POLISH DOMESTIC TRAGEDY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 24 December 1913, Page 5

POLISH DOMESTIC TRAGEDY

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IT OABLB—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGKT BERLIN Dec. 22. Count Meilczytski in 1895 was a suitor for the hand of Count Potoski's beantiful daughter, and shot himself in the breast because the Count opposed the marriage. He never entirely recovered the effect of the wound. Moved by the incident, Count Potoski '.yielded to the marriage. For some time they weie happy, and two daughters and a son were born. Subsequently Count Meilczytski confided in friends that his wife was under an undesirable influence. He subsequently sold his estate and took the Countess and their family to Dresden. The Countess soon quitted their new home and-stayed with relatives of her husband, whose absorbing passions were politics and landscape painting. He divided his time between the Reichstag and his studio while living alone in Berlin. His residence was' a perfect museum of paintings and art objects collected in various countries. The wife, who received from her husband a regular income, succeeded, in 1912, to her brother's large fortune, and also to Dakowymokal Castle, the scene of the tragedy. The relatives, fearjng she would fall under former influences, effected a reconciliation, and the Count joined her at Dakowymokal and renewed their union, which was soon again clouded. The Countess, then 38, formed a, friendship with the twenty-four-year-old Count Mianezynski, whose mother was her half sister, and the friendship became the talk of the neighborhood. ,