GERMAN PRINCE’S LIAISON
COPENHAGEN, October 25. According to mesages from Vienna and Berlin, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg Avas attacked on Sunday by a Miss Helene Rybicka, a musical artist. The Prince visited her house, and she threw vitriol on him. The Prince, who has lost his right eye, was operated on on Monday. There are fears that the left eye may be destroyed. Miss Rybicka afterwards fired a revolver at her breast, killing herself. She was the daughter of a police officer, and the Prince had been her friend for many years. It is reported that he failed to keep bis promise to marry her within six months, and that lately he had shown preference for another woman. Prince Leopold ran from the house crying : “Help me, God. I am blind.’’ He was a captain in the Hussars with the rank of major in the Bulgarian cavalry*
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Otago Witness, Issue 3216, 3 November 1915, Page 17
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