POLISH SCANDAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8611, 23 December 1913, Page 5

POLISH SCANDAL

"THE RED COUNT"

MURDERS HIS WIFE AND

NEPHEW

BERLIN, December 21

Count Mielzijnski, suspecting his wife’s relations with, his nephew', Count Alfred, found tho latter in his wife’s room in a oa.stlo near Graotz, and shot both dead.

Tho parties moved in the highest Relish circles.

WIFE’S COMPANION WOUNDED,

(Received December 23, 0.10 a.m.) BERLIN, December 22. Mielczynski, on returning from his club, went to his own bedroom. Hearing noises, and attributing them to burglars, he took a gun downstairs and tho tragedy followed.

His wife’s lady companion was seriously wounded in rushing between tho husband and wife. Tho husband roused tho servants, and thou retired to his room and wrote a report of the murder, and informed tho authorities. Mielczynski was formerly dubbed "the Rod Count” because he was a fierce opponent of Prussian rule. Later he joined tho Moderate Right iVing party, although ho was fined in) an incendiary speech accusing the Germans of treating tho Poles liko wild beasts. A crowd at Posen in 1913 mobbed him for attending a banquet in honour of the Kaiser. His carriage way bombarded with stones and the occupants were drenched with water.