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Show RAILROADED TO MADHOUSE BY EMPEROR OF GERMANY PfK Hsht? Count wA? iy vfftis wr " Beautiful Countess, Once Intimate In-timate Friend of the Kaiser, Imprisoned for Threatening to Expose Family Skeletons. (Special to The Telegram.) BASLE, Switzerland. June iV. Because Be-cause she threatened to make scandalous, scan-dalous, revelations about the German Emperor and other members of the Hohenzollern family, the Countess von Wedel-Berard, once an Intimate friend of the Kaiser, has been sent to a madt house. The Countess, a member of a wealthy Prussian family, began her notorious career when she was a beautiful beau-tiful girl of 18. She fell in love with Prince Fr'edrich von Hohenzollern. a second cousin of the Kaiser, and remained re-mained faithful to him until his marriage. mar-riage. Then she came to know the Kaiser Intimately. Upon the Emperor's marriage she accepted the hand of Count von We-del. We-del. They separated and she then married Lieut. Schlarbaum of the German Ger-man army. Learning that his wife corresponded wlili the Emperor, the Lieutenant sought a divorce. The Countess received from the Kaiser an income of $4500 a year, but some time ago they became estranged and. offended by the Emperor's coolness, cool-ness, his former friend threatened' to write a book exposing some of the Hohenzollerns" family skeletons. A former book from her. pen had told some startling facts about court life. and exposed a number of scandals concerning con-cerning Count von Waldersae. Terrified by her threats, tha Kaiser, when his emissaries failed to dissuade . her from her design, had her placed in an asylum for life, an act that can be easily accomplished in Germany. |