New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12

The ENJOYS pretensions excited con-
siderable amount OF Indignation, both in
the Swedish press and the Stockholm
legislature. The latter appointed
committee OF its members 10 investigate
and make a report on the matter. Inc
report, after due inquiry. was drawn UP
by Deputies Mankalt and Nehr, and en-
bodied the entire story OF Nine. de Ia
Brache's birth, education. her relation
ship To car Alexander |, the payments
made by him and his brother Nicholas on
her account and the secret treaty con-
cluded in the first place between Emperor
Alexander and Charles XIV and renewed
bv Oscar | and Car Nicholas /. When
this was submitted TO the Minister OF
Foreign Affairs he declared the facts
contained in the report 10 be "substan-
TALLY correct" There the matter was
allowed to rest for a time, until revived
by Nine. de la Braches grandson. Gustav
Johansen. o.,
With regard 10 the missing millions, II
is probable that the second moiety was
included In the huge fortune bequeathed
by Charles XIV OF Sweden to his only
acknowledged to be the weslthiest woman
i'm her own right in all Europe; at any
rate. among the reigning families. With
regard 10 the other moiety, namely, the
100000 crowns received from Alexander
! by the first of the Bernadotte rulers OF
Sweden, it 1. in. all likelihood still hidden
away-lost, In fact-in the maze OF vaults
under the royal palace OF Stockholm.
Charles XIV. who was always a terri
bly, close listed man. developed in his old
age an extraordinary degree of avsrice
and mserliness. which was attributed by
unkind people TO his Pyrennean peasant
ancestry. This miserlness developed with
advancing years into positive mania
and was one OF the forms of the unbal-
anced reason which ultimately neces-
stated the appointment of his son. after
ward Oscar |, as Regent. IL is known
that he had managed to amass in his
earlier years an altogether colossal fort
me. much of IT by means of plumber and
by the imposition of crushing war I'M
IDENTITIES upon prosperous cities, as the
most rapacious commander OF the French
armies which swept all over Europe.
After establishing himself In Sweden he
still further increased the wealth thus
obtained by economy and by shrewd in
vestments. especially In the period imme-
dately following the overthrow of the
Napoieonic Empire. There has never been
any evidence in support OF the rumor that
he squandcred any OF this money upon
his eXecrated favorite. Masnus Brahe.
lie certainly did not waste 1t upon his
children. nor upon his charming little
French wife. Queen Desiree. daughter OF
the Marseiles stock broker. Francois
Clary. and whom he was forever re-
preaching with her bourgeois origin, for
getful Of his own peasant parentage. that
he had stood on guard as A common SOL
der on duty at the foot OF the scanold
at the execution of King Louis XVI, on
what is now the Place de la Concorde. in
Paris, and that on his right forearm were
tatooed a couple OF Phryglan caps, as the
emblem of the Revolution OF 1898. with
below the words, Death to all Kings
and Tyrants,"
II Is generally believed that since not a
trace OF all his money and treasure was
found at his death IL was walled up by
him in one of the thousands of vaulted
chambers which extend In several stories