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...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...
...fact that the Bank of France had long suspected the Hungarian-Fascist Albrechtists of being in some way connected with the French bank-note counterfeiting. It was now decided to make an exhaustive search of the 15 miles of natural tunnels in the rock upon which Windisch-Graetz Castle stands. The tunnels had once romantically housed the adherents of the famed Hungarian revolutionary Prince Francis Rakoczy. They might now have been unromantically degraded to the use of counterfeiters. The French detectives poked about with flashlights during many a weary night, found nothing...
...Chief Counterfeiter Gerce. "It was the stupidity of Prince Windisch-Graetz which ruined us. . . . I made the paper we used myself, from German pulp; and the first 20,000 notes which I produced were not successful. . . . Prince Windisch-Graetz, however, insisted upon having them passed, and of course they were detected. . . . Later I raised our paper and technique to such a pitch of perfection that my last notes will continue to pass current in France indefinitely without detection...