Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-03
DUTCH DARKY" HAS
 WILD, WEIRD TALE
Eugene Caldwell. Self-AIIeged Abys- Sinian Prince, Tells, With German
 Accept. Sad Story of His Life.


 And, for a negro, with German ac- cent, the Latin pronunciation jsn't half bad. But Convict No 9143 has V not exhausted his vocabulary of walls t yet. He can switch into the French c shrug his shoulders and mean, He I las le temps, An mon iDieu," or bub- I ble in German "Ach der uhr, ach der veg One of two things is true of Con vict 9143, sentenced in 1909 for horse stealing as Eugene Caldwell, and oth- erwise known as Prince something fn Aabioguttunal unpronounceabIe Hot tentot. Either he is a polished cos mopolitan, learned in the lore of the Orient and Occident, or he has Baron | Munchausen gaspmg for breath-and lies. And the fact that he is far too shrewd to contradict his story in n single detail, no matter how seem ingly absurd it may be, makes the truth concerning him matter of spec ulation.
 Number 1943 is a small negro, about five feet short, with an unusu- ally open and intelligent face. He speaks with German accent, hnd with French shrugs and eyebrow movements. Also he makes violent and continual gestures with his hands d while talking. Beyond the fact that M hp ninEpI mn obCut Inf < one morning last fall. possessed of A somebody else's horse and clad in 8 little more than autumnal sunshine. and as a consequence Of h s inability to account for the preetuce of the 7 horse and the absence of the clothes to the satisfaction of the court, was tried and sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary for theft of the aforesaid horse, nothing concerning him can be definitely verified. He claims fluency ;n twenty-two lan- suages. He has been tested in Latin German, Hebrew, French and Spanish and "came back" smilingly.
 "Pam" Was Il Jolly Old SouL
 t According to himself, the "Prince'' vas born in Hamburg, Germany. in he court of the kaiser. Still, ac~ 'ording to h'msel'. he $ a son of Iuntahchoth Pumauhwoo, tribal ing of Abyssina. dethroned and anished for mischievous habit Of sc4ling the tops off his subjects sads-meaning no harm, of course, 1t making himself object onable th his jokes. ' 1t seems that Queen Victoria heard
 the birth and marked the young rince" for her own. to have and hold and uphold the honor of Eng nd under foreign skies Therefore youngster was taken at the age 13 years and placed in a universi-
 in Sydney Australia, emerging #1e two years later with a baehe- se $ degree, Courses in Palestine, NV Amsterdam Copenhagen, Par $
 Nagasah followed and at each pol the prince picked up an addi-
 1al language or two. After 13 . Is service in the kings escort the nce' mustered out of the Eng
 service at Dublin.
 len he enlisted under the tri- of Germany, captain of lancers ne kaiser's guard. Also the edu-
 n kept up. He studied in the
 eIsity of Berlin, of Hamburg, of
 ma and was q student of navi- .. n in Heidelberg a member of
 ohannes Chapphaugh, the Wh te Corps.
 CT he again conferred the hon his sword and service upon Eng ! .l entering the fore gn service as
 ambassador with Lord George
 ell, from whom he takes his
 h name, to the United States a recommendation of Lord
 :, his excelleacy President
 welt, then governor of New
 invited the Abyss nian to New
 City to lecture. From New ae went to Detroit. from De-
 Louisville, thence to Pine A where the even tenor of his
 way struck 8 snag.
 Hist. the Black Hand.
 the Black Hand followed hin Ss etroit, seeking valuable papers
 possession At Pine Bluff jus the lecture. two Italian gen sF made the offer of sociahl, IS evenfn'." The prince ae, su md relates that when he cam,
 = $. ! ' 5 :: :: ]. :: :: <. ; ]. <. ]: ]: : x F. Elf the next morning he wa f in himself and shedow cas fatal horse wandering abou hity. The son and heir C hoth Pumeuhwoo. king ( a, held no terIors for tn
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