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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-2-24, Page 6POE'S 1cd pbly have been con - lig !IAEA fuoulsed not with thoseossiof a man. It was clear that if one of tire FAtfq��t;�� a¢a It family was pommeled in the'• Sta����li+ii a tragedy it must have been a great } ape, such es en orling-outeng or a1 chimpanzee. If that was as it mast ; EXTRAORDINARY MURDER EX- have belonged to a wandering show- i CITES FRANCE. man who had passed through the town at the time. I — A theory has been put forward that Virions Ape Detectives Thine:Maythe ape escaped from its house or eage during the night, ran through i the empty streets of the town, and Christophie. 1 was -attracted by the light in the `fourth -storey window of the Chris- An extraordinary murder mystery tophie house., Then . the ape rain up exciting France just now is said to a rainpipe, .reached the window, en - repeat the moat remarkable and es- tered the room, attacked the girl, beat sential feature of Edgar Allan Poe's and choked her to death, and upset famous and gruesome tale, "The a lamp in the struggle. Finally it Murders of the Rue Morgue." escaped in the way it came. The mot plausible explanation of An Important Clue. this present French murder mystery When the facts in "The Murders is that it was committed by a great of the Rue Morgue" were so ingeni- ape. This is the theory upon which ously cleared up by Poe's fictitious the police are now working. Thus detective, M. Dupin,.it was found thet one of the most fantastic stories ever the ape had been surprised shaving imagined seems tohave been re- itself with its owner's razor, that the enacted in real life nearly 100 years owner pursued the animal through the aftr it was written. streets, and that it ran up a lightning In the present case the victim was rod, carrying the razor to the wo- a young woman, Mlle. Marie Chris- men's room, where it slaughtered tophie, aged 24, belonging to an old diem. and wealthy family, living ab 43 Cours The unintelligible sounds heard Sablon, at Clermont-Ferrand, an im- coming from the room had not been portant French provincial city, dwelt on very strongly in the Cler- The family consisted of the dough- mon t-Ferrand case but the curious ter, Marie; her mother, and a discoveries about fingerprints add a brother Jean Christophie, one year modern scientific element to the lat Have Killed Mlle. Marie. younger than herself. They enjoyed est mystery. a large income,and lived in a fine! old house. The son was called outENEMIES OF FIGHTING MEN as a soldier on the outbreak of war,' Soldiers but obtained a comfortable position Insects Which Make the on the staff, which enabled him tot -Life Miserable. live at home in Clermont-Ferrand. I Insects which prove such a nuisance Mademoiselle Christophie occupied to the fighter in time of war are sim- a bedroom on the fourth floor of the ply those which affect man in time house. At half -past two in the morn- of peace, but owing to the different ing agonized shrieks in different circumstances which arise in wartime, I tones and cries of "Fire!" coming their effects are more violent and :from this house were 'hear by the more persistent. Roughly speaking j A ' , neighbors. The firemen broke into the ca CURIOIS Bj$I'�1, with a perpendicular bank; but, ow- of a dugout. It would seem that Suggesting a Warrior in an Arctic Expedition. Protective -coloration winter uniforms, in 'the form of white clothing have been adopted by both the Italians and the Austrians for outpost work in the winter war in the Trentino, where the snow covers the hills and valleys hi one wide, unbt;oken white expanse. With the same complete- ness with which the Italian authorities equipped the army for the field, the Italian War Office, during the past autumn months, saw to it beforehand that a serviceably designed winter campaigning kit was provided for use, tfrhere necessary. The new kit, which an outpost sentry is shown wearing, not only renders a soldier practically invisible amidst snow, but also serves to protect him from the piercing cold. It effectually covers the head and shoulders, and keeps the feet dry, in addition to maintaining the warmth of the body, and allowing free action of the limbs (Treve). fd '0, ', ', 'a' SW%M. lai..�'2__s i W` ,il...5w 1MMUP\ v'1 C.ii l..,r \\.\'‘I -r1 e nri ,,,,,,,, the n• " • with 'Cr awe r �• Syrup and craving for sweets e '• ., - completely satisfied Bread aucl 'Crews form a perfectly s /1 fl 1 food—rich in :11 , Edward: bur dint gy to build .� 6 h 'Ith cluldren. k • Crown Brand Corn of Canada. little of so poundsl everynd vy`arthat fp uY the is 'Crown Brand'—the children's favorite—ie equally good for an cooking !purposes and ,•--gig SScandy Spread [tread Brand' Cura the children's will be ,rand' Wood the elements up sturdy, Syrup that millions -ss--------------s . il grating. •• ' L%LY WHITE" ' is aAtr e Write COM SyritA; not So pronounced in favor as 'Crown !'.band': .lora may:Arefor- it. Rae YOUR GROCER—IN 2,8, a0 AND 2D1B.TINS The Canada Starch Co. Limited, Montreal V Manufacturers of the famous Edwardsburg Brands 29 IIMINIIIVfl,,PY W ' OWN' ) ORG a p COIN ��f _: Jell ' - i N — But by now we had reached the wreck -c ager ERR U DEAD OR.ALIVE REMARKABLE STORY OF A PARIS N1WSPAPER. Folio Hears He Was Caught ln' Gambling Den With Grown • Prince. An extraordinary and drametie ;itory of the disappearance of Herr Krupp, the German Canon King, is related by the "Excelsior" of Paris. In November, 1902, when the news of Krupp's death was known in Ger- many, many strange stories were told, Soma said that the famous ironmaster had been strangled at Capri; others affirmed that he com- mitted suicide at his villa at Essen; • in whispers a ,scandal, was related which was supposed to have ended in the death of Herr Frederick Al- bert Krupp. ases he stopped work because he was getting money that he had no New Flier's Last Plunge. ( u "As far as I gathered, viewed from e the ground, the fall was full of ex- citement and our troops for four miles along the lines had stood up and cheered to a man for several min- utes on end. In fact a few had said to the officer in command of the bat- 1 talion—so he told us—that they all felt it was worth four days discomfort to see it come down 7,000 feet, as the engine was going all the time, and it only took thirty-five seconds to -drop the best part of two miles. You can imagine the pace it was going when it hit the ground. Finishing its des - se for. His imagination was limit - d. But, gradually he bought himself another pair of trousers and his wife a coat and gaudy handkerchief to tie over her head, then a blue 'shirt for himself, and boots for the children, and ultimately a gramophone. He sees all these things in this life and tis `missis and kiddies' better fed. Ire • is working no harder than he did formerly, and he feels there is some- thing of a miracle at work, • "He is getting an idea of how much he used to spend on vodka. He can hardly believe 'it, but he sees the con- sequence and he really does not want to go back to the stuff. The Russian woman is, just as sprightly with her tongue, as her sister hi ---- cent in a nose dive as I said with its of `inner circle" conducted, of course, engine going, it'first struck the top king, n divide these pests into two the house, and hurried to Mademors categories: elle Christophio's room, where the fire Those which pierce the skin of men was burning. or of .animals on which the soldier is Trey found that it was already to a great extent dependent—for in - nearly extinguished, and soon put an stance, the horse; and end to it. Jean Christophie and his Those which interfere with his food mother had apparently been busily supplies. engaged in trying to put out the, It is only a few years ago that the blaze. The big old-fashioned woodenspread of the bubonic plague was as - four -poster bedstead, with canopy, sociated first with rats and then with had been partially burnt up. ; rat fleas. The commonest rat fleas In the midst of the ruins, by the in all tropical and subtropical noun - side of the bed, lay the dead body of tries infest man, and if they should I Marie Christophie. have fed upon a plague -infected rat Her Body Bore Scars. and subsequently bite man, their bites communicate bubonic plague. Plague In due course a judicial inquiry —the old English "Black Death"—is into her death was begun, and at a real peril in the armies now oper- once the Interesting fact was estab- ating in Asia and in certain parts of lished that her death was not due' Africa. 1 directly to the fire or to suffocation: Just as some fleas attack one spe-' caused by it. She had received se-' cies of mammal or bird and avoid vere blows on the head from a blunt closely allied species, so the human' instrument probably capable of cans- flea has its favorites . and its aver•- , ing death. She had also received in- 'cions. There is a Turkish proverb Jean Christophie said his sister juries in may parts of the body. I which says, "An Englishman will burn was' a bed to catch a Ilea." subject to heart disease, and thought perhaps the most important of bit - that when she found that a fire had ing insects is the mosquito, certain broken out she had an attack of this, species of which convey malaria—a disease, which killed her. ; disease which has probably played a "How do you explain that your • bigger part in the history of the world sister's bady bears marks that show than that conveyed by any other in - she was beaten to death?" asked sect, the judge; in the case. 1 Finally, we come to a series of in - "I cio not belive she was beaten,";sects whit affect the food of soldiers said young Christophie. "I believe and sailors. One is the flour -moth, the injuries to her head were caused whose larva b'tr•rows through the sol - HIGH IN THE MR ENDS WITH THE GERMAN'S PLUNGE TO DEATH. Only Took Thirty-five Seconds to Drop Best Part of Two Miles. A remarkable description of a bat- tle in midair between an officer of the Royal British Flying Corps and a German airman whose machine was brought down is contained in the fol- lowing letter written by the British aviator to the London Times. "Yesterday being the first fine day, I had instructions to go up in an. F. E. with 'P,' as observer, to take some photographs over —. It was about the most unpleasant job going, as the numerous woods about there are absolutely bristling with 'Archies' of no mean prowess, as I can testify, having had, perforce, to sample some of their wares on many a -reconnais- sance of late. "It took us roughly an hour to get up to 9,000 feet, which time we spent between -- and climbing, climbing and climbing still. The air was pretty full of machines, it being the first fine day for some consider- d t 11 t h' 't d cent and s ing to the fact that our spec was so 'e ows wa c mg t s es ec-, great and that we were doing com- ing its course to be headed toward piete turns in about twice the length them had taken refuge in the dugout. of our machine, the centrifugal force The roof was built of trunks of trees was so great 'P' couldn't hold the of reassuring dimensions, covered machine gun on its mounting; it: with three feet of earth. I swung down, and though the whole' "The impact was so great that ow gun only weighs twenty-eight pounds ing to the weight of the engine it he could not pull' it up square. I had gone slap through the roof and "Things being' at the moment die; buried its nose into the bottom of the tinctly unsatisfactory, we weren't dugout, leaving a portion of its tail. sorry to see the Hun' head for home. outside, but the rest so telescoped as After him we went, both diving lust- to occupy not more than a cubic yard. ily, while 'P.,' more familiarly known Remembering the fact that this type as 'Pongo,' gave him the rest of the; of machine has an all steel frame and drum—another twenty-eight rounds. that behind the pilot's seat there is nothing of weight, it helps to empha- uicker Than "Archie." sizeat what colossal speed he must Q ip "I was beginning to get a little aux-' have been travelling. The four owe - us, as we were getting very low pants of the dugout were all wound - and expecting 'Archie' to get us any - ed as a result, but none seriously. minute, when we got him. A lucky; "Of what we saw in the dugout, shot found its billet and the pilot was ten feet by twelve, by the light.of an no more, T1te evolutions that ma- ,electric torch, through the smoke, chine described falling '7,000 feet, with the time being midnight and shells no man at the wheel, were extraordin- going off all round, I shall never for- ary, •viewed from above—first wheels get as long as I live. up, then right way again, a loop,` "As memories of a very gruesome several cartwheels, a nose dive, more occasion I have got two decoration loops, and several turns onto and off ribbons which the observer was wear its back, sideways, until it was lost ing, though no medals were found; to sight almost on the ground. Good one of the ribbons is that of the Iron enoughl • 1 Cross. I have also the magneto from "By this time another F. E., a Brie - the engine and a pistol for firing col - tot scout, and two Q.C.'s had arrived, col- ored flares to range their anti-aircraft but—fortunately for ,me—too late to batteries on our machines, a portion of the fabric and »laps, though the claim a share in the. finale. The next I remember. doin was lookin atm crosses from the wings had already by the top of the bed falling upon her. i deer's biscuit and not only consumes - g g Y I thine: the other injuries were due a considerableportion of it, but ren- able time. We saw no Huns, though watch -12.45. The incident over, we been collared—and a few regimental to her fallingon the table and chair we afterward heard that there were buttons from his tunic, which we ,dens it so unpalatable that Sergeant started .climbing again, as those ne. by the bedside in her terrified con g three hanging about ,behind their shared out to the mechanic and ser- Daniel Nicol, of the 92 Gordon Hi h- lines, and worrying a number of our fernal photographs had to be done. geant.with us." dition." lenders, tells us that, "during the ex- A • this point the engine .began to have peditfon to Egypt; in 1801, soma vex- fellows doing photography. Twenty a say in the matter, and one cylinder! 3'— to 12 found us east of —, not far The Mother Arrested. The case remained an utter. rays - sets were dispatched to Matra Bay for decided to stifle. So homeward we!. PROHIBITION IN RUSSIA. short of 10,000 feet up, and distinctly tvenaed our weary way. Quite an ova - chilly. tion on landing—the only person who "Seekers" Have Marc Money .Than t for many weeks Then the local bullocks and others to Smyrna anc cry. o newspapers began to hint at a shock -1 Aleppo for bread, which was furnished Strategy in Air Battle. ing state of affairs. They said that; us by the Turks—a kind of hard, dry a monoplane a - Mnw Christophie was devoted to her" husk. We were glad to get this, as l "A biplane andp P "That Russia will continuo after the son and was not fond of her `laugh-.' we were then put on full rations, and peered east of us, the biplane. leading, the commencement of the scrap. The:}var to be striate teetotalncontinue be- Ate ter. our biscuits were bad and full of with ample evidence of being in a satisfaction of knowing that the Ynobody an of our men could only hurry, with the monoplane which Johnny who'd. pushed three holes into lieves."So says John Foster- Fraser last three rumors culminated rn worms; many „ appeared to be one of our' Moran type his right arm—considerately avoiding in his book, "Russia of To -clay," the arrest of Mme. Christophie and; eat therm in the dark, pp her son for causingthe girl's death. The biscuits became infected `luring —overhauling it hands over fists. We to touch the bone—had been proper- written after a close-at,hand study g i If the great war had not beenraging • the cooling which takes place between were about 2,500 feet above that ly 'strafed,'didn't bear any weight. of conditions in the Czar's domains. .this would certainly hae been re- ; the baking and packing: The adult `buses, and when within about a l "The. Major was . delighted, as it , "The sale of light beers and wines Y is fairly certain to be allowed in time. •aided as one of the most famous : insect is a perfect nuisance in flout mile I got a glimpse of the mono.: was the first machine of this type to >; p show u r in this criminal cases ever known in Prance, mills, So persistent and numerous are lane's top wing. Black crosses on 1 quarrel, A nurnbea But it is .a matter of doubt whether —m ther and son' these moths at times that they clog a white base. Good enough! I of Fokisers, as the German Moranes ever again tite spurts 0: 011 kind Tho Chrf most a es owill be permitted. •--made a effective defence. They . the rollers with their cocoons and" "Down went the P. E. nose almost' are called have been giving our ma- le law ere in France sometimes completely stop them. The vertically;'' 2,000 feet we' carne down chines a lot of trouble down south, "Nadirs ,.was the curse Of Russia, toroped the ablest yand with its departure Russia is like to represent them, Mme. Christophie webbing of the elevators in the mills while the air speed indicator went up and it is rather thought that this one n Said she was overcome by horror et : gets covered with them and with their to 160 m.p.h. and then stuck—not may have been a picked pilot sent up tt man joying a new strength after h th levators h f been designed for the purpose, t ut some more heart into the a desponding illness wasn't cheery was the unfortunate-' observer of the Q.C., who' entered into They Know What to do With. theh hub h fought silky skeins and t en o e av ng o p 1 t ti stop working So uniform is the tem of exceeding recognized limits. I ex -other machines working in thus sector charge, u her son Igor- I "As one who has travelled all over ons against accusations. y g that the family had erature of the mill and so favorable petted the F. E. to fold up uncles the of..front. For his first appearance he Russia, knowing it in peace -time, He explainedt Y P man enemies in the Department on to the life of the insect that they com- strain any moment, but she stood it had certainly done remarkably well, time of revolution, and of war, I y p their life -cycle in England in like a rock! Bythis time the other, to report that prohibition has been account of ancient quarrels, and that plete y g driving off three of our, machines and the had inspired these attacks on two months, and in the warmer parts two machines were almost vertically' wounding an observer. For speed and good for the country, T de not mag- yins there is one person in a hundred 'other lands, and 'mother' -is 'very ex- plicit as to what she will do to any- body who. opens the vodka shops again. Pawnshops are doing badly. The latest returns of the savings banks show that deposits have in- creased six -fold, The poorer folk of Russia put in the savings banks over £50,000,000 more during the first year of the ewer than they did the year before the war." • -'l CANADA PAYS THE PENALTY Carlessness is the Cause of Most of the Fires An analysis of the fire losses in 1914, as compiled by the 'Monetary Times, disclos,es some interesting conditions.' This statement subiian- tiates and verifies the change that carelessness is the cause of seventy- five per •cent of Canada's fire loss. It would naturally be expected that the greater number of , fires would be in factories using power of fires for manufacturing processes, and where accumulations of shavings and other wasteare exposed to fire from friction, spontaneous combustion, .or other causes. Such is not the case. By far the greater nunther of fires wore en buildings in which none of these risks occur. Factories contributed only. 59 fires, variousmills only 12; laundries, 5; engine houses, 1; machine shops, 3; sawmills, 12; foundries, 2; while pow- er-houees, .blacksmith shops, canner- ies and others had a clean record. Against this and constituting a re- cord ecord which should be a disgrace to any county, were 676 fires in dwell- ,ings, 138 barns and stables, 384 stores, 46 hotels,' 44 business sections and blocks, 26 warehouses, 18 offices, 11 schools and colleges and 29 sheds. ,$onceof the causes of the fire were: lamps: and lanterns, 20; defective and overheated stoves, furnaces and chimneys, 113; sparks from chimneys, 41; candles, etc., 6; ashes, 8; matches, 69; cigar and cigarette stubs, 15; de- fective gas appliances, 21; oil stoves (upset and exploded, 13;' spontaneous combustion, 18. l All of the foregoing causes may be overcome by the exercise of only ordinary precautions. Not one of Itheni needs to be repeated' during the current year. Canada cannot afford to burn up her resources as she has been doing, As in Great Britain, there is need of husbanding all our avail- ' able assets for the great national work in hand, and it behooves Cana- have diens to make every effort to re- duce in a largo degree the fires re- sulting from causes entirely tinier ' control. them, He pointed out how reason- of America even more rapidly. Sut below us—the Hun had caught up climb he left our machines absolute able was the original explanation of the tragedy. Then it became known that the polioo of Clermont-Ferrand were working on the theory that an ape had committed the mysterious crime. This led enterprising reporters to the discovery that the police had kept generations at least may be produced the biplane and Was emptying his gni• iy, ea he Was well out of the way thousand who would raise his hand a year. Now that the war is spreading in the Near East, a word or two should also be said about an allied species of insect' which infests at times 60 per, cent of the figs of the East. It is a' moth which is spread all over the into it at fifty yards hange. It sub- "I must say that he was rho first moment 1ie 1ad'put three bullets in! the oband gret at the loss of a very gallant fel- aro reduced in number, d to return to the old condition o sequently transpired that just at this e things.. There has been a consider - sequently have run °cress wl o put able decrease in crime since Russe Many -were the stories recounted in. Westpr•alian circles, and it is said of Herr Thyssen, another iron and ' steel magnate, that, when told of Krupp's alleged death, he remarked: "It is a pity! But who can believe it? Yes, I doubt it; but who knows if he will hear of Krupp later?" Certain German newspapers said that the coffin did not contain the re- mains of Krupp, and the Kaiser's funeral oration contained more poli- tical matter than is 'Usually intro- duced into a speech over the remains of a dead man. It will be recalled also that the "Vorwaerts" made cer- tain accusations, which were ,stoutly denied by the organ .of the Krupp family, the "Rheinisch-Westfalische Zeitung " f Men are judged by their actions, women -by their looks, and mules and a sinking' by their strength. r' arm and <one thr:ori •h : tip anything like a real decent show, became teetotal; the number of cases serve s g 1 our jubilation is tinged with re- of insanity has declined; the suicides the main petrol tank, with the result: that the precious flue was pouring 1 Smuchf the episode, itself all over the pilot, observer and fust]- I g r to a ."We of back satisfactorily sea although I ran into varying de - found � 6 g Wrinkles are ow. o .or e c e, • "Darin all the time I 5005 un Rus - catholic 10 its taste, since'a Confess:on a remarkably. record of fingerprints world, and is late lunch, and soon after having en- games of o anon I met no one who Adi•aietnir" years aro arse realized by found in and about the room where. it flourishes on Tice, bran, dried ap- "I started pulling the F. E. out of�. p the mhanre ttutt beoomea noticeable 111 an more or ,about 2 000 Sect above feted up 'our report as, to whether, of disputed the benefits of: the change, too, ch ni,loxlon, If. you nay attention the tragedy occurred and upon the pias, maize, and a great ma•ny o of her nose dive ;not' the machine was worth salving, 1 Manufacturers told me that enforced oto ni'st, almost finnerco•+Utirte, 'i t d l 1 •1' ouIdM t o body of the dead girl. Some of the injuries on the. body of. the girl were, it was teported, ap- parenbly caused by fingers' and thumbs of enormous strength, ',Cher Were not the fingers and thunrhs of youg Christophie, and they differed in typo from those of any other roan pr•oserved in collections of linger- p1int5, The same fingerprints were found on the back of a chair in the bedroom and upon the window pane, "Climbed tic Hein Pipe."" ess nutritious foods. It lays its in the figs while they are being dried in the sun. From the egg a small maggot emerges. half in ever 'wed Therm is a better Y ding ---but, says the cynical friend at our elbow, the best man does not get her, ecompelled If all women were to dress alike . there would be more pa- Oa pews in fashionable churches, • un, as oo su c en u s c. havecrumpled her u , The xverc granted permission to go up to abstinence increased industrial eff1- inevitablyr p 1 3 with ai flight ,'a 'Workingmen rn con a acute was that we found env.' selves wreckage. Xand flight, wency by 25 par cent. Woi I, L s q col eant from m flight and a . me - salves shove- and bellied the uin:Rtr, '• . '�, y g earls more, and though the roar has , and within twenty' rlianie set out about 4 by ear'.', , • 1incr•eased the cosh of living, their tardso Teuton, „i a t of 00 ardslrou brought toa`families ate" better off than before yards of hill. w To,my emend he nener A walk e 5 y > g P,• because none of the hard- saw us ttntll we opened fire. Twenty ]rue q`f, trenches and dugouts about, the war, rounds of lead were planted into the', 100 yards from the German tranches, earned roubles go in vodka. 1 h h screened fore those nearest "I have come aesew; ,few things lc though the apses.: t oug t i Dec th '1 o h y p r tack f s p i hit bHe then. turn.; us fry a slight rise in hettvmen, 'That more amusingly pathetic than rtieirf ea Isis district i int n•oximit Was; ha have been 'soalcers'tor years, ed 'his attention to us, tanning left-, we were in turpleasr 1 y ,as, w a passing directly below ;aeon. apparenrt, its the phewl phewl finding themselves with money which handed and p g V Title necessitated my! +chin on of the bullets carom with must disturb- they did not really know what to do us bs >y g I !to a popendicular bank and doing a i ing regularity, Ail the time star with because the usual channel is Sh 1?neeutii wrak- Five monkeys were :found b esho h r•t- f :tea People! to think tour fete circuit to sea where he'd bo shell lnagltesiunt dares went up and closed to them, e . Y S a s g p r p h little beggar wag describing made you stand still ars a -reek, as the twang is a simple-minded, good fellow, pohco, m Clermont"ertinna, lytXQ Choy all. others should Rook tlin�ough their to, 'rltt, halo Itegg g big 1 first in n were all owl), and inti° fingerprints ita55esa ebonite round us while we did a soft least movement would give one away, and it is really a fact t many how easy it Is to avoid the unsightly wrinkles that surely follow. Wrfi,klen aro a confession to rather Time. The skin must be kept firm and smooth by proper attention and treatment, r'U XT" 10 o, chin food and wrinkle Omer. It bullas up arm, elaetle sues, 181110008 wrinkles tills out de- presslons, prevents dorms of skin caused by oxeeestVe wPrid'e, and restores to your eomplexlo11 that fins appoarnnoe of fr5Nhnens and youth, "VSIT" Is put up le handsome anal bottles, and until the lerug Stores In Canada ening amall completely , Ao eptotiew'osub. tial ;iottcl a0. cams to-doyks for irlal,� elite, sufficient for elm woo two, Day postage, 01 any address In Canada, 'Unit Manufacturing Co„ Limited, Meet. +., 470 Itonoeasiditi 9•Vo„ Torbiltor Heavy Gambling. In 1902, according to this strange story in the "Excelsior," at the in- auguration of the Dusseldorf Exhibi- tion the Crown Prince made his first official appearance, He returned there' several times, dining . with the organisers' and playing heavily at the hussar officers' club. When the ex- hibition was about to close Mine. Sarah Berhardt came to Dusseldorf to make an appearance at the.local theatre. All the seats had been taken in advance, and it was stated that Krupp had retained a box for the Crown Prince, who - that morning bad arrived incognito as the. Graf , Von Meyenclorff. The Prince was accompanied by Count Eulenburg, .and that night was the guest of Herr Krupp, who gave a splendid dinner. Later in the even- ing the Crown Prince showed little inclination to' go to the theatre. "I don't want a French lesson," be said. Four of the party, the Crotrm Prince, Eulenburg, Krupp, and Max Dahl, went • around the town, going from tavern to tavern. "The Crown Prince did not seem to be amusing himself very much. At last Dahl said, "Sup, - pose we go to the' Charlottenstraese?" Krupp tried to disuade him, but the Prince said, "Why not?" To the Charlottenstr•asse they went, and entered a gaming `louse of evil, reputo. The same evening the police raided the house, but the Prince and his friends, after being identified, were allowed to go. A lieutenant named Loew suffered for the others, and the scandal came to, the imperial ears, Count Eulenburg was too powerful to be punished, and rd attack Dahl svould have been stooping too low There remained Herr Krupp. • Disappeared. . For a long time the Kaiser hat dreamt of lording it entirely over Essen, and had tried' to induce Krupp to "fake" certain materials with which he was supplying foreign countries, but the ironmaster would. not deceive his customers, The temptation was great. 11 Herr Krupp disappeared there would be only ono woman and" at Essen, and. they would be easily overcome. Herr Krupp vias given the choice of death or disappearance. One fine day he left for Capri. The two children at the head of affairs isle several times received the visit of an anonymous person, who always left Herr Krupp in a state of dejec- tion. • One day the ironmaster left for Austria, whets he bad a meeting with his cousin, Arthur Krupp, head of the great silver 'works at Bcrnclorf. It was at this' time that the news of Krupp's death was circulated.. The coffin left Capri, but Herr Krupp was no longer there. The older' members of the board of directors say between themselves that in America, under another name, the late ironinaeter leads a monotonous life. They also say that at the Breidenbacher . Motel in Dusseldorf, the Baroness Von,nencle and lies two daughters, Bertha' and Barbara Krupp, sometimes meet an old ma::- with gold -rimmed glasses, He has the appenrance of a man who aged prematurely, It is Herr has g p Y Krupp. . hatever the truth may be, it is W certain that the disappearance of the last male member of the Krupp fans, ily allowed the Kaiser to dominate at Beletn: It also allowed him to exercise his. will over the cannon kingdom and to deliver to other states artillery that was not as it should be. "Is Krupp dead?" flake the "Excel- sioi," It matters little; lie disap- pea rect in 3.902, the year when Ger- many began her active 9repartikionior the struggle which she huts waged Without mercy.