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Show FAUHT " ...,..,,,......., 4 . 1-- 0 eVy ' . .? .. U'-i, I "' " - . .t THE EVENING IIERALD, THURSDAY,' APRIL 29. 1926. ' 1 1' VV Ul - - 4 ' .1 r ' L j T J " .... ,. ... ., .i , . 4 JL.. tptmM mm f jo 1 ' i met now. me cmpmx . v & its- r 1 V i kinir r - .1. ThirteenYedrs, ' r r m. w a v".:'j.f V ' - s ..:i.;TWi''. wit at ui Be: : ft Twf-wMtT- ; lLAVi . II.-'-- f i " "t 1 v, v, ' ' .,:: Jl IV fA Xbomt Hrr Sont Fran WaJU, Reul of tiu Vlemu Polie. Who .. Gathered the Evidence Ararat Ui RoyI Gimrdsmu. Vttix Ton Kundefrtber-Delpint KliKt; Who U Charred with the Mvder of Prettr izti. Schmidt, and After Thirteen Yeara Hu Been Brmght t TjslaJL .All LA 1 V,.: . the Young Girl, who Was Found Brutall- yMardered in a Hotel ' , AHflX . mi. - 't 'V h - 'ff) v rs , , 1 A ' t . . '".-'"'- 'I V , - . ,( : "a 'l ' ST ( ' ?, -- ' ' ?r,T y -- fTZt'i ''V fv:.' ' , LA.'.) , .V,iA : , X . ' v.-e- " .1. ' "V - , ,; ! v 3 1 J f V' I v fcS ' - ' I 4 i y, Br ; i NELSON SPRINCEkT ' THIRTEEN VIENNA. cpraa and grona l,v yoari bee fought " through , the nwrning wken Felix von 'Kunibb'r-DJirfny;'mbp;oith Emper- - ; or'a jiard, alkd oat .'of ; th Roemiichep taker llotol, learing behind Kim fte trutaeU-an- d tattered bod? ef wetty MItl Schmidt MJtii alone Vienna M and, In eager girl Just jomgtime . KvUndegrfcber-DeJpinen -good the other hand,; VHtt cidn ox oh of th proudert Aurtrlan- familtei,f aa officer, a member of th Jtoyal Guard. . "Under the lUptbarff regime, it appevre' he wm i&fe is. aoythtof he telghi do. . Thoeyhom the-- Haun burgi favored, ka.tt?.ueeii oould, do no clnee f. . y. ; That u why mere baa never een any attempt to Ming (ae aiiegea aiayer ox jauu scnmiat m juatice, although the murdef va admittedly one of the most brutal ealloue crimes in the history of Vienna. Xhere itm m jnaaa of evidence collected by the, police to ihow that Kundegraber- Delpiny wa the guilty perton. But ha wa never too preciout to ptoeecuted. JUie tnung,.wM tne imperial regiSM. - . aocial ; Jfiaai Schmidt had ataadln? .' She waa o young girl'i very yoshg1 and alone. She had real and very natural interest in a good time, but not much opportunity to enjoy the gay and pleas aai things of UfOv" I', ':',, - It vaain March of a rood time that Uisxi, one night, ''vent tev the Cafe Europe., Adi on the same ."night,' in t search of someone like Mini also KundegraW'-IJelplny- , SohmldV Feli vt went to the Cafe Europe, They met They, talked. They finally went no the- little hotel known at the Roemischer Kaiser. Some time during; the ni&ht the debonair. oung officer left, hot only the hotel, but Vienna. fIliasf remained behind in the hotel. Her dead body waa found in the dismal room the next horning: She had been murdered, apparently . fcW a violent itruggie. ".'ier jewels, such as they were, had been taken ffAlihe first thought of the police was that the. Q e of the murder was robbery. It was later that Kundegraber-Delpin- y ...vered, however: ' ji Wn HKlfl 4.VIV tlii laurel, . .. Jolice off the scent r to The police went work immediately. They found little difficulty in gathering a large volume of evidence which teemed,, peacucally to Insure .?.;,,. , ' ,- ,V - ' t t ' . 1 . v i ',;. er - Hotd. in Vienna. ' .ii: So the mattei of MtlssJ Schmidt wu iiropped. was so thoroaghly "dropped that it was even safe for young Felix to. retyrn to Vienna occasionally to visit, his parents, who Continued to play a leading Tart In the best Viennese society. It and Unfortunately for Kundograber-Delmn- y various other privileged members of his tlass, other governments did not hold the same exalted views of their importance. When, recently, mem-- t bors of, the Hungarian Government vet iropli. cated in an attempt te force French banknotes on a wholesale scale, the French Government took it upon itself to find the criminals, whoever they X i , ,;;. might be. It would very definKelv aoDaar that a number of titled personages in 'Central Europe had be- -: i. -- - so come to accustomed the privilege of committing rimes 'without being pun ished for them tnat they overlooked the possibility that some ther couhtry might take a somewhat dif- -. 7S VV Ty Ojt?,i' f l ' . Her Body Lying Across ,t -- . lVVfeT- 't' .i: W? ' ?r v."-1- w, " " r N ?. ri-- r h j? ferent attitude, even toward the titled, criminal, Certamlyy they did not reckon on, Frane" taking serious steps to apprehend them, once was made known to the French that tne counter; f eiters really belonged to the best, peoples The Worst that has been done to a number of Hungarian murderers during the past few years hss been to try them, convict them, sentence them to death, announce that they have been executed, railroad tickets and give them their first-clas- s to Constantinople, where at least two vsuch eMttrlaMnn Iisswa tnrrfnvf wa an1 vvtuivi livA) inaa aoadv. mu v v aavw bjhishj sometime. It 'iapoened. however, that on their wav to Budapest, certain French detectives stopped in Vienna and paid a visit to tne Department ox Public Safety. Their host was Hcrr Hofrat Franz Wahl, chief of the department and the man who ' had been in charge of assembling the evidence against Kundegraber-DelpinQuite naturally, ' ' cases of protected criminals y. wra Herr discussed. his Wahl told of the Story of Misit Sehmldf The Frenchmen. Were Intrigued by, the; stotyrThe FraAcTi ' f re vi if I i , v 1 n a JU.r. 1! i' saw i a,. ' if gay- est most resplendent pageants the world has known, r Multicolored uniforms th the splendor of women's gowns. The gayety of Vienna was known throughout the world as being more brilliant, more Intense even- - thanvtha IT of Paris. There Is a hectic, eat- - RWmisch-Kais- Tjr' "lsf A View Showfnr tne Arrival of the' Late Emperor trans Josei .of Austria at One of the Brilliant Court a ' Kundegraber-Delpin- y Functions. Held Before the War. ; Arrow rPoinU-to, a , . . Member of the Imperial puard. importance of Kundergraber-Dolpin- y could not under the Hapsburgs, be nmsted for anything soCtrivial as the murder of nameksa.. todis--.' creet Woman. ; ,, The eourt of the of-th- 44, t , ' 'f,, was one si--:- s , conviction ol Kbndegraber-Delpin- y, loona tnree wimetses wno taentmea a of hun as 'the man-- who. wai. with Mlsai Sehmidt-ja- st before she . u ; wasmurdere4'7;.r But when the case!3iad-bee- n comand the police were pletely made-ou- t ' ready to arrest word "came that Ta personage of the high standing and " A.li . tne - it"! ' . lW V1 - 4 vied--wi- in about the merrymaking of- - the Tienhese row-you-d- ie qu-.li- ty s ' Gsv indiscretion. neexfleea to lllfh UIHJT tWIUOWWy g JBf but boasted aboufc And the imperial regime had no Idea of condemning its followers for whatever they might do. . It would have preferred, doubtless, that its officers carry out their Indiscretions without violence and bloodshed. But1 even an. Emperor's guardsman '. so, was an'. Emperor's guardsman and should be treated as such whatever ha did. .'h. tiK r;-r- p. , f; have never learned to love 'either the' or the HacsbnrsV opinions, so they Started . ,,, fnvestigaUon ortheir own.. - V '" 'V f Sh,, 1 A" i f f i: VZ.i, iK,.'w ' v::f T, i.A-ii- . ,' -r- 1 from the Archives of t!he Yitsas Police Showina One of j 'Csfe- Europe Where uuzi scnnuoi inn Dashing Anstriaa . II II i III i mi m . i in i mi ii miinr I M III I III I I - & . for Murder 4fla aeme rrotectea top ' c, A, - . - Proud Austrian Family Tri - , ; v ; f ! 4 .WTy-WKS- . r - ... ; Ml r Guardsman. vno '' l n mil i mi at last answer al r. xri.:-.f-.-hwe oourve,- - j VI ,i v 'J,No motive' haheve been found to explain tall, .ruiHliwrdA4-tKonnltm rk' VfltTh'e ttran. ot ijobbery asbemaiividehfiy abaunL' Vj-J.ey say, some slighf uarrklr arose btweea-tA- ' iwajjic jmu iuuujfroeiteipms msj nis 'spet- a f. m viutov4jso.wv.n pvraereuiner wiinow raeaa- - i-- , t do, ing r umf.mon tnaaiaejy; xna. secret cans ox vm TATT.V rif into,ihf grave.Wa, passionate erimeviU g iqm V.tn- was man who fulnsd, E. the pampering of i fiabiy; foa governmai'.t. wilf j.'.,.. '. 1 youilg 'officer; whose social standing,, wai.' Aoo tM K&Denre praxes to have to lUtle That investigation enaea recenuy m tne cjty .. of. Marseilles, where thoy discovered that a man livino' imHnrttiA nnnis nf Velx fiprhoulktuaa nOnS ' . Arrest. other than Felix Knhdcgrabdr-Dolpinyt f. ll and extradition followed.' i '. curiously, enougn, aiuiouga iflirieen yours.. nave eiapeea srece tne enwe vas otiiwhu, ir.o ; Viennese police4, still have at theirfdupoaal as ' witnesses tne wrefir- - people wi. jaemdiieo uit as thafr of .the picture of Knndegrabor-Delpin- y mm whn iuchTnniiniA(t Mizzi tn Tfer hotel tost be- -' . fore she was' so brutally killed. So the gallant . ' - l ' a it caarg't'detn: v i ?sj, .nii;IaN r';iiU-- p : f , I |