The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-09-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

AUSTRIAN WILL CASE.  The tragic death of Countess George Wahlstein, rrincess Metternich's second daughter, who fell dead from her chair in front of her toilet table, is, telegraphs the Daily Neu, Vienna correspondent, probably fresh in the minds of the English public. Three months later Count George Waldstein, her husband, died of a broken heart, it was said, on account of the untimely death of his young wife. A trial has now commenced in Prague, which is to decide to whom the inillions left by Count Wald. stein are to go. Two of the late Count's managers are accused of having used undue influence upon their master to induee him to give them many hundred thousand florins and to put them in Itis will. The first will made by the Count was all in favour of his wife, but a large nember of codicils were added for the evintualiry of her dying b.fore him, and these will the property almost entirely ta his dependents. The form of the codicils is queer. One gives the men in question first their salary for one year, while in another th. Count br•que,ths to them 20 times that amount. In case the te,tat..r's wife should die before him, the city of Vienna is to be the Count's heir, and if it declines, then the hospital at Dux in Bohemia is entitled to the prre pesty. The sums loft to the men in the Count'i employ were so great that the city of Vienna saw fit to refuse the inheritance. The will never once mentions the Count's mother, nor his sister Countest Thun, nor his orphan nephew. It was when these persons came forward with their claims that the &at doubts arose as to whether the deceased Count was in his right mind when he made his will, and whether he had acted under the influence oh selfish persons After the Count's death the free gifts and part of the willed money was paid to the men in his employ-342,400 florins Cr Joseph Weinelt, 99,000 florins to Gustav Kleiderfer, and 26,600 florins to Heinrich Weinelt, a total amounting to nearly half a million. These men had only been a few years in the Count's service. It was a well-known fact that Count Cenrge Waldstein was addicted to drink, cognac and sherry being the only fluids he took. All the doeteo, who attended the Count say the illness from which ho died—a disease of the liver—was caused by excessive drink. The Count's servants after his death managed to keep all the relations aloof, and seemed to have forged telegrams ordering mothers and sisters to stay away, and not even to attend the funeral. Some of the spurious telegrams were sign,d in the Count's name,soine in the physicians', souse in that of the Catholic priest, who was with the Count to the last. The trial has not yet got further than the reading of the indictment, but it will no doubt lead to extraordinme intuit&  An extraordinary outrage is reported from Tra• more, near Waterford. A man named Woods, who returned recently from America, desired to erect a monument to his deceased relatives in the churchyard. The stone was made by a Waterford firm. aut when taken by them to the churchyard the nsrish priest, it is alleged, objected to its erectitn, 311 the ground that the grave had not been dis. ,urbed for many years. The objection was at length waived, and the stone arected. On Saturday more mg it was found that the monument,foundation an., ill, had been taken away, and no trace of them ho' vet been discovered. On Monday a married woman named Elizabeth Carter, of Strood, near Rochester, committed suicide by hanging herself to the baluttrado of the stairease in her own house. The deceased's husband was the first to discover what had happened. Mrs. Carter was 46 years of age, and domestic VI 01" f leg are said to have caused her rash act.  On Monday morning a young man, apparently about 26, committed suicide at Trois Rocks, Sown Shields, by blowing out his brains. When the hos was discovered a five-chambered revolver was ail grasped in the right hand, and examination show, e that three of the chaniberd had been recently fir. Prow lett...rs found in the yo ma is poa csi.,iit is believed he is Henry Roi.inson, of Hatesk• ad. The police are making inquiries.  Mr. Frederic Harrison's new book, "A Relic of the Put: Memorials of Sutton Place, Guildford," will be a quarto, illustrated by photogravures. A new novel by Mrs. Alexander, author of "The Wooing o"t," is about to be published by Messrs. Cas,ell and Company, under the title of "The Snare of the Fowler."  Mr. Stopford A. Brooke's "History of Early English Literature " will be in two volumes, and is alpounced as "a history of English poetry horn it. Inhaling to the accession of King Elfred."