Word: graetz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the convicted ringleaders, Chief of Police Emmerich von Nadossy of Budapest and Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, stood up for sentence the courtroom became a pandemonium of sobs, groans and cries. Momentarily the representatives of the Bank of France, the civil plaintiff, experienced a qualm lest their instant lynching impended. Then Chief von Nadossy spoke...
Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz interrupted: "No! I implore the Court to hold only me responsible! Thank God there will always be Hungarians willing to do even more for our country than forge a few thousand French francs...
...Nardossy," queried the Chief Magistrate, Judge Toereky, "how did it happen that you conspired with Prince Ludwig Win-disch-Graetz? How did he ever dare to broach this stupendous plan of forgery to you, the Chief of Police of Budapest...
...into the nature of these "motives." Instead he called another prisoner, a dapper little man with his hair cut in the German fashion, a nervous but determined young man, who clenched and brandished a cane in one hand while he gesticulated with the other. This was Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, a descendant of the "Holy Roman Emperors...
...said Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz ; "this was no common crime, but part of a great patriotic fight .... I had not the honor to originate this gigantic scheme .... a circle, the members of which I shall not name, prepared it, and merely called on me for financial aid, which I gladly gave...