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Show TO PR0BE10I" MURDER MYSTERY Baron de Fisping Is Accused of Slaying Prince Drouzki-Lubezki, Drouzki-Lubezki, Rich Pole. "FRIEND" OF .VICTIM Tells Story That Does Not Fit With Reports of the Prosecution's Evidence. By FREDERICK WERNER. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, June 6. A eeneationa murder trial -will bo opened hore in the next few days, by which it is hoped that the mystery surrounding tho death of Prince Drouzki-LubezUi, a Polish landowner of great wealth, will be cleared up. The inquest shed no light on the matter, but lator, as the reauit of evidence given by some peasants, a friend of tho prince, Baron de Fisping, vras arrested, and will shortly appear before the assize court on charge ot murder and fraud. Tho baron is well known in Warsaw socioty. It appears that Baron do Fisping had been staying with the prince on his estates near Teresin. One day he was summoned back to Warsaw and the prince offered to drive him to the station. sta-tion. According to the prisoner's account ac-count two peasants stopped them on the way with, a long story of something they wanted the prince, as tho landlord, to do for them. Afraid of missing his train the baron said good-by to his host and set otf on foot, not to the station sta-tion at Teresin, but to another one some miles away, where he took the train to Warsaw. Inquiries are said to have shown, however, that the baron was seen alter the crime had been committed near the spot where the prince was found with a bullet through his head. It is also stated that in his possession were found seven letters of exchange for a total sum f $175,000 with forged signatures of the prince. Train Pursues Aeroplane. Lieutenant Pizygod, an army airman, has had an exciting experience, in which his aeroplane strange as it may sound narrowly escaped being run down by a train. The airman was making a flight, when his biplane developed engine : trouble and the pilot descended abruptly abrupt-ly on a railway line. No sooner had the officer left his seat than he observed a freight train approaching at a high rate of speed. , It seemed inevitable that the train would dashinto the aeroplane, but the plucky lieutenant, with great presence of mind, sprang again to his scat and I succeeded in restoring the refractory I entrine. j Ihe aeroplane rose not a second" too ! soon, for, &s it mounted into the aii j the train sped underneath it, tho tops of the cars almost grazing the skids of the machine. This, however, was the last effort of which the biplaue was capable, and a moment later it crashed down to the railway track, burying the airman beneath be-neath it. An express was due to pass over that part of the line, but, happily, some trainmen had witnessed the accident acci-dent and succeeded in stopping the train only a few yards from the wrecked machine. The officer suffered only slight injuries. in-juries. Plant Tree for Prince, On the instructions . of the empress an oak tree has been planted in the park of the palace at Potsdam in honor of the birth of an heir to the duchy of Brunswick. On the day of the baptism of the kaiserin 's new grandchild a parchment bearing his names will be attached to a post in front of the little tree. According to current reports the young prince will be christened Krnost Augustus. Since their silver wedding the kaiser and kaiserin hava adopted -the custom of commemorating the principal events in the family by planting an oak. Thus, on the marriage of their daughter with j Prince Augustus of Cumberland, now 1 Duke of Brunswick, a tree was planted, and beside this one that of the little prince has been set in the soil. |