Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1881 — How an Austrian Lieutenant Acquired a Fortune. [ARTICLE]

How an Austrian Lieutenant Acquired a Fortune.

A strange and romantie story reaches us from Olmutz, says the London Telegraph, having for its hero a young infantry Lieutenant named Pohl. be longing to an Austrian regiment, a * present quartered in that ancient gar 1

rfeoned town. It would appear that some twenty years ago or more, a General Prince Bus poll, accompanied by liis bride, to whom he had been married barely a month, happened to visit Olmuts in the poune of his Wedding tour. While sojourning in tbe principal hotel, the Princess was suddenly taken ill, and brought into tho world a healthy child of the male sex. For reasons that may be readily understood, the young couple resolved to conceal this event from their respective families, aud induced an Austrian officer to adopt'the iofant,under solemn promise that their secret should be faithfully kept by him during their lives. Pohl, the oflioer in question, brought up his adopted son to his own profession, and the lad has turned out a gallant and assiduous soldier. On the Bth of last May Pxiuce Ruspoil

died in Paris, and it is alleged that on his death bed he confessed the existence of a son in Olmutz, born in wedlock, but passing by the name of Pohl, who turns out to be the young Lieutenant above alluded to. As the greater Dart of the late Prinee’s property, valued at between £690,000 and £700,000, is strictly entailed upon his eldest son, it will naturally fall to lhe6hare of the fortunate youth, as well as the title, one of the most ancient and illustrious in Italy. He has, according to a leading Viennese journal, already received a communication from his brother, Prince Ruspoil, Jr., disinherited by this amazing discovery, informing him that thePnnce had indignantly refused to entertain a proposition, made to him confidentially by a renowned Italian brigand, to assassinate the long lost heir for the moderate consideration of £BO It is to be hoped that his highness will provide amply for a relative who has given him so striking and conclusive a proof of high minded disinterestness.