Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1912 — Prince Too Huge For Van [ARTICLE]

Prince Too Huge For Van

Bpecial “Black Maria” Built for^ Rajah’s Gigantic Son, Accuaed of Stealing Pearls. Paris. —Paris is convulsed with laughter because an Indian prince, who attended the coronation of King George and Queen Mary of England Is so bulky that he cannot enter the Paris black, maria, and the city council has been compelled to build a special police conveyance tor the' big browfi man from India. His name is Naushad All. and he is a member of the provincial parliament of Oudh and a nephew of Ralah Blr Mohammed Tabaddreg Raoul Kham of Jehangirabad. The reason why this mighty man of many distinctions has been connected with the black maria is because of his fondness for jewelry. A jeweler named Meyer sent him a rope of pearls for inspection, the prince having written: “Please let my secretary select jewels to the amount of $10,000.” The high sounding titles of Nan Shad All and of his uncle, the rajah; his presence at the British coronation, and the fact that he is Invariably accompanied by a giraffe-like servant seven feet high to Indian costume. threWthe usually suspicious jeweler off his guard. *The thinness of the servant and the largeness of his master have been brought out to most picturesque contrast, tor so devoted to the servant that be insisted on going to Jail with hts toaster. His family has served the prince’s family for 300 years.

It seems that as the prince was taking shinp at Marseilles without having paid for the jewels or returning them he was arrested. the' black maria. He is at least three times as big as the average Frenchman, sp on the request of his American lawyer, Frederick Attain, the city of Paris is forced to build a black maria of triple capacity for its pompous, princely, and most interesting prisoner.