PRINCESS COMMITS SUICIDE.
SEQUEL TO LOVEJ ,AFFAIR ,
By Telegraph—Press Assoototion.—OopjrisM
Berlin! September 18. Tho Princess Sofia of oaxo WcimarEisonach committed suicide in. a bedroom at Heidelberg. Sho was found with a bullet wound in her The tragedy was tho result of a lovo affair with tho eon of tho head of the great Jowish banking Cm, Herr Hans fileiclu'oedor. Tho Grand Duko of SaxoWoimar refused his sanction unless the . princess resigned her rank. (Rec. September 20, 0.35. a.m.) Berlin, September 19. When Horr Hans Bleichrooder'a engagement to the Princess Sophia was an- i nowiood, tho Grand ' Duko of SaxeWeimar immediately denied it. Family, ?uarrcls resulted, Prince Wilhelm, tho 'rincess Sophia's father, feeling bound to support tho Grand Duko, although Herr Bleichroeder was a personal friend of the Kaisor, and his firm had financed Bismarck. Opposition was strengthened because tho Blcichroedera wcro Jews. Tho Princess's brothor, Count Ostheim, had married beneath his rank, and was in consequence dismissed tho army, and deprived of his titles, because ho owed l £50,000 to Berlin moneylenders.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 7
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172PRINCESS COMMITS SUICIDE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 7
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