A POLISH COUNT

Evening Star, Issue 15373, 23 December 1913, Page 6

A POLISH COUNT

AVENGES HIS HONOR

Press Association—By Telegraph-

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BERLIN, December 21. Count Meilczynski. who suspected his wife's relations with his nephew. Count Altred, on returnino; from his club, went to his own room. Hearing noises, and attributing them to burglars, he. took his gun downstairs. There he found his wife and nephew, and shot them both

lady companion was seriouslv wounded while rushing between the hu«. band and wife.

J.he husband afterwards roused the servants, retired to his room, wrote a report ot the murder, and then informed the authorities.

Mctle/.ynski was formerlv dubbed " the Red Count ' because he was a fierce opponent of Prussian rule. Later on he joined he Moderate Right Wing partv, although be was fined ,1, 1909 f iu - an incendiarv speech. accusing the Germans of troatinlr he Poles as wild beasts. A crowd at I osen this year mobbed him when attending a banquet in honor of the Kaiser His carnage was bombarded with stones' and the occupants were drenched with water

LIFE STORY OF THE PAIR.

BERLIN'. December 22.

(Koreivcrl December 23. ;t 10.50 a.m.) _ Mcikv.ync-ki. who in 1895 war, a suitor ""■ the hand of Count Potocki's beautiful "•.tighter, shot himvdf in the breast hecause the ( ount. opposed, the- niarriaco lie neve- entirely recovered from the effe-f, ;>t his wound Moved hy this, incident. < "tint Pctocki yielded his consent, to the marriage. For some time, the two lived happily together. Two daughters and a so:i were. born. Suhsequentlv.Mnilczvnski confided to his friends that'ids wife was under an undesirable-, influence. He, r>o |d his estate, and took the Countess and their family to Dresden. The Countess and her .-•on quitted the new home, a. m \ .staved with relatives of the husband, whoso absorbing parsions were politics and landscape painting. He divide,! hi* time between V-V' I ' <,,c 1 n * ,a! T , !l,l 'l "is stitfio. living n i„ 11( , I he Berlin reeideiKo was a perfect, museum "i paml lings and art. objects that, had been collected tu various countries. The wife who received from her husband a. regular income, succeeded in 1912 to her brother's large fortune, and also to Dakowvmokre Castle, the scene of the tragedy ' The relatives, fearing she would faU tinder ']„, former undesirable influences, effected -.' reconciliation, and flic Count, joined her at, Dakowvmokre. The renewed union was soon clouded. The Comniess. who was then .r>3 years old. formed a friendship with the tuonty-four-year-old Count Mianczmski whose mother was her half-sister..' Thi* friendship became Hi" tnlk of the neighbor hood. r