KLEPTOMANIA IN HIGH LIFE

Dunstan Times, Issue 1296, 31 December 1886, Page 3

KLEPTOMANIA IN HIGH LIFE

Berlin society is discussing with hated breath a case of kleptomania in high life. At a recent aristocratic nail a young countess dazzled every,hody present with a superb v parure of diamonds, but when she arrived at home in the morning she was aston isliel to discover that her diamonds had disappeared. A minute description of the jewels were published. The description of the jewels (ell into the hands of the maid of another countess', the wifeof ahigh official who perceived with great astonishment that her mistress wore a parure which corres ponded exactly with theoneadvertised She notified the police, but the authorities hesitatf d to follow that clue. U1 tiraately the chief ot the police called on the countess, who, when she saw the official enter her boudior, lost her nervesand produced the parure buttearfully pleaded she had not stolen them. She said she had seen the owner drop the diamonds in the robing-room, and then she, following a sudden and resistless impulse took them. Her husband has influential friends at Court, and it is probable that his efforts to hush the matter up will succeed. Prince Pascal de Bourbon, brothei of the ex-King of Naples, has just .figured in a Police Court on a charge of fraud, in giving a m -rtgage of lo.OOOdol upon his villa, which he had already mortgaged to its full value of 30,000 dol The Prince alleges that he received no more? consideration for the mortgage, but some wine which he sold for 10,000dol. The mortgagee tried to sell the villa and extort the full amount of the mortgage, but the Prince was acquitted on the ground that no intention to commit a fraud had been proven.