RAKE'S FATAL JEWEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12818, 18 March 1905, Page 2 (Supplement)

RAKE'S FATAL JEWEL.

£100,000 DISSIPATED IN THREE YEARS.

The follies of Franz Kutzner. which have been tho talk of Galicia for the last three yearn, have ended in a manner equally strange and tragic. Three years ago Kutzner came into a fortune of £100,000, which he promptly proceeded to dissipate. His eccentricity was such that he kept this money largo sum of it in gold—in his rooms at Cracow, and whenever he came to tho Austrian capital brought it with him, under the guard of two professional bullies, to • each of whom he paid £500 a year. Kutzner became enamoured of one of tho handsomest and most vicious women in Austria. llm fortune, already dwindling, rapidly vanished, alto-

gether under Iter tuition. Thirty thousand pounds wen!, on carriages, horses, jewellery and dress for the rapacious harpy whom he had tho misfortune to love. Pis-regarding the protects of his guardian bullies, ho finally presented her with a I duplicate key of his precious money-chest. 1 bidding her help herself as she liked. The ! permission was made the most of. When ■ in the early hours of the morning Kutzner ' returned from a gambling hell where lie had j got rid of all his ready money and personal i jewellery, he found the money-chest ab- ! solutely empty, save for a. diamond and sapphire scarf-pin, which had evidently Ik en overlooked. The woman had flown. Reduced to desperation, Kutzner determined to kill himself. lie wrote a note to tho woman, saying, "In robbing me you have overlooked one little thing That you will hud in mv heart." On returning from posting the letter he removed his shirt and drove the , scarf-pin into hie hearty