DEATH OF PRINCESS DE CHIMAY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10969, 18 July 1898, Page 3

DEATH OF PRINCESS DE CHIMAY.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.-COPYRIGHT.) Received July 17, 5 p.m. London, July 16. The death is announced of Princess de Chimay, who recently eloped with a Hungarian gipsy. Th!i revives a most romantio story, The Prlnceu was foimerly Miss data Word, daughter of Captain Eber H. Ward, an ecceutiio cbsraoter kcown as "Ktog of the Likes," of tbe city of Detroit, in tbo State of Michigan. She marilod, nhl'et yet In her teens, Ptinoe Joseph de Chimay, of Belgium. He was 14 yean older than the lady, and bore a reputation in tbe fast world with which ho wee atsoolated of a moat unenviable kind. There ?. as o feeling of pity for the girl when Is v.-os known she had consented to change her marriage portion of £400,000 f.r tbe title of Princess. The wedding day came off, and was celebrated with prinoely splendor. There were present at the fanotlon Mr Whitelaw Ktid (Amerloan Ambassador), Lord Lytton (Biltiih Ambassador), Baron de Bwns (Belgian Ambassador), (be Duo de Fcz.'ciso, and many others of I note in tbe social sod political world. At the oeremony the Papal Nuncio asked the bilde if she had renounced the Ptoteßtant religion, end she answered in the bffitmatlve. And bo, amid a fit ire of j wels and tl'ks and puiple and fine linen, they woie made oue "until death did them part." No* U was that the P/lnee had a " high old lime," and eeosntrlo Coptain Ward'a bard Gamed dollnrs went f pinning down the short and p'essant road that leads to smash in trn>y merry style. The Prlnoeas meantime grew weary. She did her duty a? a wife and a mother la introducing to tbe world the Comteao Marie Elizabeth Catherine Anatole de Rfquet and Prince Marie Joseph Acatole Pierre Alphonße de R!quet-ie., two oblldren— and then the also went the paoo. Ino^g. she went aboat the ttreetß of gay Paris, vltlted dance salons, cbefied tbe /oiks on the Boulevards, and (trolled into the cafua, and la these tost the met her " fate," A Hungarian gipsy violinist wee a member of a ktrolllog baod of musicians playing in one of the oafdi, and the Hungarian gipsy violinist and the PrlnceßS e:oped, whereupon the Prince applied for a divorce, and got it, the Pildccb being ordered to pay 75,000fr a yeaf for the support of her children. Jean Klgo was deeorlbed as a tall, awkward, skinny individual of 35, The Princess was 22 yeer« of age when dlvoroed, and she spent the fine Chiietmas Eve after her divorce in iha mud but, of her fnture parent! In Hungary, She mbicquently tinned a contract to sing In a muelo ball, Blgo piayicg the violin in the oroheitra,