A ROMANTIC WEDDING.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13892, 24 December 1913, Page 5

A ROMANTIC WEDDING.

COUNT MEILCZYNSKI'S ANTE-

CEDENTS

THE COUNTESS' LIAISON,

Berlin, Dec. 22.

Count Meilczynski, who shot hils

-. ife and Jier .lover,' her nephew, in 7895 was a suitor ,lor" ■.■.■tit©./hand-of, Count Potocki's beautiful daughter. • Ik' shot'himself in the breast because the Count opposed the- marriage, and he never entirely "recovered1 fro*** He effects of the wound.

: Moved by the incident Count' Fotocki yielded, and the marriage" fc-ok f-foi'e.. For some time the ctfuple' v/tre' lu.s,py,. and two daughters aflir' a" sen.' wdr-j.born. Subsequently Corait jVIeiJT--czynslai ccsfided to his friend^ that, his wife- wss under undesirable influence.- He sold his estate ?n<l took the Countess and his family to Bresden. :

The Countess and her son quitted the new home, and stayed with relatives of the Husband, whose absorbing passions were, politics and 'andseape painting. He divided his time between the Reichstag, and his studio, living alicme. His Berlin residence was a perfect museum of paintings and art objects collected' from various countries.

His wife, who received from her husband a regular income, succeeded in 1912 to her brother's large fortune, and' also to Daftowymokre Castle, the scene of the tragedy.

Relatives, feariaig that she would fall under former influences, effected a reconciliation, and the Couafc joined her at Dakowymo&re. The .'eiio^td union t however, was soon ci'.iud-vi. The Countess, who was then ?<B, frirmed a friendship with the 24-year-old Count Mianczynski, whose mother ;»as her half-sister. The friendship /became tlie talk, of the neighbourhood.