The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-26

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a. iiNH beEliu, TOT CncAtluE at
cards. in consequence of complaints
iodsed against him, that full imforma-
uon WAS obtained OF the composition
Oh the band: and of its operations.
The Wolff M~ettcrnichs. who arc only
very remotely connected with the
princely house OF Mcttcrnich. and that,
100. through the female line, are an
old Iicssian family, whose patent or
nobility dates back 20 Tie time OF tho
Crusadcs. Gisbert has been the black
sheep OF the house. was forced out Of
me Prussian army on account of ques-
tlonnble financial transactions, and last
year married 2 popular Niennese ac-
tress. Claire Wallentein, who was in
complete ignorance OF her husbands
associations, who had becn foolish
enough TO confdc to him all her money
and her jewels for safe Keeping. and
VIC nude an attempt to commit suicide
Vienna. "
With all this. 1t looks very much as
II Count Wolfr-Metternich would cs-
sane criminal conviction. For his rcla-
Count Wolff ctternich. German am
haasador in London. are very influential,
insist nat he Is mentally unbalanced.
and therefore Irresponsible. and on thls
account have secured his temporary
transfer to the leading lunatlc ASYLUM
at Berlin, for six weeks observation II
Is a iortgone conclusion that he wifi
be pronounced insane. and that while
ne VIII be sent for a term of years TO
some asylum no will escape tho dis
grace of Il criminal conviction and Jail
sentence, which awaits his confnderatcs.
Let me add that the soi-dlsant Baron
korif.k ocniG has on two occasions
come before the civil courts in England:
once as n in a ma rticulariy dts
graceful suit for betrayal, breach of
promise and abandonment. n the
other as witness In q libel suit the
Judges both times ~dcnounclng him from
] the bench as n %scoundrel. ri
\ U CAPTAIN NnWtGn'S nan a too ic p.ci1
known to the police Of New York, and
IT may be remembered thnt Il woman
described as Mis-. Newton" and as his
wife, became involved some years &
In a charge of theft brought against
her by n New York woman living
somewhere on Central Park West, and
whose acquaintance she had made at
Larchmont.
Lady Blonnt. who recently appeared
as witness In a cause cclcbrc In Lon
who has n number Of friends and adj
mirers In this country, some of them
adherents OF a cult of which she is tho
president, and the members of which,
insist that the earth is Nat. On this
ground she has ridiculed the prcten-
sions of both Cook and Peary to have
cord the SSr.h Pole: since. aG-
laid down by the Zetetics, there IS
neither q North nor a south Pole to
discover. The Zetcttcs publish n maya
zine, OF which she is the editor; and
shire land owner, Sir Waller Biount.
The family held the Barony of Ix-
worth, In Suffolk, until Sir william
Biount, Baron OF IXworth, was slain,
fighting under Simon dc Montfort, al
the battle of I.ewes, and had his peer
age In consequence attaintcd by Parlia-
ment. y baronetcy was subsequently
bestowed upon the family, in 1912. by
Charles H.. and Sir walter is the ninti,
holder thereof. a distinguished mem
Der of the family was the late Sir Ed
ward Blount, so long British consul
Great Western Iialiroad of France.
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