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Show Girl for Whom . Jilted Prince Tries Suicide MISS MARY G. DUKE. LOSES WIEE GiRU PICE SHOOTS SELF King of Spain's Cousin Dying After Failing to Win Tobacco Tobac-co King's Daughter. By International News. Service. PARIS. July 3. Prince Ludovic Pig-nntelli Pig-nntelli A' Arrogon, a distant cousin of the king of Spain, and well known in the United States, shot himself In his apartment apart-ment here, supposedly because ho had Tailed to win the hand of Mary Duke, daughter of Benjamin J. Duke of New York, head of tho tobacco trust, to whom he was recently reported engaged. It was said tonight at the hospital whore the prince was taken that ho could not live. Tho bullet entered near the heart. The prince had been melancholy and had seldom left his apartment since his recent return from the United States. Late yestorday he dined with several friends and shortly afterward roturned to his apartment. When a servant attempted at-tempted to enter the prince's room today he found tho door locked. Being unable to arouse his master, ho summoned some of the latter's friends and they forced an entrance. The prince lay on the bed, barely alive. A revolver, lay on the floor with one chamber empty. No Note Is Found. A thorough search of tho room failed to disclose a note or letter containing and indication of the motlvo for the act. It is understood that Mr. and Mrs. Duke opposed tho marrlago of their daghtcr to tho princess solely for religious reasons. Prince D'Arragon shot himsolf in tho breast. The bullet struck a rib and came out through his hackj Miss Duke, whose father handles the financial affairs of the American Tobacco company, and Is reputed to bo worth at least 300,000,000. made tho acquaintance acquain-tance of Prince d'Arragon through her brother. Angler Duke. Although upon his arrival in America, the prlnco announced an-nounced that ho was no longer engagod to Miss Helen Hilton (whom ho at one time pronounced the most beautiful woman wom-an in America) he began paying constant attention to Miss Duke. Dnke Denies Engagement. Mr. Duke was glad to welcome hlra as a friend but was not ready to accept him as a son-ln-lnw. The prince, however, continued to be a frequent visitor at tho Duke home, and in a short time the first report of their engagement was circulated. circu-lated. Her father immediately issued this announcement: "There never was an engagement between be-tween my daughter and the Prlnc d'Arragon." d'Ar-ragon." Shortly after the prince sailed from New York to Europe, il was again reported re-ported that he and Miss Duke would wed. An obstacle to tho marriage religious re-ligious differences had been overcome, it was reported. The prince, who Is a Catholic, was understood to have received re-ceived the promise of n spocial dispensation. dispen-sation. It was whispered by his friends that King Alfonso of Spain, to whom the prince Is slightly related, had joined Mr. Duke In opposing the marriage of tho prince and the American heiress. The- family to which the prince belongs be-longs Is one of the oldest In Europe. |
