The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-12-09
Comes to Visit in Country
Where His Relatives Are
Well Known.
~, IA MAnauIsE DE Fo>TENoY.

Ut IN hAN0 ISL III ~
r. RINcE sTANIsLAs suLAoNNS i\i'
- who arrived from Europe IN
4 New York after an extremely
stormy Massage across the Atlantic
on board the kronprinzessin Cecehe
last week. and has been staying at
the Hotel AstOr. bears name thdt
is tolerablv familiar in this countiS'
For his fathers elder brothers. the
Princes Alfred and Alexander Suiko"-
Xxi. as well as two OF their sisters
we're born in the United states. AZ
place called New Bremen. y. Y, ~hSI
their father that l. TO say, the grand
father of Prince Stanislas SulkowsK''
now here spent q number OF years
indeed. during the past decade nave
received numbers Of letters Aioi"
readers some Of them wen known
LAWYERS asking for information about
the late Prince Louis Sulkowski. Duke
Of Bielitz. who lived al New Bremen
from 1919 until 1858
With regard to the reasons whicn
prompted SO enormously rich a nooie'
of such lofty rank as the late Prince
Louis Sulkowski. 10 bury himself Tor
a number of years in the small town
OF New Bremen, y. Y. ! can only say
that his departure from Austria for
the United States followed shocking
tragedy. II was one OF the darkest
that ever sullied the annals of an IL
lustrious family. II was nothing more
nor less than the murder under the
most atrocious circumstances Of the
mother of Prince Louis. She was as
sassinated one March night at the
rurstenhon. now the leading hotel
of the town OF Mylowitz. in Northern
Austria. but formerly the ancestral
home of the Sulkowskis II was proved
that the actual deed was done by
peasants, who were able 70 effect their
escape to America, but all the evidence
went TO show. in the most conclusive
manner. that one of the unfortunate
woman's near reiatives-certa not
Prince L,ouis-was responsible for the
crime
1t is understood that Prince LOUIS
came TO this country. partly Tor
change OF scene. and partly in the
hope of being able TO run down his
mothers murderers. lie left behind
him his wife and mis- eldest boy. the
present Prince Joseph SulkowskL
Duke of Bielitz.
Over here he became infatuated oy
a Characterization woman OF the
name of Marie Gomporle- and within
a month of receiving the news OF the
death of his first wife. born Baroness
Anna Won Dietrich, he married Marie
CIomporle who presented him not long
afterwards with a daughter. followed
ry another girl, and by two sons. all
born at New Bremen. Nothing was
known abroad of the existence OF this
second wife. and OF his American born
children until his return to Europe In
1860. and the editions of the Almanach
de Gotha that appeared during the
previous decade contain no mention
OF his remarriage
on his return to Europe be lived
for time in Switzerland, where
Prince Stanislas's father was born. at
Horseback. and after that in his home
town of Bielitz. where all OF his
Younger children first saw the light
II is owing to the fact that Marie
GomporIe was of bourgeois instead
of noble birth. that her grandson.
Prince Stanislas Sulkowski. although
lieutenant of the Second regiment
of Austrian Dragons. is excluded
from the enjoyment of that titular
Office of chamberlain which carries
with II the entree to the court or
Vienna. and which Is the birthright
of every Austrian noble who can show
an exclusively bIue-blooded ancestry
for four generations back on both
sides OF the house
Prince Stanislas is q younger SON or
his father, who is himself a younger
son. and a half brother of Prince Jo-
seph. Duke OF Bielitz in whose eccen-
tric hands nearly all the great wealth