Show 1 I I f GERMAN mMA pm PRINCESS Cf i iW W T Ill r f I S 1 I Spent in III Five Years cars and i Tried to Get a Great Deal Ural More GAMBLED AT MONTE MONE MON E CARLO I Also let on Horse laces anti and Led Lcd a Wild Wildlife Life of or Extravagance t and ami Was os Arrester Arrested by U Ii Creditors Special Correspondence 1111 Feh 1 ch i It will bo he uncommonly B manly Interesting to see HOC what whal ef of effect feet her recent narrow marrow escape from Imprisonment for or fraud will wll have hase hl upon Princess Alexandra I von whom It Is II no exaggeration to describe 11 Its R ono of the most food extraordinary spend spendthrifts spendthrifts spendthrifts thrifts Europe over ever hits has produced It warm IIA of or course this handsome daughter r of ono omens Oil of the oldest olI lIt and 1 noblest of Ter non mon titled families who succeeded after t ther her romantic divorce and second se mar ringe In ha 11 getting rid rIll of a n fortune of or over In n less than five Oe years One Ono might night have expected her highness s sto to practise economy for a 11 bit after that thill specially especially dally ns os she ho was heavily hell vII In debt but hut Instead 1 she realized upon vary vari various arl oust ous historic estates which still remain remained ed 1 to her and with tho Ito proceeds l plunged ed cd Into time the wildest sort of ot speculation SI Most of her hor coups failed foiled and before long Ion I the time hearer bearer of ot one of the tho proudest names In Germany was penniless again Bg tn Her position however made lo It com cont comparatively easy for her to borrow hugo huge sums II R with the aid of which sho rho M went In for betting on o n horse races hoping In Inthis this flits way la to retrieve e her fortunes On i the mho track however the princess lost 1 mare more morl heavily hN lIy than over so osha sh she borrowed bor bore borrowed rowed more morn money mane and Ind tried d her luck s sat I Int nt at Monte Monto Corlo but that venture turn turri urn L Lod od oil out as all badly brolly ns nil the others had done I i There Will was a 11 sensation when bailiffs acting under tinder orders oro en from her creditors lucid held up the princess In the tho streets of oC Stuttgart and mid took from Irom her what v lu ables oble she sho war wan carrying and another y the woman board il l on oh the tho shores df dt Lake Con Constance n stance and l everyone every One supposed that th the 1 career was about nt at an nn end when she was arrested not long ago ugo t I Ial tat at al tin Instance of oC moneylenders in Munich Frankfort Kassel Stuttgart Constance and oth other r cities from whom whort Rho sho burro borrowed vet and und ordered to bo be t tried bled for fraud before tho the Frankfort s r I court nut time the trial has ha resulted In it tho time 1 remarkable rem decision that though the tha jl i n rl methods of gaining funds fun ls un t doub lI were shady she did noth nath nothIng Ing InK absolutely Illegal On this tills ground J site she sl was acquitted and now Gentian society folk are asking each elUh other what r i the next chapter will be bo In her amazing life story I ONLY ONIA DESCENDANT Dl The princess now lOW n a woman of 48 18 iii I j the tho only ani living lIng descendant of the former electors of Nassau South Ger Oer Germany ninny many who lorded larded It In the he ancient ens cn ties tics of and nn l years ago amid upon ullon whom wealth titles and nil ell nl ports of were Alexandra Inherit Inherited conferred Princess v ved ed I it fortune of oo Her ter first husband tuna her kinsman Ada Bert bort of win also was Im lam Immensely rich She Blip married him at nt 20 21 They went to live In Stuttgart and nil the signs seemed d to Indicate that their life would be bo n II happy one They both bOlh had ho l youth th lr social nodal position o was distinguished and their homes home and CM es tote Gates numbered DO no less Icu than nine r i INFATUATION l Trouble however hOlver came almost Im tm Immediately I mediately In time the shape hn o of all an formed by b time the ess for tor a I mill tart tor err named I who van stationed at lit Stuttgart rt What Chut tho the nt at traction tm It Is 18 hard to tell toll for tor Lieu i was not good rood to 10 o look nt at amid moreover tuns poor anti and nn 11 a I nobody the tho Princess s Alex Alexandra lec tundra andra sacrificed everything tor for his hi sake left her home hone to Ile with him and did dill not sot defend the tha suit MIlt which her liner promptly brought against liar her herfor for divorce Tills was warm granted 1 him just Jun i itO tO vo years 1115 Ms his with time tho princess The Th noblewoman revived back bade her dowry of oC 5 and amid Im lm su mart mur ll after which she exerted nil her bor Influence In to Hot get him finally In r for Kim hint the tho title Ulle of harem baron wiNT WJ T A DMA DI Y PACE PACI n this couple started on such eh a it alife 1 life of rf IC wt nod ns iii have beggared bl n or a 1 took a n unlace In In spite spilt of or the net fart that lint the prince former crater still tuns lit Ih log IK 11 In III mm the town which they thov made mads their home Imme but they land had also n a country coil milry hOIl M I III in I a n summit log lodge In lit Inthe 11 the lit Tyrol a villa In Imm the and nl a 11 aown town own In hi Tho The staff wits to run nil these es cs nf f dome Fonie fO nails nf ot servants sod the tho couple kept vi war r horses They had hilI n a tn more noun than thine that lint nand d by hy ii the Ille emperor and nil all heir WON was W H untie don In III their special trout train h ll titled up 1111 throughout with lh M 1 t luxury by b ew drawing rooms In III the time fatherland fA Princess Al AI AlI I I 1111 a to w ni an LIP gown tint that had bad coat enst ot less lean than t anti and when Mh she hf appeared In n a playhouse ir ur e of ot ah h mils ill illi 1101 i wrath worth at least bant Tin The Ill baron toron was tt as his ish N NM Nil cigar vai 11 Rood aunt for him lint not net turf rort n tidier r or and h buy buyno no ii one amiss for hl his IH I II Per POl Imps hops thin Its It s ii one mie winter whiter they bOI 5 mi nn eve co evenings In the viand s II I rt nt at arh c h I a r t Itee foa feasts ii being lit tie the tho that money could cOllI buy Lu IO IY IUN Iles UN tATER i At Ort first the princess and her hor baron tried to live this existence i ion on the th lt of at tho the formers money mone but It soon foon became b ram evident that this j I could coul not bo he lone so sa they hey commenced I upon tho the principal Within three years ears I tho the original were practically dissipated hut but just In tho Ito nick of ot time lame the tha princess came camo Into three more mora fortunes amounting In all to about Z s You might have thought that tb the couple would have motto made same owe attempt to mend their ways and hold hola on to this thin windfall on n the they th y frittered It away awny had even even more ly than they the hud their original means and then began to borrow No 0 ono dreamed that thc thu they were at ut fret first they got gut prat what funds they asked fur for Later Late Lateen en cn hl however wever their reul real situation become becam known and ond then th there was WIl trouble Creditors swooped down on the couple and threatened all nil sorts sortA of ot revenge Evidently tho the princess nail and the I filCh each regarded the other ns as the tho author of ot their downfall for tor they begun began quarrelling reI ling and soon noon their relations got su so disagreeable that Alexandra sought ought a from He lIer thirtieth I a 0 few tow days before she shi gained her decree ENORMOUSLY It was after having become a divorcee for tor the second time In her life Ilfe UI Princess Prince II von net MI about sell sellIng sellIng Ing her various properties and employ employing employing ing the tho money obtained for tor them In the thede desperate de Attempts already described describe l P Pt t recover her former position The un unlimited unlimited limited borrowing which she begat began r when speculation had wallowed up tilt her the castles of ot and was done In almost every Iery part of at Europe l She Sho must have had hall nn an unusually per persuasive way lIa with Her lieI for tor at nt her trial the other day a n capitalist of lit Basel testified that he made malle over to her with without without out receiving a single singe penny the tam fam oui Otis castle on the only to discover when he tried to get KH It beck back again that her highness Ity y had disposed of ot tho the place for Cor a II good goo round sum It was soon noon after aCter this that thit the princess was wan all stopped In the prin principal cipal street of ot Stuttgart by the bailiff of oC tho the town who took look possession of ot h her herVA r watch VA teh of at several articles articles of at Jewelry and of ot other trinkets which were In her i pockets SQUANDERED IN GAMBLING When she ahe could burrow borrow no more maIo from moneylenders the tho applied to her relatives who paid her an nn annuity of for tor several years but bUl with withdrew withdrew drew it when they the discovered that most of the th money was Willi spent by h the titled tilled I woman In gambling However a year car ago the advanced Princess Alexandra enough money mOMY to lo start her boarding house on Lake Constance which for tor a 11 while looked like Ilko paying m III Its lI titled tilled proprietor really worked hard to popularize It and was lIas aided In Inthis inthis this thin effort by the prestige which her title gave her hor But Dut the decline of the began when Its It novelty had worn orn off ort and so It was doted and amI tho the prin princess princess cess Celli disappeared for tor a while Last Lant Au August August gust lUll however she he turned UP In Stutt Hutt Stuttgart gart looking decidedly shabby r and was wi wall promptly arrested on many charges of at obtaining money under tinder false also pretenses At t this Ihle time It II was woe stat stated stated ed cd that the spendthrift princesa In Indebtedness amounted to over One Ont moneylender Is In reported to have hlo committed suicide when he discovered how he had load been many lOon other I pathetic stories are current of at misery s brought about by b the o of at r this aristocratic adventuress fO |