COUNTESS ARRESTED
ACCUSED OF BEING A SPY. PLOT AGAINST CZECHO-SLOVAKIA ALLEGED. The Prague correspondent of the Times says it is reported from Bratislaya that Countess Louise Esterhazy, a member of a famous Hungarian family, has been arrested at her country seat in Mita, Slovakia, on a charge of spying on behalf of the Hungarian Government. The Countess, who is aged twenty-four, is now a Czecho-Slovakian subject, and is alleged to be of a romantic, unbalanced temperament with revolutionary activities. She has been long suspected. Her arrest was due to the fact that she inadvertently left sealed, unaddressed letters on the counter of a Cracow bank where she transacted business. They were opened and found to contain material connecting her with a conspiracy, formed by members of the Polish-Hungarian aristocracy with the object of separating Slovakia from the rest of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic. Search of her country house revealed further important evidence.
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Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 9
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151COUNTESS ARRESTED Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 9
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