ATTACK ON A BARON

Shannon News, 12 January 1926, Page 4

ATTACK ON A BARON

UNIiUCKy VISIT TO WIFE. ASSAULTED BY HER RELATIVES A Vienna message says that the Baron Emir Taxis, formerly a dashing Hungarian cavalry officer, and now a racehorse owner has returned to v Vienna suffering from many wounds, sustained while visiting his wife at her castle at Hellerhof, on the banks of the Danube^'' The Baroness is a celebrated society beauty, and her first husband was a Czecho-Slovajkian Minister. She quar. relied with Baron Taxis a few months ! after marrying, and they separated. They met at Vienna, accidentally, last week and the Baroness invited her husband to Hellerhof. While walking in the park the wife's brother ssuddenly appeared, and abused and struck Taxis. Another man threw a sack over Taxis' head. He heard the voices of fiv e assailants; including his wife's father, and he was then mercilessly beaten, until he was left unconscious. He staggered to the. house of th e stationmaster, who- dressed the wounds. ■•' The Baron is prosecuting his wife and relatives for assault.