| Show PRINCESS WREDE A HOTEL THIEF b Confidential Valet Gives Information mation Against Pair of Royal Crooks HAD YEARNING FOR SILVER k I 1 o U us Denounced by liy E.- E. czar zm as US t Prince I Hol c c- c by Ij Republican S Special Service r k Madrid l 2 But 2 But for Cor the timely of or Prince anti anil Princess Iii S royal roal hotel robbers the Wal Wal- r d dOn Astoria rf-A rf torla and antI other great grent American 4 hotel might have ol So S contributed toward the Wrede silver chest According to her Graces Grace's I I confidential who first valet gave e the thc alarm Man Many incidents of or the tile Wrede i 1 lit story Mory or have been heen excluded from Crom the early cable by hy orders of tilla the till I a political police The rue redos aru re related ro- ro to the Kaiser alser and most of or th the royalties of Europe As for or her Grace Ue Is not the tho pretty American woman as which she hc has ha b been n pictured plc- plc In New Ne York and anti American papers throughout the country but a i Spanish grandee of ot the er very ery bluest blood lood Indeed If Ir the scandal had not cropped clopped out the Princess would have been one of oC the tho eight great Duchesses to wait walt on Ena on her hel wedding da day No Xo I Kleptomaniac But Hut Common Thief Neither is it true that the Princess whose m maiden name Is fl a yard ard long bug suffers from kleptomania She Is a common ordinary thief and worse won still made thieves of oC her servants by threats of giving information against them for the crimes she herself committed com coal Crazy on the lie Subject of or Silver If Ie the Princess Princess' mind Is at nt all af af- af- af It Is b by her passion j for silver So great reat Is her bier notion o of what be- be choo c- c hoo hoos s n. n i.- i. I nr i Bhe will b t 1 that she 1 not but bathe lie except x Pt in h u silver el bath tub and would rather ca eat cat pens peas with a tooth pick or r her hands hand than with a fork suspected of or not beIng be bc- In Ing the real thing At her Madrid Pal Pal- ace acc silver ornaments and utensils arc mc everywhere Her Grace Graco mal makes cs her toilet at a table of oC solid silver her wash bowls howls arc of th the white while metal her soap dishes e CI every table and amI bedroom utensil LII Like e most Spanish aristocrats of great pretensions Her Grace Is far Cm from froni rich and her husband a German is barel barely able to support the tho luxury Y coveted by him by y the aid aidor of or usurers Thus while the could afford to lo sport a I. I lot of silver el at home bionic they lacked the wherewithal to furnish their countr country houses in German Germany Ger Ger- man many in the same lavish fashion Hence Honce their theil Highnesses es agreed reed between between be be- tween them to steal what shat they coul couldn't nt bu buy Not a I am ani not a blackmailer said William Wil JI liam lEant GI Glaser Glaner user formerly her Graces Grace's val val- When 1 I refused ed to be the thc cat cats cat 7 s in my written v S nation I merely added in a playful w va Dont you ou U think you o lo n iUD tJ q wn OUI Ur UI wife's t t ug tugs by hy maY i u a liberal b n contri contri- hut on to lo th thO j poor box Neither am ani la 10 thief continued the x valet I I 1 never stole an anything in In my ray life either for tor or m myself eJ or 01 for Her lIeI Grace but hut I have ha a pocketbook et ook full of notes JivIn givIng In ing dates circumstances of or hotel thefts committed by Prince and Prin- Prin cos coss Wrede nn anti and by other servants of the household Indeed the lie Princess not only stole stoic silver in the hotels 18 where she lived but oven even in private I houses where she was an honor honored d guest The and arni most of ot their servants ser are arc simply Imply a band bantI of thieves and amI Miss Mf the tho housekeeper knew lenew all along that the silver sliver placed in lies her care from lIm time to Ume time was not acquired honestly Upon information information tion furnished by me the States State's at attorney attorney at- at torney has lodged half halt a dozen detectives de do- in Castle fl B c orr and antI scaled sealed up the silver vaults tilde sideboards boards etc Tho rho Wrede's crimes wont went undetected because they traveled always alwa's in a fast auto n never nevet vel by rail and because on or leaving they usually took the opposite direction from froni the one stipulated The stolen silver r was sent cent by freight to tolie the lie Castle The Tho Princess values it by weight only and boasts that she stole altogether pounds of ot white while metal Hotel keepers were loathe to suspect the Royal Hoyal couple since th the always alwa's travel with a n suite of at least thirty persons The servants in tho ho Palace are arc frequently changed If a 0 man or woman is not good at stealing their Graces have no use uso for or him or her hor and dismissal follows Vrle No Xu 1 The Princess who whose e pictures figured guro In the thc Am American papers was Ills His Graces Grace's first wife and according to the tile French courts the 1110 only one Sho She Is ls a Hungarian by birth and her first matrimonial venture venturo was with Baron Daron Dobrzanski a diplomat The Holy Synod obligingly divorced her to give her hel husband a chance to marry malTY some richer woman Some Somo time tImo later luter sho she became Princess Wrede and when the Prince got tired of tier her he discovered a flaw in the Holy Synod divorce orco appealed to the Munich Courts as a German Prince and had his marriage annulled Madam went vant to Paris an and had the decree declee of the Munich Court set aside For this reason rea rca reason son she sho is entitled to call herself Princess In tn France Prance while outside out- out side tho the Spanish Consort now accused accused accused ac ac- of oC thieving is ts recognized The hungarian hungarian- Russian Hungarian Russian Princess was Ivas on Oil th tho Ito stage in Paris and NewYork New NewYork York and Is related in some way to Beverage tho the sculptor |
