Show I Secret cre e of a Princes Prince's Death Revealed by His Intimates Theo Theory of Matrimonial Unhappiness Is Scouted Held Real t f r. r Notorious five Twenty five Y Scandal of f Suicide J. J j By William Le Qu Queux ux J-ik J C 1020 10 by the tho Worldwide News Service Inc 15 15 School Schooly y J street Boston Doston Mass Dass t lt t Is amusing to note noto how the tho worlds world's press press press-at at tho the instigation allon of of- t tho e clover er t lr pullers ImBer'S of ot Berlin Berlin arc arc attributing the suicide of ot Prince Joachim Francois Humbert of ot Prussia to worries concerning his wife Here onto more we have havo an attempt to hush up another great scandal of C the he black and one which it Il Is my purpose to unmask Tho official intimation of ot tho the death of ot Frenchy the tho tho pet pct name b by which the prince was known to tho the fallen tallen war lord and h his 9 wife wife was was certainly In discreet ct diplomatic language which told OR ve that In fn an access of or physical disturbance he took arms against I himself in the Villa at Potsdam and succumbed at nt 1 I o'clock at nigh In Jn plain language c the youngest son of or the great reat I cold gold helmeted natan shot hot himself Why hy Berlin tells teU us a n. story I of matrimonial unhappiness It always throws the onus onu of or a n great upon the smaller fry In ln this case the smaller fry Is the tho extinct princely house of ot As- As because In 1916 1916 after after th the kaisers cx x rs r's son had como come back from the tho front In disgrace race owing to to having stolen some ome silver spoons and works work of art from a French chateau the chateau the war wr lord contrived contrived contrived con con- to marrY marry marry- him to the tho good looking antI and charming Marie of ot Anhalt sister o of the then rel reigning nID prince n The Tho war lords lord's press a agents quickly became bus busy and a great t N deal derl of fuss was waR created Pictures PIctures Pictures Pic PIc- tures of the tho wedding were taken Liken smuggled Into En England by bv German Gorman agents and shown upon the screen creen as those thoo of the tho happy couple What hat a 0 mockery The poor young oun princess Bs knew even b before before fore her marriage that tho the war lord had hod willed her hr to co JO to the altar In order to cover tr the sins of one of ot the worst young degenerates In all Germany German On the announcement of ot his Imperial highness suicide I at once Iou sought ht mv my oM old friend Count Ernst von yon late p personal personal per per- r- r adjutant to the tho German crown prince who happens to be he bep p upending spending a n few weeks in London and whose hose book boole Secrets of or Potsdam Potsdam Potsdam Pots Pots- dam it ft ma may bo be remembered 1 edited d a n couple of years tars a ago o. o He told mn m mv nv v Interesting things regarding regarding William the tho Ho- Ho s youngest son Some SomeI I dare daro not put Into print But In order to DOSI th actual secret othis tragic end I will endeavor to to make some explanation Mastery I frT douse fr- fr If U In Berlin you ou ask uk th the H errant elegant man about out town to In In In the or th the thA Kel Iel Jer J r for information concerning The Thc Twenty fie he will shrug hru 11 shoulders nn and 1 knit his hf brows n and pd look you OU very vCr straight In the Iv I Is subject subject sub sub- The Th Tw a 3 j ct taboo in fn respectable circles Even the the- old roue roU and the thc young degenerate de do An o not care caro to die die- the subject It Jt I la Is Ion on one that 1 Id 19 forbidden den Yet het d th this disreputable ble hIe club which still has Its headquarters head head- quarters at a L house houge In the Kur- Kur Damn and the tho members of which are cue limited limited- to tn n a quarter of r a a. hundred Is I one of ot the most S Infamous associations In all Bu Bu- tone rooe Ernst von who has hul visited the tho place with his royal master r the ex-crown ex I prince described it t to me over a coffee In m my club I Outside it In is a tall Inartistic I house hOURt which thousands tho DJ new S dally daily in the ebb obb bh and flow of ot the capItal capital cap cap- ital nobody cv ever r dreaming that it is anything else than a dwellIng dwelling dwell dwell- ing house over business pr premises Below I in is a rather expensive to tobacconists tobacconist's tobacconists to- to where the of Berlin buy their cl cigarettes and amber mouthpieces from two blond haired girls named Erna and Mar Margarete arct t The place above however Is b furnished with the most moat bizarre taste and luxury In 1913 1911 It was the bachelor homo home of young ounG Valdemar Valdemar Val- Val demar von Gohren the son on of or the great sugar refiner of Hamburg He lie furnished it regardless ss of ot cost b but t died two years later Joachim had met him a tennis in Dussel Dusseldorf ort and had hod borrowed I a a. large rge sum from him Then ins InI In- In s I stead of paying pr the debt he ho let letI I him Into that t little de degenerate I e coterie of ot which Eulenburg Was s head and which Wl was subsequently I exposed sed by Maximilian Harden Barden Von Gohren Gren fell fen into tho the trap which the had prepared but a week later ho died As a matter of or fact bet he ho was found dead in bed having haTing taken The North G German n Gazette zetto had hl x R. leading article upon which greatly annoyed Prince Joachim Joa Joa- chim But Dut as soon noon as s young youn Gohren Gohren Gohren Goh Goh- ren was burled his imperial highness high high- highness ne ness s started st The Tho Twenty Five And The Twenty five are are- associated asso neso- elAted and have their headquarters in poor Von Yon Gohren's house until today D Death ith UrtON l Only a year n ago o it was wan discovered ered e so ro my friend Von dor dorff tells that me young ounG Valdemar Valde- Valde mar committed suicide he ht was afraid to face the music atIL of at ofa a IL trial In other words word he h-e was being blackmailed by those who knew new what went ent on In the Kur- Kur Damn fursten to such an on extent that hat he preferred d to take tik his own life lire instead n tend of ot submitting to It further Poor Pony little Marie Mirl of f Anhalt dis- dis covered herself married to a brutal degenerate who neglected and despised Oe- Oe her Within three months of their marriage o her husband huband went to the Russian front In gay hay uniform bedecked d with decorations decora decora- and there associated openly with a a. notorious woman from Monte Carlo Then one on of his imperial highness highness' highness highness' high high- high I ness' ness enemies tools took a series of se secret secret secret se- se cret snapshots of ot the pair in fn Poland Poland Poland Po Po- land and sent flent them anonymously to the tho Villa tho the result of ot which was that th tho the princess sent a private detective out to the front and on hi his return she sho In Instituted Instituted instituted In- In I proceedings for divorce 1 th the Woman oman tier Her husband was a typical IIo- IIo an overbearing o swashbuckler swash swash- buckler yet et when faced with facts he excused himself on account or his weakness and ill III health and antl andin andin in turn blamed the woman who ho by tho the way he had treated abom abom- According to Von Heltz- Heltz he actually by a ruse took toole possession of the whole o othe of the womans woman's jewelry and sold It it to a Jew dealer in Frankfort This miserable son of ot the onetime onetime one one- time war lord of Europe would If fC Germany had won the war have become king king- of Lithuania In Instead Instead In- In stead he lies In a suicides suicide's grave rac and one ono can indeed have little sympathy for him Last year Prince Joachim went wont to Camplone Campione that delightful little place embowered In fn chestnut woods on the lake opposite Lugano Lugano Lu Lu- gano sano where he established hoo the new and up-to-date up copy of MonteCarlo Monte MonteCarlo ont Carlo Its clientele Is select ant ano tho the stakes are usual usually high In incognito as Baron von Oster he plunged ed heavily h en II at It et quarante and In Juno last won nearly a II quarter of f a n million francs Von saw him there and lunched with him Watching 1 him very carefully was an nn elderly German whose whoso son was an Intimate friend of ot the prince One da day after dinner the theelder theelder theelder elder man succeeded f In meeting the prince alone when a violent scene ensued From that moment until the the present the thc young youn scoundrels scoundrel's life has no d doubt been made a tor- tor turn ture One however has no sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy for him when It Is recollected recollected recollected how badly ho treated the poor young girl who at the cx- cx kalser's kaiser s orders order sacrificed herself to him in marriage Th The truth was that this man and his son son son-a a member of ot the notorious no no- blackmailed blackmailed black ck torinus Twenty five mailed the ex emperors pet son sonto sonto to such an enormous extent that he saw caw no way out but to kill Im himself For nine months the son had been persistently bled to the tho tune o of many thousands of ot pounds but owing o to a crushing demand being made upon him and anda a n threat to drag his wife's name into the mire on the following day and so disgrace him in the CY eyes 8 of the German public he took the drastic course coarse of ot ending his life life Ufe- the only cour course open to him It is well Swell known that on thelast the tho b last t occasion lon the crown cox prince visited En England land Just before beCore the war his hla brother Joachim came with him At a well veil known night nightclub nightclub club in r London ondon he made the ac acQuaintance acquaintance ac- ac of a young actress whose name I prefer not to di dl- dl ulse Ho called himself Count von Braun Brann and his name nama can still be found on the boos books of a small private hotel I close to o Piccadilly The girl fell in love with him and the pair went to Franco France They lived to together ether In Paris for nearly nearh three months the princes prince's whereabouts whereabouts where where- being a a. mystery to the emperor emperor em em- What hat really occurred will probably ably never be known All that I have gathered and gathered and from a n re reliable reliable re- re liable source the is 19 Is that tho the gIrl was found early one winter winter winter win win- ter morning In the Bole Bols de Bou Bou- logne and when questioned b by the police was found to be a a. hopeless s Idiot And as such she is b now no confined rt in the lunatic asylum of ot Truly the career reer of ot the ex- ex kaisers kaiser's youngest oun C t son has been an unenviable lable on one one His death need arouse little regret |