The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-19
LORD DUNSANY ADDS
TO GALLANT RECORD

les Interested. and the tribunal was ex-
pected 20 accept the testimony as proof
rosiiiv2 of death at the time stated.
While the court found for the peti :
TONER. II very wisely declined 10 state
now Tar II had been Influenced by this
extremely exceptional and unusual Kind
Of legal proof
Although It Is not often that a court
OF Justice has 10 deal with a question
OF spooks, | can recall several recent
uses IN which supernatural visitors
1'"'c prominently Inquired. One was the
famous case where Mr.. Scott Hail who
purchased Gunner Hall from the Earl
81 ,Ab!ngdon. brought suit for the an
hulment of the sale for the alleged
reason that he had bought Cumnor
tinli on tho express understanding thai
the ghost OF Amy Robsart walked.
.nere regularly. and as he had waited
TWO years without seeing her. ne CON
sldered that he had been done" or
course the court declined to take cog
niZance of Mr.. Hairs allegations. and
,e,.l ca me case against him. There
iora Ny. Scott Hall had 10 be contentcd
WIN Gunner Han minus 4 ghost
VI! tn" other hand. the well known
DDnnsiish playwright and poet. stephen
iahdiord' who complained that Phillips
had dcprcciatcd the value Of his house
n now one. By saying that ii is haunted
as thesc Visitations are traditionally
SUPPOSED 10 be tho result OF some
tragedy. structure recently erected
ana so soon haunted" must ncccssnr
ny be the scene of Il recent, and there
Tore vulgar and commonplace. crime
Wi,a no romance TO recommend 1t. All
ptrsons. superstitious and otherwise
would object to live in such a house
tho landlord contcnded.
The death. from scarlet fever. Of the
Eighteen year old son OF Prime Unnry
%XNfI. Of Rcuss renders IL onnort,,n!.
Tor me to nlludo once moro to the nuz-
ziing way In which Princes OF Reuse
are named and numbered especially
when II is mentioned that the youth
NLlll. OF Rcuss. The interval Of fif-
teen numbers between father and son
uossN not mean that the younger man
had nftcen elder brothers. but that
all the male members OF his branch
cousins. etc. arc numbered in the order
OF their birth. They ali bear the name
or Henry. followed BY "A tomun num-
aral. The custom dates from the NJ
In 1901 each OF the two houses
Reuss -Greiz and Reuss-Gera. started
out with fresh series OF numbers. The
elder branch. Reuss- GrciZ. has not been
very prolific. Therefore the numbering
has gone on in unbroken sequences.
the last Of the line being Prince Henry
nv. But the younger branch. Reuss-
Gtra, OF which Prince Henry NNNIJ
Is the head, has been 50 numerous
that special rub, had to be made
10 beGin fresh series of numbers
with each century. There We're no less
than Iorty-seven Princes Henry OF
ss-Gera born in the nineteenth
century. the two sons OF Prince Henry
NSVll. being numbered. respectively,
Mill and XIV. These numbers are
not consecutive. for tho reason that
Henry MIN. is cousin. The son of
Prince Henry NXXIV., horn in 1910,
started n new set OF numbers. being
Prince Henry j. The name thus select
cd and adhered to all by all tho malo
members of the house is in memory
of Emperor Henry VI. OIL Germany, who
conferred upon the family their soycr-
eighty, seven centuries ago.
copyright, 1917. by the Brentwood
Company