GIANT'S LOVE LETTERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14375, 21 May 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

GIANT'S LOVE LETTERS.

:■:-■ m KAISER'S SERVANT AS CORESPONDENT. Letters on royal notepaper, sent from Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and Sandriiagham House, and written by a giant, were read in a divorce case heard by Mr. Justice Bargravo'Deane, Mr. Murphy explained that the writer ot the letters, a German, named Conrad Hoepfner, who was a giant pftbin or 6ft 6in, came to this country with the German Emperor on his State visit to England in 1907. ; He was supposed to be attached to the Kaiser's entourage, and wrote the letters to Mrs." Louisa Kreiling, wife of Mr. Louis Kreiling, who lived at the Green Dragon publichouse, Maddox-street, W. Mr. Kreiling now sued for a divorce. Hoepfner, according to counsel, was served with the citation in ' divorce at Buckingham Palace; and apparently remained in the Royal service after the departure of the Kaiser. Mr. Murphy said Mr. Kreiling was "married in 1895, and in 1908 he and his wife took the Green Dragon publio-house in the wife's name. Hoepfner was introduced to Mr. and Mis. Kreiling at the Green Dragon, and he became a regular customer there. In 1908 the husband discovered a bundle of letters, all written from royal residences, in the most affectionate terms and ; addressed to Mis. Kreiling. The first letter, from Buckingham Palace, dated Oceober 5, was addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Kreiling, and ran: — ; "I hope to bo with you at the dear old spot on Friday, and to invite myself to Sunday dinner." The next (also addressed ;to both husband and wife), dated front Windsor Castle, said: .. - " I am sending you the banc! programme for the Kaiser/ State dinner last night. If you and Mrs. Kreiling could make it possible to come down to Windsor to-morrow I will show you over the finest rooms you have ever seen. Come between 1 and 3, as the Kaiser comes back at 3.30." • The love-letters subsequent to* this brief correspondence were, said Mr. Murphy, undated, but were all WRITTEN OX THE ROYAL NOTEPAPER. from Buckingham Palace, Sandringham, and Windsor Castle. They began: ; " Louisa, my own darling sweetheart, my darling, whom death shall.not part from me." Another letter, counsel said, contained this passage: • ' . , • . "When I get up, my love, I picture you. . . . . lam your own true, loving husband." And one from from Buckingham Palace ran: ' ' < ■■ "I have been dreaming about you; all night." Another letter, addressed from Sandringham House, dated December 2, 12 o'clock, began: "My own darling little wife," and contained a request that Mrs. Kreiling would make arrangements for them to stay together when Hoepfner returned to London. When the husband found these letters he taxed his wife with misconducting herself with Hoepfner, but she laughed, and said there was nothing in it. A day or two later Hoepfner called at the Green Dragon, and Mr. Kreiling, who was very angry, went for him." After a violent scene Hiepfner left the house. On Christmas Day, 1908, a friend of the family named Vicars called. There .were other sc'r/.ies, and at last the husband threatened to turn his wife out, but as she was the licensee of the house could not do so. The house was given up in- March, and Mrs. Kreiling then wrote to her husband's saying that she did not intend to return.to her husband, and that she was going to the man she 'loved. Mr. Murphy added that before the letters were discovered by the husband corespondent had visited the wife at the Green Dragon and spent a Sunday afternoon with her in the house. '._., ' • His lordship granted a decree nisi, with costs, against Hoepfner