Politics and Painting.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 96, 23 December 1913, Page 5

Politics and Painting.

A COUNTS ABSORPTION,

LOSES WIFE'S AFFECTIONS. |By Electric Telegraph—Copyright J [Uniied Press Association.] (Received 11.5 a.m.) Berlin, December 22. Count Meilczvtski, in 1895, a suitor tor the hand of Count Potocki's beautiful daughter, shot himself in the breast because the Count opposed his marriage and never entirely recovered from the effects of the wound. .Moved by the incident Potocki yielded.

The marriage for some time was happy, and two daughters and a son were born.

Subsequently Aleitczynski confided to a friend's wife that he was under undesirable influence.

He subsequently sold his estate and took the Countess and his family to Dresden.

The Countess and her son quitted the new home and stayed with relatives of her husband's, whose absorbing passions for politics and landscape painting divided his time between the Reichstag and his studio, where he lived alone. ,

His Berlin residence was a perfect museum of paintings and art objects, collected in various countries.

The wife, who received from her husband a regular income, succeeded in 191.2 to her brother's large fortune, also Dakowymokae Castle, the scene of the tragedy. The relatives, fearing that she would fall under former influences, effected a reconciliation and the Count joined her at Dakowymokae and renewed the union, but it was soon clouded. The (Countess, then thirty-eight, formed a friendship with the 24-year-old Count Mcilezytski, whose mother was her half-sister. The friendship became the talk of the neighbourhood.

Count Meilczytski suspecting his wife's relations with his nephew, Count Alfred, found the latter in his wife's room in his castle near Graetz and shot both dead. The parties moved in the highest Polish circles.