The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns

Will the famous white lady of the
Palace of Baireuth soon walk? This
is the question which now occurs to
the mind of the student of history.
For this apparition, the banshee of
the house of Hohenzollern, is sup
posed to walk through the halls of
the castle of the ancient home of the
present Emperor of Germany, who is
also the King of Prussia, writes
correspondent of the Washington
Star.
The family ghost of Emperor Will
liam belonged to the royal family of
Prussia when they reigned under the
title of the Margraves of Branden-
burg, and has come down from faith
er to son. 1t is believed that the
White Lady ambles about in the
night watches when there is a death
or calamity about to happen to the
Hohenzollerns, and that she thus
foretells any coming disaster.
The apparition is described as
tall feminine figure, clothed in white,
with black veil concealing her face
and breast. Behind this veil CLOVIS
the dim outline of a beautiful but
sad face, whose expression is one of
extreme pain. The upper part of her
slender form is covered with a pelisse
or outer cloak of dark fur.
The story told of the White Lady
is that she was the beautiful Count
ess Cunigunda of P1assenburg, and in
her early youth was obliged by I'M
kind parents to wed the ancient
count, with whom she lived unhap-
PLY but a few years The old Count
died, leaving his charming widow,
two children, girls, and the estates
of Arlamunde and Won Plassenburg,
which lands made the widow one of
the richest women in that part of the
country.
The widow was fond of life and
became one of the gayest spirits in
the noble society of the day. Among
the distinguished men of her ac-
quaintance was the Burgrave of Nu
remburg, who was called albert the
Handsome. German people loved
him, the young women of the nobil-
ity did the same and much was made
by all over this ancestor of the pres
ent German Emperor.
But the Burgrave did not respond
to the affection of the Countess, for
his heart was captive of the charms
of the beautiful Beatrice of Hainalt,
and to her he became engaged. The
Countess, unaware of the way his
feelings leaned, asked him to marry
her. She said she could place in his
hands the fair lands of Plassenburg
as we'll as Arlamunde, but the Bur
grave smiled and replied that he
would like to marry her were it not
for two pairs of eyes in existence.
This remark meant his parents, |
who were much opposed to the fair
Countess, but Cunigunda understood |
it as meaning the pair of eyes of her
two young daughters, that they stood |
in the way of the fulfllment of her
wish to wed Albert.
So one night she crept into the
chamber where the girls lay asleep
and with a long gold-jeweled pin,
which was a gift from Albert, the
unnatural mother pierced the brains |
of her children; in the morning they |
were found dead in bed without any !
mark of violence and it was thought |
thcy had died of apoplexy.
Cunigunda sent for Albert and |
when he came told him that the two
pairs of eyes no longer stood in his !
way, that for his love she had de- !
stroyed her two children. Recoiling |
with horror Albert seized the muir |
deress and dragged her down into
her own dungeon, the door of which !
he locked She was tried and con-
uemueu IU uedJH anu HeI eAeCuLlOH
took place in the very chamber in
which she had killed the two girls
and in the presence of the Burgrave
himself
But before she placed her head
on the block Cunigunda raised her
arms and swore that in death she
would pursue A1bert's family. that
whenever any one of them we're to
die she would come as a warning
and be present, Just as the Burgrave