New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-11
CONNECTS DEAD TO WORLD
Dozen in England Can Never
Recover Liberty.


[Conyrisht. 1913, By the Brentwood Company.
Among the military and naval convicts
at Lewes. in Sussex, England, there are
a dozen men who. no matter how excel
lent their conduct, will never recover Their
liberty. differing in this respect from the
ordinary life term convicts. who usually
receive tickets-of-leave-that is to say.
parole-after twenty-one years. One OF
the reasons for this is that they have
been officially reported as dead They
consist of five officers and seven nom
commissioned officers and privates. not Of
the regular army. nor even OF the militia
or yeomanry. but OF the irregular levies
raised In South Africa during the Boer
war. thirteen years ago. They were
caught aiding the enemy 10 smuggle am
munition through the British lines
The sentence of the court martial CON-
demning them 10 he shot was committed
BY Field Marshal Lord Roberts 10 life inn
prisonment At the same time he caused
their names to be inserted in the ON
cial returns as having succumbed to en-
teric fever.
After Lord Roberts had turned over the
command in chief to Kitchener the lat
ter had TO deal with batch OF similar
cases, three OF the culprits being DESERT
ers who had been captured fighting In
the Boer ranks. Kitchener was less mer-
ciful than Roberts. He confirmed the de-
cree OF the court martial and had them
shot That their relatives might be spared
the odium Of their disgrace he caused
their deaths to be officially reported as
due to enteric fever.
Ono Sulkowski an Exile.
The grandfather OF Prince Stanislas
Sulkowsk OF Austria, who recently
married Miss Marie Louise Freese, NJ
Los Angeles. the late Prince Louis
Sulkowsk. Duke Of Bielitz. lived at New
Bremen. \. Y, from ls49 TO 1880 With
regard to the reasons which prompted SO
enormously rich noble as the late Prince
Louis to bury himself for number OF,
years in a small New York town. l can
only say that his departure from Austria
for the United States followed a shock
ing tragedy. II was one of the darkest
that ever sullied the annals Of an Illus
trious family. being nothing more nor
less than the murder under the most
atrocious circumstances OF the mother OF
Prince Louis. She was assassinated one
March night at the Ftirstenhof. now the
leading hotel OF the town of Mylowitz. In
Northeastern Austria, but formerly the
ancestral home OF the SulkoVskis. IL was
proved that the actual deed was done b.
peasants. who were able 10 effect their
escape 10 America. but IL was said that
one Of the unfortunate woman's near rel
atives was responsible for the crime.
Prince Louis left behind him, on quit
ting Europe hts eldest boy. the present
Prince Joseph Sulkowski. Duke OF Bielitz
In this country Prince Louis became in
fatuated with a German woman, OF me
name OF Marie Gomperle, and within a
month Of receiving the news Of the death
in Austria OF his hrst wife, born Baroness
Anna Won Dietrich. he married Marie
Gomperle, who presented him not long
aftcrward with a daughter. followed Dy
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, about le',
and the editions Of the "Almanach de
Gotha" that appeared during the pre-
vious decade contain no mention OF his
remarriage.
Sulkowski Far>from Rich.
Prince stanislas, who has just married