PUNCHED A COUNT
UNWELCOME ATTENTIONS TO ENGLISHMAN'S FIANCEE. "If he had not acted in accOTdance : with the unwritten laws of honour in ■ England, he would have been con- j sidered a coward by his own countryI men." This was what the judge said at Carlsbad of an English film actor, Captain Charles Leven Lincoln, who punched an Austrian count for his attentions to the Englishman's fiancee. The scene in which Captain Lincoln, h's beautiful German fiancee, Fraulein Hilde Zimmermann, styled in the illustrated newspapers "the Queen of Fashions," and Count Hans Czernin, the son of a f ormer Austrian Foreign Minister, were involved, occurred in Pupp's, the most fashionable of Carlsbad's hotels. Captain Lincoln ■ was sitting with Fraulein Zimmermann when a note from the Count was handed to her asking her to meet him. Captain Lincoln read the note, and as the Count had discreetly dis- | appeared, went to his home the foli lowing morning and, after an ex1 change of words, struck him in the face under the eye. j The Gount brought a libel suit, but i Captain Lincoln was found not guilty.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 November 1931, Page 2
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