LADY COMPANION SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
BERLIN. 22nd Decombei\ Further details of the double murdev at Graetz, where Count Meilcfcynski Bhob his wife and nephow owing to finding them in the former's room, show that the Count, on returning from 'his club, went 1 to his own bedroom, but Rearing noises, which he attributed to burglars, took &> gun downstairs. The tragedy followed. His wife's lady companion was Beri» ously wounded when she rushed between!' the Count and his wife. "> The, husband then roused the servants, and retired to his room, with ft report of the murder, and informed the authori* ties. Count Mcilczynski \was formerly dubb«4" "The Rod Count" because of his fierce y opposition to Prussiah rule. Later h« joined the Moderate Right Wing Party, v although he was fined in 1909 for making " an incendiary speech accusing the Germans of treating the Polos liko"wiltb beasts. A crowd at Poscn this year mobbedhim for attending a banquet in honoun of the Kaiser. His carnage was bom-' barded with stones, and its occupants, drenched with water.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1913, Page 7
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