GERMAN FRINCE'S WIDOW.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 17 September 1915, Page 3

GERMAN FRINCE'S WIDOW.

SENT TO PRISON IN ENGLAND. A woman who claimed to be the wi ow, by morganatic marriage, of Prin Christian Victor of Sschleswig-H« stein, was sentenced at Marylebone three months' imprisonment in the se ond division for having failed to regi ter as an alien enemy.

The prisoner, who wore a velvet ce tume and a black straw hat, was d scribed as Guta Federicke Maria Cha lotte Freiherrin von Petersdorf, 37, a actress and novelist, of German natioi ality. living at Euston Road. Detective-Inspector Thomas Dugga said the woman claimed that her a leged marriage with Prince Christia Victor made her a Britsh subject. SI had made a detailed statement settin forth her claim.

Mr. M. C. Pyke, solicitor, pleadc guilty on behalf of the accused. B then gave evidence and produced h copy book, showing that after the a etised had consulted him in May la; year he wrote to the German Chance lor, Von Bethmann-HolJweg, and oil ers to obtain financial help for be also a certificate of the marirage. B received no reply to any of his letter The magistrate said that, sccordin to the woman's statement, the Germs Empress was one of the witnesses < the marriage. So far as he could gatl er, she had assumed the title Freiherri von Petersdorf without any justifies tion. Her story of a morganatic ma iage seemed to him impossible on t face of it. It took place, she sai when she was thirteen. He could n

imagine any marriage ceremony taMi place under the circumstances she me tioned; but. assuming it did tal place, that did not alter her natiom ity. She was a person who ought be under the observation of the poft<