| Show PRINCE AND PAUPER Hatzfeldt i in a Sea of Financial Troubles fR GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HDf May Sho Never Find Him Twonld Give IU Pain to 3Ieet Again the Girl Ho Left Behind Him Special Tire HERALD Examiner Cable BERLIN March HOne or two artfully written paragraphs in the social announcc jfeents of the newspapers give information tbat Prince Hatzfeldt and his princess Clara Huntington may be expected here shortly There is not the slightest social flutter over the news In fact the chances of the prince and princess getting any recognition at all in court circles are as we say in America very slim We have been hearing some queer stories here for the past few weeks about the princes heavy losses at the Cercle in Paris We hear also that he received the cut direct from Count Munster at a reception given by Minister Whitelaw Reid This snub t the prince was more marked because Count Munster spoke for some minutes with Princess Hatzfeldt and observed afterwards after-wards to a mutual friend that he admired her very much Even i nothingelso were iii the way Prince Franzs early career in Berlin his wildness and queer ways of raising money would mitigate against the socal aspirations of the princess I is possible this might hove been forgiven if since his marriage ho had acted like a man and boldly faced his creditors instead of resorting to petty subterfuges I the prince comes back hero there is likely t be some trouble about scaling his debts He is heir to the largest estate of the Furstcnbergs and t the millions of his mother but that lady who is so proud of her great descent is none too proud that the American millionaire fatherinlaw should pay for his daughters title by settling set-tling the princes debts Mr Huntington has written to some of the creditors stating that ho was willing to pay a proportion of the debt but he thought it only right that Hatzfedts rich parents should do the same Whether they will go so far as to allow the princes creditors t force him ymto a bankruptcy court remains t be seen jL A few days ago Baron Egbert Fursten erg a friend of the prince who indorsed his promissory notes was in Berlin The baron said the prince had avoided all attempts at-tempts for a reckoning of his accounts and made the following assertions I wish to correct a misstatement said he which Prince Hatzfeldt made sometime some-time ago He claimed that I had received most of the money raised on the promis sory notes and instead him owing me I was indebted to him for a large amount I ho said that he simply lied I care less about receiving my money than about disproving dis-proving the falsehoods which not alone Prince Hatzfeldt but his parents have spread regarding my connection with him Tho whole family have acted in a vile manner Gniedertrachlib i the word the baron used I When I first went t old Prince Hatzfeldt he promised me that these notes should be paid out of capital which was laid aside for the benefit of his brother Count Hatzfeldt German ambassador to London but that money was afterwards spirited out of Germany and deposited in Switzerland under another name so it cant be touched Franz Hatzfeldt and I were intimate friends He came to me and asked me to sign some promissory notes for him They were blank and he said he would fill them out for 30000 gulden In fact he made them for 26000 I was merely a friendly accommodation I thought I never imagined that a son of Hatzfeldt would not meet his obligations I did not have a pfennig of the money nor did I owe Hatzfeldt any money at the time CjlNftenvards we owned some horses to ether Hatzfeldt managed them but would never give me an accounting hough I frequently asked for one When I the crash came he lied and I had to face the music I paid from 50 to 70 per cent on these notes nearly four hundred thousand thou-sand marks Hatzfeldts parents first promised to pay them and then declined on the ground that I was indebted to their son This they knew to be false I wrote to Hatz eldt time and again for an account of the indebtedness but he would never answer I loaned him n cash 15000 marks and 9000 the horses won I have figured up carefully care-fully what the expenses were and line they amounted to but 45000 marks so that at most I owe him 2o000 marks to offset his indebtedness to me of 400000 marks I have brought suit against him and he has never alleged in court that I was in lobted to him He has by all sorts or sub Mrfugcs delayed the finding of a judg nnmt He avoided the service of any payers When I sued him in Berlin he claimed have a residence elsewhere and used other legal quibbles When after three years squabbling the courts decided in my favor he allowed judgment to be rendered by default This gave him a chance of reopening the case and securing another long continuance Not once did he assert in court that I owed him money Other creditors of the prince here are also inlulging in some sharp talk about him For a long time he put them off with promises that he would settle with them i he succeeded in making a rich marriage I Since his affiliation with the Huntington millions almost any proposal ho chose to make would have been accepted but he has made none His creditors arc exceedingly angry at his refusal t pay the slightest attention t their letters and the talk they are indulging in will to say the leat seriously retard any social aspirations the princess may have in the land of her titled Ciusbands birth The Girl lie Left Behind Him Special to THE HERALD Examiner Cable PARIS March 14 Jeanne DAilemagne the young woman who enjoyed Prince Hatzfeldts favors in the days of his bachelorhood and who went to London intending in-tending to make a scene at his wedding has been up before the Paris civil tribunal at the suit of a lingerie in Rue de 13 Paix The amount claimed as well as the extravagance vsgance shown in various items are eloquent elo-quent against the morality of the prince who without having a penny of his own could encourage a woman in such reckless expenditure The bill dates from ISSb during which period the young woman wa under the protection of the present 1u band of Huntingtons daughter and amounts t 19844 francs The total includes in-cludes night shirts trimmed with valenci canes at 815 each other garments at L each pink green garters 4 each petticoat petti-coat at SSO red silk dress at 300 a green velvet at 200 perfumed satchels 30 each pair of sheets incrusted with old lacel000 francs pillows to match BOO francs a snrimp colored quilt at 250 francs and so on This it appears is onlj one of a whole series of bills whichaMmo DAilemagne owes t tradesmen of Rue del a Paix and which were incurred with the knowledge of the prince The amount she refused to pay alleging that the price were exhorbitant The matter was referred re-ferred t an expert attache t the curt 9nhts report i a curious one He stated X ttfat the goods though certainly very high jpricea were well worth the money and only allows a reduction of 1000 francs on f the total claimed Referring t the shrimo j I icolored quilt he says Defendant l evidently aspired to having the bed of a cal princess She has been condemned I to pay the amount and people are wondering wonder-ing in Paris whether the prince will allow prnce some other man to pay for things which were bought at the time he was responsible I responsi-ble for the expenses of this person |
