New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-30
Former Princess Held on Arrival
Here by immigration Officials
Society Women Withdraw Patronesses OF Lectures
Scheduled To Be Given by One-lime Prisoner
and Friend of Cecil Rhodes

facts Of the case. He added that Mrs
| Kolb would have to go through the
same formalities as hundreds OF others
and would have the right OF appeal 10
tho Secretary Of Labor if the board oil
special inquiry ordered her deportation
The Princess Catherine Radzlwlll'
who is ffty-nine. is of Polish origin;
She was born Countess Rzewuska anu
is the daughter Of Countess kzewuS-
ka. whose maiden name was DachkoH l.
and who was married at the age OF NJ
teen 10 the count. who was thlrty-hNe
years her senior.
The princess herself was married
when very young to Prince Wilhelm
Radziwil. by whom she had three ehlI-
dren. ono Of whom is the Princess
Butcher ,;.L,
When Cecil Rhodes was at the helgnnt
If his career the Princess RacziwliI
won't 10 London from 81. Petersburg 10
win the heart of the Napoleon OF the
/ Cane" who was regarded as woman
later. A dinner was arranged IN her
honor and there she met him. she gave
( him, an antique Russian medal that ne
admired. and thereafter they became
fast friends and met frequently NEeh
IL became apparent that the princess
lad succeeded in exercising CONSIDER
able sway over him Rhodes started LOT
South Africa. The princess hrst re-,
turned to St. Petersburg, then fastened
TO Paris. and there sold Tor ssO,Ooo
quantity Of jewels worth Sl9O,OOO.
With these funds she sailed TOT cape
I Town. On her arrival she lound
Rhodes had recovered from his lnlat,,
ration and was then anxious TO end
what he regarded as an insurmountaoIe
obstacle to his ambition.
Arrested in 1902
Early in 1902 the Princess Radzlwill
was arrested on n charge OF having
forged the name of Rhodes TO guam
titv of promissory notes. amounting TO
, 5000 600 When these were shown HIM
he declared that he had never signed
them. but ordered that they be paid.
He was warned that if he ordered pay
ment he would legally be an accomplce
to the crime, and he then refused to
nav them. Rhodes's death occurred
soon after.
The crime Of bribery also was
charged to her, and on this also she
was convicted. 1t was proved IN the
Supreme Court at Cape Town that the
princess had bribed a boy in the employ
of the postoffice to forge a date line on
an alleged cablegram from b. A. Hawks
ley, a lawyer. Of London. .,
The princess was sentenced on April
so. 1902. to two years in the house Of
correction at Cape Town, where her fell
low prisoners were chiefly kafir wom-
en-. After serving almost a year she
was released because of failing health
and good behavior.
According to the advance informa-
ton sent out about the coming of the
princess TO this country, it was stated
that she was Russian subject and
had done much for the exchange Of
French and Russian soldiers captured
by Germany. Her eldest son, accord
ing to the information, was lost in
the present war, fighting for Russia,
and since his death she had devoted
her entire time and money to the
cause of the Russian revolutionists.
Her first lecture, which was sched-
uled to be given at this afternoon at
the Hotel Biltmore, is entitled Per
sonal Experiences at Imperial Courts"