ATTACK ON A BARON.
UNLUCKY VISIT TO WIFE. ASSAULTED BY HER. RELATIVES. LONDON. Dec. 23. A Vienna message says that the Baron E.-nil Taxis, formerly a dashing Hungarian cavalry officer, and now a racehorse owner, has returned to Vienna suffering from many wounds, sustained while visiiing his wife* at her castle at Keilerhof, on the banks of the Danube. The Baroness is a celebrated society beauty, and her first husband was a Czocho-Slovakian Minister. She quarrelled with Baron Taxis a few month."! after marrying, and they separated. They met at Vienna, accidentally, last week and the Baroness invited her husband to Helierhof. While walking in the park the wife's brother suddenly appeared, and abused and struck Taxis. Another man threw a sack over Taxis' head. He heard the voices of five assailant:?, including his wife's father, and he was then mercilessly beaten, until he was le:ffc unconscious. He staggered to the house of the station master, who dressed the wounds. The Baron is prosecuting his wife and relatives for assault.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19218, 6 January 1926, Page 9
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