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Show Explaining Bent Cross on Crown of Hungary was recovered later, the little cross ou the top was found bent on one side, from this time onward the urms of Hungary have borne a crown with a cross hent toward the left." Detrolr News. With reference to a question re cently asked concerning the famous St. Stephen's crown of Hungary an1 the reason why the cross on top of It Is bent, a Hungarian reader, B. S. writes as follows: "As a painter painted signs whlcb bear the Hun garlaD royal crown. My master told me they had a revolution In 1818 and some one burled the crown In the for est of Lakwa, southeast of Zlutlca. Nobody No-body knew of It for years until Franz Josef was to be crowned. The government gov-ernment sent men to look for It and by the help of a Serbian shepherd they found It with Its cross bent" This story Is confirmed by Henri de Wen-del's Wen-del's book, "The Real Francis-Joseph," which states: "Before Kossuth left he burled with his own hands the Hun gurlan crown, the old crown of St. Stephen, In the neighborhood of the frontier village of Orsova. When It |