POLISH TRAGEDY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16431, 24 December 1913, Page 10

POLISH TRAGEDY.

SOME FAMILY HISTORY.

'■ i 'Bj : Asiociation—Copyright ] ;' ; J ; BERLIN, December 22. j |. Couint Me'ilizyli'ski, who shot lus wife ; ?,and her nephew, was in 1895 a »; suitor, for the hand of Count Potocki's | beautiful daughter'.. He shot himself in | .because the Count opposed |- Ithe.; marriage,..-. and ■■ he never entirely •.recovered ' from., the effects of the 'wound;',' . " Moved 1 by the incident, Count Po- | tocki yielded to the marriage. , For r ;*6ome time the couple were happy, and ;.'twi£ ; daughters and a eon were born. , 1 ' Subsequently Meilizynski confided to k friends" that his wife was under undesirable influence. He subsequently sold }: his estate,' and: took the Countess and Ithe family to Dresden. | The Countess and her son then quitted their new home, and stayed with ; relatives of the Husband, whose ab-.-'sorbing passions were politics and' land-

escape-'painting. He divided his time the Reichstag and the studio, ■'• living alone at his Berlin residence, ■» which was a perfect museum of paint|ings and art objects collected in yari- | ous countries. * His. wife, who ireceived from her hus|„band a regular income, succeeded in f 1912 to her brother's large fortune, and jg also Dakowymokre Castle, the scene of S the tragedy. :' Her relatives, fearing thab she would i fall under former influences; effected ■ a reconciliation, and the Count joined | her at Dakowymokre. i: The renewed union was soon cloudied. I The Countess, then thirty-eight years <i of age, formed a friendship with the jj! twenty-four-year-old Count Mianczyni ski, whose mother was her, half-sister. -.'..: .Their friendship became the talk of the neighbourhood. BTORY OF COUNTESS'S LADY «*'* ! COMPANION. BERLIN, December 23. ' (Received December 24, 12.55 a.m.) Countess Meilizynski's lady companion states that the young count came to the castle for the purpose of borrowing .money from his.uncle. He knocked at ''"; the countess's door at three o'clock in ~,. ,the morning, and asked her to order a e - motor-car to enable him : to leave. She ■r. 6aid,: "You are drunk. Sleep it off •-first." The young count forced his way :> into the room. v At the same'moment husband appeared and fired. :