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Show IKAISER ADDS GOSTLY KEW CARS TO GARAGE Emperor William Develops Liking Akin to Mania for Handsome New Automobiles DECISION KILLS COUNTESS Lawyer Argues That Woman. Who Seeks to Escheat Boy's Property Prop-erty Is Not Mother. BY MALCOLM CLARKE. Special Cable jo The Tribune. BERLIN; June 10. The kaiser ha? developed de-veloped what borders on s. mania for automobile. au-tomobile. Ke recently added ncx cars to hisutb "stable." It takes fifty-nine meno run and repair the cars. The Emperor William Is usually repre-eaed repre-eaed Etern and rigid and has the repu-- ration of being a rigid disciplinarian. But Inm there Is another side of his character In ttjj which he shows himself as a joker. On W one occasion he visited a cadet school EM at the appointed hour for work and no I I teacher had put In an appearance. Tired of waiting, the emperor began to con- duct the lesson himself and upon the a arrival of the flurried schoolmaster said 0 nothing, but -quietly left the building. ' The teacher regarded, his dismissal as certain, and was- much alarmed when some time after a messenger arrived and handed him a package, with the kaiser's compliments. He opened It nervously and found nothing- more terrible inside than an alarm clock. Wflhelm's wit Is often bitlrur. and he does not in the least mind snubbing in public those who are unlucky enough to vex him. At a recent state dinner a distinguished dis-tinguished truest tucked his serviette under un-der his chin just as the soup came on. Now. this Is a custom the emperor dislikes dis-likes Immensely. Turning to the offender of-fender he asked, in his blandest tones: n "Tell me. do you wish to be shaved?" One of the best stories told of him concerns his nursery days. One evening Wllhelm was troublesome and his governess gov-erness pave him a severe whipping. After Af-ter It was all over she took the future monarch by the arm and addressed him seriously. "Prince." she said. "I felt it my cuty to chastise you. but I assure you it pained me more than you." "Oh. yes." exclaimed he between sobs, "but does it hurt you where it hurts Red Tape in Postoffice. A good story is going the rounds of the newspapers illustrating the beauties of bureaucratic government. In the post-office post-office department If a clerk wishes a new pencil he must turn in the stump of the one that has become too short. In the particular instance cited a clerk received his new pencil without returning: the end. Before the omission was discovered the clerk was transferred to -another office. Just after he had commenced his duties at his new post he received an official intimation that Tie had neglected to hand in his pencil end. 3y this tim. it had disappeared, but to prevent bother the clerk purchased a new pencil, cut off a piece about the length of the missing bit and dispatched it to the stationery department. After eight vears of bitterly contested litigation in the courts the romance of an alleged rhangellng has been conclude by the decision of the imperial supreme court at Leipzig that the 14-year-old Joseph Jo-seph Kwileckl is of noble birth and -not a child of lowly origin. By this decision the "Jittle count." a handsome black-halred black-halred youth now attending a public school at Breslau. becomes heir to estates valued at 52.500.000 in German Poland. Count Ignaz Kwllecki and hlE wife Countess Isabella Kwileckl. who occupied a prominent position among the Polish aristocrary, were for many years disappointed disap-pointed in their hopes of a son. the lack of whom meant that the family estate; would, after the edath of CounL Ignaz. pass to Count Hector Kwilecki, a distant cousin. Count and Countess Kwilccki had three daughters but no son. The death of Count Ifmaz would thus have plunged Countess Isabella and her daughters into msi poverty. 2mm When Countess Kwilecki was 51 years Aea &nuncement was issued to the ijjjR effect that she had given birth to a sod l3Sp on January T2. 1S?7. This baby was ihe nuj Count Joseph Kwilccki whose fate has Urol now been decided, ttu - Boy Is Not Changeling. ffWj The legal contest began soon after the boy's birth, when Countess Isabella was accused of having obtained the baby from another woman to pass it off as her own son. with the intention of depriving Count Hector Kwilecki of his rightful inheritance inheri-tance and thereby securing to herself the entailed revenues during the minority of her alleged child. Count Hector employed a small army of detectives, and In the course of their inquiries in-quiries they brought to light many strange facts. Countess Isabella. Instead of remaining l her-magnificent home to give birth to her child, had rented a small flat. At the time of the birth she refused to summon sum-mon doctors, but was attended by several Polish women, who had been domestic servants in her household for years. Count Hector spent years In collecting collect-ing incriminating material and then Initiated an action demanding that ihs high court at Posen should adjudge the infant to be an Interloper and neither the rightful son of the Countess Isabella Kwllecki nor the legitimate heir to the estates. The case was tried in 1201. when the boy was four years old. and he was brought into court to show the remarkable remark-able likeness between his own features and those of the Countess Isabella. The court rejected Count Hector Kwilecki's -laim and ruled that there was insufficient proofs to warrant the denial of Countess Isabella's motherhood. Count Hector then pressed the public prosecutor to take action, and the arrav of evidence laid before the official seemed to be so overwhlemlng that he ordered the arrest of Countess Isabella and her husband, as well as cf the sen-ants who nerc In attendance upon her at the time of the birth. The trial of Count Ignaz and Countess Isabella Kwllecki. and of n their servants, took place in Berlin in , 1593, and ended in the acquittal of all. H First Verdict Killed Her. EH Count Hector persauded Cecilia Mayer. fiSEl the alleged rightful mother of the boy, to jK bring an action In the civil court for the sSlc robbery of the child. Count Hector made Sill no secret of the fact that he supplied Slit her with money to pay the costs of this ; action. Svv The action was first heard and the Mh- counse' who appeared on behalf of the SI , Utile count argued that Cecilia Mayer W i could not possibly be the mother of the m&ti car. because If she were she would natu- 2 6 rally desire to see him the heir to mag- Ri 8 niflcent estates, living in luxury Instead fj ? of endeavoring to drag him down from HI S his high position and reduce him to Hi 3 besgary. yj I Now the case has developed a step fur- mi 'i ther. According to the decision given y by the imperial court the lad of fourteen I S who has been brought up as Count II I Joseph Kwllecki may continue at any Btfl rate, for the present to regard that as fll his legal name and to look upon himself ill i as the heir o the manor of Wroblewo and H Its revenues. Itj ! The iypreme judges have upset the or- h I der of the PoEen court that the boy should be delivered up "to Frau Mayer. But, though there is no appeal from the im- ferial court, it would appear that the atest rulings leave the question of the boy's identity "where it was. Seven judges of the supreme tribunal at Leipzig heard the appeal. They did not order a new trial, but simply cancelled the rulings of the high court at Posen. The decision c the supreme court is absolutely ab-solutely final, so that Joseph's identity as the real Count Kwllecki Is definitely established. Count Ignaz Kwilecki, Joseph's aged father, was the only member of the family fam-ily present when judgment was delivered. deliv-ered. He was overjoyed. The overwhelming sorrow at the decision de-cision of the high court at Posen in depriving de-priving her of thr. boy. and indirectly of adjudging her a criminal. led to the death of Couatess Isabella Kwileckl In February. Febru-ary. 1?10. |