imposition, believing the case to be genuine
 At the Spa the prince" made the ac- uuaintance of a rich Polish countess considerably his elder, and after lead ing q gay life for several weeks at her expense made off. In Vienna he was next arrested for fraud and expelled from Austrian territory. The most eX- 1raordinary events were drawing near. In Paris the prince" dared to call on ex-Queen Natalie, widow of King Milan. Her majesty could not but re- ceive the man who claims to be her husbands flesh and blood but, unfor- tunately, she took great liking to him into the bargain, giving him money and placing her house at his dis posal
 The "prince" mea Awhile told the most of father, and completely won over the old lady, who is 70. But things were evident ly getting dull again, and now l quote from the official police report: At the end of last year the prisoner was at Biarritz, still posing as King Milans son, and living wholly on misguided people, who welcomed him on that account. In January he was sent to six months hard labor at Genoa for stealing 5O,0U franes worth of lewery, the property Of the daughter of an English peer whom he met at Biarritz and subsequently, on the Ri- vera. The theft was committed while the young lady was dining with Prince .. Raioevic suddenly left the table, on some excuse or other and after rifling the lady's belongings, decamped from the hotel.
 This summer Prince Christie" was 1cted in Sotia at d banquet SlNeifpS sef- eral members of the Bulgarian govern ment, whose hatred of the present. Servian dynastv is. of course, we'll known. The coup which has now led to RajceYic ar rest was the most daring of all. In Bud spest a few days ago ne learned that the real Prince Christie was working In the city an official in a factory.
 It was perhaps only in keeping with his general conduct for the bogus prince 10 resolve to meet the real prince face to face in order to arrange scheme of po-